Latch Card

I saw this Latch Card cut and layout on Split Coast Stampers. It was fun to look at my stamp sets and see what I wanted to create. The nice part about these cards is the little circle becomes part of both the front and the interior of the card.
The top card uses the Nuts About You stamp set and the Picture This set for the inside expression. I really wanted to use the Nuts About You with the bird and bird nest for this card but it wasn't quite tall enough to fill the space so I added the Garden Green grass made with Fringe Scissors to the base.

The bottom card uses the Pleasant Poppies stamp set with the moth from Nature Walk stamp set. The expression on the inside comes from Butterfly Basics stamp set.

Linen Thread Bird Nest

This is a CASE from Stamping School. I had to change the direction of my layout a bit as I was using a retired bird image from the Nature Walk stamp set. And I used some retired Dusty Durango Designer Series Paper. You know when that color came out I didn't care for it; now I wish it was still available. Oh well! I've combined it with Pool Party and Crumb Cake. That color trio just made me think of robin's and spring time. We've had a bit of cold weather again. Blah!
The bird's nest is essentially made by wrapping linen thread around two fingers several times and then adhering to the card. Then after you've fussy cut the bird adhere it on top with a dimensional. I used the discontinued Blendabilites to color my bird but think if I did it again I'd get better robin look by using markers. Live and learn!