Rockin' Robin

This weekend I'm away from home at a crafty retreat, and I've actually made a few cards! I find I need to do a few challenges to keep some sort of focus so I don't just sit here and drool.

This card started with the current Less Is More challenge to use little critters. I then took the current Freshly Made Sketches sketch:

 

and my new Rockin' Robin stamps from Clearly Besotted, because there's a row of three cute robins that needed to meet some ink.  To make my idea work, I rotated and flipped the sketch like this:

and here, finally, is my card:

First I layered up the papers and blew the whole Less Is More thing, but that didn't stop me. 

The Bokeh/dotted paper is supposed to be snow, but really, I just love the color of the paper. When I stamped the swirly music and the sentiment (love that font!), it turned out wider than the panel, but I declared that to be ART and went with it.

I stamped the row of robins on a separate piece of paper, colored them, then fussy-cut them, leaving a narrow strip with which to attach them to the sentiment strip.  It's not the cleanest solution, but I was NOT going to fussy-cut those feet. There's a piece of foam tape behind each robin to they're popped up.

I bought this set to use the big birds, so I hope to get to that later this weekend. Stay tuned!

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