Musical Bird Birthday - Stampin' Up! Bird's Eye View

     I'm playing along with Seize the Birthday and their fun topping theme of of "make it musical".  I had to combine a bunch of different products to get this one to be musical because I don't have a musical theme stamp set that I could focus on.  But it is called a challenge for a reason!

  I started this one with a Very Vanilla thick base which I've used a lot lately since it's now kind of the autumn season and that seems to be the only time I use Very Vanilla with any regularity.  It's like my fall version of white for some reason.  During the rest of the year Vanilla just isn't crisp enough for me so I rarely use it unless matching a DSP.  But it works for now right?

  I pulled out the little music note stamp from the Sweet Songbirds set and stamped it on a narrow strip of Pool Party and paired it up with a strip from Let's Go Fishing DSP, a piece of Very Vanilla embossed with the Merry Melody embossing folder and then finally a strip of Joy of Christmas DSP which is kind of a woodgrain and music notes pattern.  I adhered these onto a square of Very Vanilla and adhered it to the card base.

   Since birds sing and make their own kind of music I decided to use one of the birds from Bird's Eye View as the focal image o go with the theme a little bit more.  It's stamped in Pecan Pie ink onto Very Vanilla and then colored in with Blends markers.  It's then fussy cut and popped up on a bit of twine and a Tree Rings Hybrid die cut that I had in my orphaned card parts bin.

  The sentiment also comes from the Sweet Songbird stamp set and is stamped in pecan Pie under the strips.

  Finally I added a few retired Pale Papaya gems (they always looked more yellow than orange so they work well with these colors.)

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  Thanks for looking!  Did you stamp today?

Stamps: Bird's Eye View, Sweet Songbirds

Ink: Pecan Pie, Pool Party

Blends: Pool Party light & dark, Daffodil Delight light & dark

Paper: Very Vanilla thick, Very Vanilla, Pool Party, Let's Go Fishing DSP, Joy of Christmas DSP*, Crumb Cake

Accessories: Tree Rings Hybrid dies/embossing folder, Merry Melody embossing folder, dimensionals, twine, gems (retired)