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<\/a>I started with a corrugated 5.5″ x 5.5″ card base, the vertical stripes of which I thought would echo the bird cage bars nicely. I dry brushed on some white acrylic paint mixed with Plaid Folk Art Extreme Glitter acrylic paint to softened the kraft brown and add a little\u00a0shimmer. Then I cut a 5″ x 5″ and a 4″ x 4.5″ piece from the plain parts of the designer paper, distressed the edges with my Prima Comfort Distressing Tool<\/a><\/span>, and inked the edges with Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Vintage Photo<\/a><\/span>\u00a0to create some mats.<\/p>\nTo\u00a0add more\u00a0texture, I used the scraps of the designer paper with an old Prima Doily Die (the one I used is retired, but there is a similar one by Spellbinders available HERE<\/a><\/span>) to die cut some doily parts to tuck in between the matting layers. There were also some pale green swipes on the designer paper too so I cut around a couple of those to create layering banners. Lastly I bunched up\u00a0some metallic gold DMC thread and tucked that behind the bird cage image for a little extra touch of whimsy.<\/p>\n The following is a video share of this card:<\/p>\n<\/a>I fussy cut out the large image of the birds in the bird cage and added some Ultra Fine Flower Soft in Raspberry Fizz to the flower images. I used this image as the main focal point and embellishment for the card front. I also cut the part of the designer paper with the butterflies generally into a 5″ x 5″ size, fussy cutting around the tips of the butterfly wings so they could “hang” off the edge of the paper and add some interest. I used this butterfly paper for the inside lining of the card.<\/p>\n