Set of Winter Bird Cards by Ellen Haxelmans

If you like birds, you will love this gorgeous set of cards today by Ellen! She created a card featuring each of the bird images in our new Winter Birds Stamp Set! She created this collection of cards using similar elements but tweaking each design to show how you can make similar yet unique creations! What a beautiful collection of projects. Continue reading to see the details on each card below! 

For the first card, Ellen featured the Cardinal from the Winter Birds Stamp Set. She colored the image of the bird and branch using copic markers and cut the images out using the coordinating Winter Birds Die Set. She also added in some holly leaves from on the branch using the Poinsettia Blooms Stamp Set. She layered this over a lovely distress inked sky and embossed the "Season's Greetings" sentiment onto the sky using our Ornamental Wishes Stamp Set. To add a little whimsy she added in some stars from the Cosmic Newton Stamp Set too. 

The second bird card by Ellen features the Nuthatch image from the Winter Birds Stamp Set.  Just like the previous card, she colored the image of the bird, branch and berries using copic markers and cut the images out using the coordinating Winter Birds Die Set. For this card she chose a lighter blue background color behind the bird and added a bit of snow to the background panel using our Petite Snow Stencil. She also used our Frames & Flags Die Set to cut out the stitched, rounded edge rectangle. The sentiment is from our Poinsettia Blooms Stamp Set.

On third card by Ellen she goes back to a darker blue background like her first card and features the Chickadee image from the Winter Birds Stamp Set. She colored the image of the bird and branch using copic markers and cut the images out using the coordinating Winter Birds Die Set. She added in a little piece of pine from our Poinsettia Blooms Stamp Set and an acorn from the Autumn Newton Stamp Set. she also added in a few snowflakes on vellum from the Winter Birds Stamp Set.  She embossed the sentiment onto the sky using our Ornamental Wishes Stamp Set. She also used our Frames & Flags Die Set to cut out the stitched, rounded edge rectangle. 

For the last card, Ellen featured the Blue Jay from the Winter Birds Stamp Set. She colored that lovely bird using copic markers, adding such gorgeous detail with dots and color blending! She cut the bird, branch and berries out using the coordinating Winter Birds Die Set. On this card she created a fun sun in the background using our Sunscape Stencil. The sentiment is from the Winter Birds Stamp Set and she added in some music notes from the Llama Delivery Stamp Set too. Again, she used the our Frames & Flags Die Set to cut out the stitched, rounded edge rectangle. 

If you love these cards by Ellen, don't forget you can visit her over at her blog Crafty Ellen to see more of her beautiful creations!