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| Garden Pop Up Card |
Hi friends though I stay in Bangalore which is a busy metropolitan city we are lucky to have a home away from the hustle and bustle of usual city life!
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| Garden Pop Up Card |
Birds are regular visitors to our home not only because of the fruit and vegetable garden my hubby grows but because our darling doggies [Snowy, a Lhasa apso and Goldy, a cocker spaniel] let the birds drink and eat right from their dishes!
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| Snowy and Goldy |
And as you can see from the picture above of our doggies eating from one bowl [ yeah they never ever fight!!], they are rather messy eaters and the birds literally have a buffet spread everyday!
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| Garden Pop Up Card |
Now coming back to my card I used a special
twist up pop up mechanism to pop up parrots on the center of my card and added butterflies and yellow flowers galore to my garden!
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| Garden Pop Up Card |
The yellow butterfly is a Hero arts stamp heat embossed and colored with Distress Inks and I added a green and golden twine trail to it!
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| Garden Pop Up Card |
I love Poppy Stamps dies and here I have used 2 of my favorite dies to create the lattice and hanging vines for my garden!
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| Garden Pop Up Card |
In the picture above you can see how the pop up mechanism is . It's a rather tricky mechanism which I learnt from a book on Pop Up Cards. I have seen a die for this type of Pop Up Card on my friend Alice's blog .
Here is the short video showing the pop up mechanism.
And sharing a few pictures which inspired my card ...... the photo below is the view from my window and you can see a lone parrot relishing the Sapota fruits!
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| Parrot on Sapota tree |
The picture below was taken after a few minutes ...and can you guess how many more feathered friends joined the feast....
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| Mynah Birds and Parrots on Sapota Tree |
Hehe yeah there are 3 parrots and 2 mynahs!! What a delight they were to watch!
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| Lilies in our garden |
And I cant resist showing off my hubby's Lilies!
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| Bee eater |
And that is the "Bee eater" , yes quite a ferocious sounding name but such a beautiful cute bird and a common visitor to our locality!
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| Spring Onion |
And the picture above is from our vegetable patch...its the flower of the
spring onion plant and below is the more artistic version of it taken by hubby [ I dont have the blurring background trick level of photographic skills!]
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| Spring Onion |
I hope you enjoyed the peek into my garden and reading about our garden visitors!
Supplies : Dies : PoppyStamps Meso background ,Poppy Stamps Weeping Willow Branches Lifestyle Crafts Nesting Circles , Memory Box Spring Border Sizzix- Hero Arts Stamp- Die Set Flowers and Butterflies 657773
Papers : DCWV Mariposa
