Birdcage Card

I'm afraid I haven't been doing much in the way of crafting recently as the weather has been so nice and I have been out and about alot!!!

Here is a card that I made using the fabulous Tim Holtz Bird in a Cage diecut, kindly sent to me by Claire over at What Shall I Make Today  - pop over and see some of her fantastic creations.

This card was made for my brother and his wife for their wedding anniversary.

I coloured the cage using a gold promarker and then I heat embossed it using gold powder with a little bit of black to create a gilded effect.  I then attached some antique gold chain to the bottom of the cage and to the top.  For the bird I used a sponge with pink distress ink and edged it with ink as well.  I then mounted it onto a mat made using Nesties labels 1.  I used papers from a wedding set of papers which I think were from Papermania.  The vine leaves were cut using a Sizzix die and I used some paper roses to decorate.  I also cut out my brother and his wife's intial and stuck this onto the mat to personalise it.  I decided not to use a sentiment as I felt there was enough happening on the card.

I really love this card and think that it is probably one of my best cards!!  It's the first time that I've tried heat embossing as well so I was impressed with that technique and will use it again.