SSS To the Moon Release Birds, Take 1

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There are several bird dies in the new To the Moon release, and I'm completely smitten with them, so this week is 'bird' week and I'll be sharing a card featuring each of the new birds.

I think this Layered Owl might just be my favorite of the bunch.  I really like the folk art feel to him.  I die cut him from white cardstock, and then colored him with Copics using Warm Grays.  

I wanted a more subtle background that he and the sentiment would pop against, so I started with a piece of Soft Stone cardstock, inking it using my Stepped Back Blocks stencils.  For this background, I used just two of the four stencils, the one with the entire pattern, and the one with the small squares.  The entire background was inked first with Altenew Misty Morning ink, and the small squares with Cloudy Sky.

I added a gray mat and adhered the background to my card base.

The owl was popped up with foam tape as was the sentiment, from the All About You set.  This set was released previously, but there are coordinating dies now, and I'm SO HAPPY about that.  Also, if you aren't following me on Instagram, you might want to head over there (@mprantner) because I'm giving away this stamp set over there.

To finish things off, I dug way back into my stash of wood veneers.  These are Studio Calico hearts.  They are normally a little darker, but I thought they were a bit too dark, so I rubbed some white pigment ink over them to soften them up.

That's all for me today.  Come back tomorrow to check out another of the new bird dies!