Today is National Bird Day and National Whipped Cream Day, so I made a card for both. I used the new Bird Banter stamp set to create the paper pieced birdie, and the Cupcake Cutout Framelits Dies and the new Shimmery White Embossing Paste to create the whipped cream. I think the plain white Embossing Paste may have been better, because the shimmery paste seems a bit too glittery for whipped cream. I’ve listed both in the product list farther down in this post.

I thought I was being quite clever, putting the bird on top of the whipped cream. Then a friend of mine saw the card and said it looked like the bird was on top of a pile of bird poo. But it isn’t – it’s whipped cream. Whipped cream, okay?

The card and envelope are from the Tutti Frutti Cards & Envelopes, on page 14 of the Sale-A-Bration Catalog. I used my Stampin’ Trimmer to cut a piece out from the card front, trim it down a little, then adhere it to a piece of Whisper Whit card stock glued to the inside.

Here’s what I made:

Here’s what I did:

Cut and scored with my Stampin’ Trimmer:

• front of the card cut 1/2″ from all four sides, to cut out a 4-1/2″ x 3-1/4″ rectangle
• 1/8″ cut from all four sides of the striped rectangle 
• Whisper White card stock (CS) cut to 5-3/8″ x 4-1/8″
• after the sentiment was stamped (see below) I trimmed it to within 1/8″ of the words on all four sides

Stamped with the Bird Banter stamp set:

• the bird image in Basic Gray ink onto three pieces of paper: 2 patterns from the Tutti Frutti Designer Series Paper (DSP) and a scrap of Whisper White CS
• party hat in Basic Gray ink onto a scrap of Whisper White CS
• sentiment in Bermuda Bay ink onto a scrap of Whisper White CS

Colored using Stampin’ Write Markers:

• party hat in Bermuda Bay
• bird’s head in Pool Party and Daffodil Delight

Cut using Paper Snips:

• full body of the bird from the Whisper White CS (I cut off the legs because they have sunk down into the whipped cream!)
• full body minus the head from the Real Red DSP
• wing from the Rich Razzleberry DSP
• party hat
• snipped the corners of the sentiment, after it was trimmed with the Stampin’ Trimmer

Cut using the Cupcake Cutouts Framelits:

• whipped cream shape from a scrap of Whisper White CS

Assembled the card:

• 5-3/8″ x 4-1/8″ Whisper White CS glued around the edges to the inside front of the card base
• striped rectangle adhered to the Whisper White CS with Foam Adhesive Strips. I put a piece along each edge and a few in the middle
• applied embossing paste to the whipped cream die cut with a Palette Knife, then set aside to dry for a few minutes
• three bird pieces glued together
• whipped cream glued to the card front
• bird glued above the whipped cream
• hat glued over bird’s head
• sentiment adhered with Stampin’ Dimensionals

Here are today’s colors:

You can click on each one to see all the products that come in that color!

Here’s what I used:

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