Pretty Cardinal

This pretty cardinal, or one just like him, hangs around our bird feeder daily.  Apparently he loves the sunflower seed we provide for him and his family.  I've enjoyed watching the female and young ones come and go but the male is magnificent looking.  This Kitchen Sink  Multi Step Clear Stamp Set is called Winter Cardinal and it really was a challenge for me to get it lined up on the paper but it turned out almost as beautiful as the real Cardinal in our back yard!  I'm always amazed when I use four different colored stamp pads how true to life my cards look.  Thank you Maria Colosimo  for selling stamp sets that turn out so beautiful.  It certainly makes the designer look professional! I wish that the picture showed off the designer paper better because it has copper foil leaves on it so I mounted the Cardinal on copper foil backing to match. The sentiment was taken from the Kitchen Sink Poinsetta Stamp Set. It really turned out nice, I think.

Recipe for this card include:

Color Recipe for the Cardinal:

Layer 1  - Stampin' Up Petal Pink

Layer 2 - Stampin' Up Poppy Parade

Layer 3 - Stampin' Up Cherry Cobbler

Layer 4 - Versafine Onyx Black

Color Recipe for Pine Branchess:

Layer 1 - Stampin' Up Tranquil Tide

Layer 2 - Stampin' Up Soft Suede

Layer 3 - Stampin' Up Shaded Spruce

Sentiment Stamped in Early Expresso

Paper used:

Stampin' Up Joyous Noel DSP

Stampin' Up Copper Foil paper

Stampin' Up Soft Suede Card Stock

Stampin' Up Stitched Labels Framelits 

Other members of the Kitchen Sink Crew include:

Maria Colosimo - Owner and Creator of Kitchen Sink Stamps

Kitchensinkstamps'weblog

Lynn McAuley - Confessions of a Left-Brained Stamper