Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Birdcage Ornament



This was my ornament that I made for tomorrow but I was too happy with it to wait until then. This looks really pretty in real life with all of the Dazzling Diamonds sparkle and it really does look like a birdcage. It was a bit hard to photograph it to do it justice.
I was making a lantern ornament with the strips the other day when this idea came to me. I used Brushed Silver cardstock cut in strips 5 1/2" x slightly narrower than 1/2" wide. The ends were secured with rhinestone brads. The bird is from the Sizzlits Birds & Blooms set hanging from silver cording. I stamped the flourish and flower from Patterned Pines in Bashful Blue and sponged edges. For the embellishment on the bottom to hide the brad prongs I used the Sizzix die cut Swirls Scribbles and covered it completely in Dazzling Diamonds. Supplies are by Stampin' Up.

5 comments:

rebecca said...

this is so creative...I love it.

Jean Fitch from jlfstudio said...

Beautiful Joanne, simply beautiful. Can't wait to try this. Thanks so much for sharing.

Mercedes Pineiro said...

This is awesome,great idea love it I will try it myself.

Jacquel said...

This is awesome Joanne! Lovely work & tfs!!!

JulieA said...

Joanne, this is gorgeous!!! How did you come up with that idea? I love it! I hope that I can find the time to make one of my own! I'd love to show it at my workshop tomorrow.