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Craft Tutorial #15 - Little Black Bird Christmas Card

• Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 at 10:26 am

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Tutorial #15 Little Black Bird Christmas Card

Make this cute little bird, a creative way of using your round paper punch

You will Need: All items available at Ferngully Stamps

Round Paper Punch Medium

Dark olive card A5 folded in half

 Mat 1- Patterned Paper-8cm x 14.8cm- black bird and holy

Textured red card- 2 strips -2cm x 14.8cm and 1cm x 14.8cm

Adhesive

Double sided tape

Double sided foam

Edging scissors 

For the bird-

Dark olive card 6cm x 6cm

White card 5cm x 5cm

scraps of - Black, Red and Gold card

Follow instructions below to make this beautiful card

Step 1-  Body-Using your punch, punch out 1 black circle and put aside.

 Face-Punch out 1 red circle then put the red circle back into the punch almost all the way and punch making a pointy oval shape as shown.  This should be about half the size of the black full circle or  just under.

Tail- Punch a black circle and then put the circle back into the punch only a  quarter of the way and punch making a small pointy oval shape

Beak- Do the same as you did for the tail using the gold card

 Eye-Cut out a black circle and put a white circle in the middle for the eye or you could use a stick on dolls eye, in this example I have cut out from black and white polka dot paper. 

Step 2- Assembling the bird-

Apply adhesive the back of the red face and attach to one side of the black circle

 Step 3-Add the tail to the back of the bird and tilt up slightly and add the beak to the front

Step 4- Cut 2  thin strips of black card- approx 2cm and cut 4 small strips approx 5mm

attach 2 small strips to the bottom of one long strip, place them on an angle so they stick out like birds feet

Make 2 of these and attach to the bottom of the bird.   

Step 5-   This is what your bird should look like, you can have the face larger than this if you like as shown in the next step. 

Step 6- Centre & attach your white 5cmx5cm card onto the olive 6cm x6xm card and attach your bird to the center of the white card.

Step 7-Optional-

 trim one side of your patterned paper with edging scissors and attach to the front of the card as shown 

Step 8- Attach your 2 red strips of paper to left side of the patterned paper leaving a space between them a

s shown

Step 9- Using double sided foam attach your bird to the bottom left of the card, leaving about 1.5cm at the bottom as shown. 

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