If you caught my Sizzix shows on Create and Craft TV last week, you might have heard me mention that I planned to do some crafting for myself at the weekend using the gorgeous Painted Birds die set.
I like to work a few months ahead with the birthday cards I send to friends, so my aim was to make enough cards to cover me until August!
This card with the little apertures was my favourite sample from the shows (but I couldn’t demo it there because the card shape die is from Studio Light, not Sizzix). Obviously, the way I craft for TV shows is a bit different than how I craft for myself because in real life we mix up the products don’t we?
I used a mixture of sentiments to go with the birds, (I’ll add links at the bottom of the post to all the products), but the sentiments are a Sizzix set called Variety Sentiments, and a Spellbinders set called Everyday Sentiments.
As well as birthday cards, I used the same design to make my dad’s Father’s Day card…
This was a good design for batch making, and also for using up card scraps, because you end up cutting from 5 different colours of card for the birds, that means you’ve basically got enough for 5 birds at a time which speeds it up considerably.
 Sizzix Big Shot Die Cutting machine Shop at: SSS | SZ | AZ | CS | SBC |
 Sizzix Opulent Card – Gold Shop at: SSS | SZ | CS | SBC |
 Sizzix Opulent Card – Rose Gold Shop at: SSS | SZ | AZ | CS | SBC |
 Spellbinders Everyday sentiments by Simon Hurley Shop at: SSS | SBC | SP |
 Sizzix Painted Birds die set Shop at: SSS | SZ | CS | SBC |
 Sizzix Variety Sentiments die set Shop at: SZ | CS | SBC |
Sharon Curtis 