Bright & Sunny Happy Mail

Good morning! Heather here this morning. Today I have this bright and sunny card, perfect for sending some happy mail to a special friend! I love the cheeky little bird in its nest on top of the mailbox!

I started off by using some distress inks in Scattered Straw, Dried Marigold, and Abandoned Coral, I used my new Distress Ink Blending Brushes – love how they worked! I added some splashes of water to react with the ink and add some texture – looks like sparkles! I also stamped my sentiment from Encouraging Greetings to fit in the window of what I was using for my shaker element.

I stamped the mailbox and large bird from the new Happy Mail stamp set, and then a little nest and tiny bird from an oldie but goodie, Birdie Friends. I cut them each out with their coordinating dies.

Here are the Copic markers I used to color the images up – I picked bright sunny colors to match my distress ink background.

I used Storybook 1 Dies – the FIRST in the fun series of Storybook Dies that Pretty Pink Posh has released- to cut my window for my shaker. I trimmed the panel slightly smaller than my card front, and backed the window with acetate.

I added foam around the window, then filled it with the beautiful new Sparkling Clear Jewels– one of my new favorites for shaker cards! They are so pretty!!!

I added another layer of acetate to the back of the shaker element, then adhered it onto my card front over the ink blended portion. Then, adhere all the colored images in place over the shaker!

I ended up with an ink smudge (oops!) on the front of my white panel – why does that ALWAYS happen on the white places?! No problem though- it was easy to cover up with a few Ivory Jewels scattered on the front. An excuse for more sparkle and bling is always a good idea, don’t you think?

Now I want to try to make this same design with different colors – I think nice cool greens and blues would be fun, don’t you think?

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Have a wonderful day!