Swirly birds - seriously addictive!

With the massive catch up I have to be anywhere near up to date I am going to post smaller images illustrating slight variations of design, showing my complete inability to reproduce something twice ;-)

I love flowers always, but the stylised roses of the Swirly Bird stamp and matching die set give a perfect lattice work for the rose scattering, a great use for off cuts!

Cardstock: Old Olive, Whisper white

Inks: Old Olive, Garden Green, Melon mambo, Peach Peekaboo, Flirty Flamingo and of course Sweet Sugarplum.

True to form I am always playing around with the possibility of doing little work for great design, and contrary to popular belief it's due to time constraint rather than laziness ;-)

With the new in colours (2016-2018), this colour combination is very complimentary as seen here . . .

. . . where I have used Peach Peekaboo Print for the central rose, outer rose with the die cut in Flirty Flamingo and then cut the leaves in Emerald Envy, and Sweet sugarplum for small rose print and sentiment, et voila!

For the next spot the difference we also have a mash up on the stamp set front ;-)

As you can see, although similar, when you're 14 you need a little more glimmer and sparkle!

Stamp sets: Build a Birthday, Sassy Salutations, Birthday Blossoms

Cardstock: Black glimmer, Basic Black, Rich Razzleberry, Sweet sugarplum and various pinks from my stash ;-)

As a finale my favorite incarnation of the Swirly birds an excuse for my love of trees.

I have used Old Olive for the number 8 tree shape the Tree Builder Punch for the trunk, birds and flowers, with the bunting from the Balloon framelit dies - extremely handy for names of 5 letters ;-)

Keep on crafting, GenGen xxxx