Use a Flourish to Create a Branch!

Memory Box has several beautiful flourish stamps and birds, and I thought I would try and combine the two for fun!  So, I grabbed my stamps and my Rhubarb Tart papers and got to work!

To create my "branch," I stamped the Memory Box Grandiose Border stamp {E1038} onto kraft colored paper, and then I cut it out.  I mounted my "branch" to a piece of corrugated cardboard to give it a "rough" look.

Then I stamped my bird onto the same kraft colored paper and colored in my bird with my Copic markers.  I added a Memory Box jewel sticker for the bird's eye.
 
For my card base, I used a Memory Box Meadow notecard {22026}.  I then trimmed one of the beautiful green papers from the Rhubarb Tart pack and rounded the corners of both the patterned paper and notecard.  Next, I took another piece of patterned paper and tore it to fit the card.  I made it slightly larger than the cardboard piece so that you could see the contrasting paper.  Then I set the bird on the branch, added some hemp, and there you have my completed card.
 
 
Papers:  Memory Box Co. Rhubarb Tart and Meadow notecard (22026), PTI
Stamps:  Memory Box Co. Grandiose Border (E1038), Memory Box Co. Swirl Bird (C1047)
Stamp Ink:  Colorbox Fluid Chalk dark brown and creamy brown
Embellishments:  hemp from Hobby Lobby, Copic markers Y21 and Y26, Memory Box Co. jewel stickers sparkling diamond, Dymo labeler

I hope you enjoyed this, and you really should try using a flourish as a branch!  Fun, fun!  Thanks for stopping by, and have a blessed Tuesday!

Comments

[Stephanie]

What a cute card!! What a great use for flourish stamps. I have several and never know what to do with them. Now I do. Thanks!

[Jennifer]

Love this! Great idea to use the flourish this way.

[Karen Jorgensen]

Great idea for flourish stamp..love the look of this card.

[shelly bobrowski]

what a beautiful card! i really love the use of the corrugated cardboard. if i didint already love the memorybox line your use of them would do the trick. :)