Birds flyin' high...

... you know how I feel...

OK, let's continue. This is the second card for my friend's Dad (see: previous post).

This time the idea was to decorate the '65' number, which I generated in MS Word. I made the frame using my 'blending tool' (a piece of kitchen sponge LOL) and distressing ink. 

The '5' has two birds on it: one on a twig and one sitting in the nest. The 'egg' is a tiny pom-pom. There are also three buttons, as three is a mythical (magical) number: you know: Holy Trinity, Three Musketeers, three wishes for the Golden Fish... LOL

The '6' has one bird on it, and there are some feathers and a twine.

The birds are being cut from the scrapbook sheet I bought lately via internet. They were too pale, I had to doodle the lines with a brown pen. I popped them out a little with a 3D tape. I used the twine to wrap the number and tie the feathers (those white traces is a wet glue, it goes transparent when dry, I was in a hurry while making those pics).

The flower is made of two, and they come from some disassembled decoration. They were originally pale-pink, but I inked every second petal with distressing ink.

You can find this card in the following challenges:

http://cutiepiechallenge.blogspot.com/2012/08/challenge-25-borders-and-frames.html
http://craftybootschallenges.blogspot.com/2012/08/tweet-tweet.html 
http://thecraftypad.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/twine-crafty-pad.html 
http://kaboodledoodles.blogspot.com/2012/08/challenge-134-tribute-to-someone-older.html 
http://thepoodlesparlour.blogspot.com/2012/08/winged-things.html 
http://paperandsuchonline.blogspot.com/2012/08/wings-n-things-challenge.html 
http://mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2012/08/challenge-186-milestone-birthdays.html 
http://lilredwagon.blogspot.com/2012/08/well-i-certainly-owe-all-of-you-and.html 
http://divasbydesignchallenge.blogspot.com/2012/08/challenge-50-lets-celebrate.html

Don't forget to join my DT teams in the wonderful challenges taking place this week.

We are having a CHILD'S B'DAY challenge at

 

and

a SUMMER SCENE challenge at

 

If you think a little, it's easy to combine those two!

Don't miss the opportunity to win a price!