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Birdhouse Shrines & Tiny Easter Eggs + Birds Collage Sheets on SALE!
Filed under Collage Sheets, Easter, Fairy Garden, Miniatures, Nichola Battilana, Rhonda Secrist Thomas, Shannon Cooper
I’ve brought back the Mini Birdhouse Shrine (and there’s flurry of new nests & eggs below plus 2 contrasting projects as inspiration).
Speaking of inspiration… you may not know that the shrine was inspired by the Simple Things House Nichola Battilana (at far right). So there’s another idea for a sweet early spring project! (Sorry but this project is ages old and all the papers and paper flowers in it have long since sold out… but there are lots of flowers and images on sale below.)
Back to the Mini Birdhouse Shrine. First up is The Dark Shrine by Shannon Cooper: there’s a big change of style! Note that the Loopy Chipboard Scroll Corners Shannon used as roof trim is also back in stock today. Here’s a bit from Shannon’s blog post as intro:
The Mini Birdhouse Shrine fit nicely on top of two Window Boxes with Gothic Facades with room left over for a perimeter of black and red roses.
Most everything was painted black, but a collage sheet image was glued to the back to lighten things up a bit.
Aside: I started laughing when I read that bit, as the collage sheet image that is “lightening things up” shows a woman with her head in her hands. weeping over a fallen knight.
Great job, Shannon! So clever to use 2 of the window boxes as a shrine base! Read more and see more photos (with a tutorial!) on Shannon’s blog post or view the supply list.
NEXT, a whole different look and feel: Enchanted Dreams by Rhonda Secrist!
Time for a little escape to my back woods. I noticed a little girl there the other day, having a wonderful enchanted dream with some robins in a Mini Birdhouse Shrine. The moss has grown up all around it, making it very cozy. Warm on a rainy day and cool on a hot day. That is why I love my woods so much. A quiet escape, despite the thousands of 17 year cicadas that are taking over soon.
Using the Spring Green Lichen Mix made it super easy to cover all of the bird house edges and also helped to make an extra cozy nest. It can be found on the Alpha Stamps web site as well as other “ground” coverings like the Green Turf Grass I used and more. The extra bonus is that the moss growing at the bottom of my tree is almost a perfect match with the others that I used.
The variegated rose buds Rhonda used are also back in stock (in a slightly different color combo). Read more and see more photos on Rhonda’s blog post or view the supply list.
Eggs! (And nests!)
There’s a new Tiny Egg Carton! A tiny little (1:12 scale) version of an egg carton (laser-cut and scored from tan cardstock — including the insert for dividers).
Shown at far right with Miniature Eggs and beads from a new 4mm Matte Easter Eggs Bead Mix (some of the blue beads from that mix are also shown below in the new Tiny Bird Nest).
BONUS: I made a tiny vintage egg carton label sized for the lid! Just save the jpeg at left.
More NEW or Back-in-Stock Supplies
More paper flowers for spring! See the mix of pink tiny roses at right: that’s a combo of Pink Cream Variegated, Medium Pink, and the new Soft Pink (and all are included in the sale)!
See all the new & back in stock items.
Birdhouse Shrines SALE
Nice! That photo at right shows a fun collage by Jeanne Draachreider. I resurrected a few parrots Jeanne used in a new Parrots & Peacocks Collage Sheet (included in the sale — plus some more photos of Jeanne’s bird/human mash-ups are on that page)!
Over 100 items are on sale, including:
– all the new & back-in-stock items,
– the supplies from Shannon’s The Dark Shrine artwork
– the supplies from Rhonda’s Enchanted Dreams artwork
– and ALL of the Birds Collage Sheets!
Note that collage sheet section is BIG! And since it includes owls, ravens & flamingos there’s lots of Halloween and Alice in Wonderland themes, too.
There’s a new AUTOMATIC DISCOUNT for an extra 25% off the listed prices! You’ll see the discount in your cart — no code required!
The sale ends WEDNESDAY NIGHT, March 26th at midnight PST.
See the artwork supplies sale collection here! (It also includes the new items.)
And don’t forget the separate Birds Collage Sheets collection is also on sale (the highlights below are from that group)!
