Bird inspired....

Last Spring while at my favorite home decor store, Nell Hill, I purchased this hanging wire bird cage. Dawn has one too and Nichole liked them so much we shipped one to her for her birthday! I immediately fell in love with it because birds are *my thing*. It lays almost flat against the wall and has clothespins for hanging stuff on it.

I rounded up some of my vintage bird prints and other botanical type prints and created a big collage of sorts on my dining room wall. I'm searching for the perfect, weathered, crooked branch to hang horizontally across the top of it all.

Here's how it all comes together with my dining room table. I'm also searching for a new paint color for the dining room..something that will make my collage just *pop*.

I hung this fern wreath on my bird cage and put a vintage looking bird print behind the bird cage.

Then I hung on little nests with eggs and other bird related stuff.

On my little shelves, I placed a painted, metal bird feeder.

And in my 3 tiered basket, I grouped all my egg nests together. I have found that by grouping like items together, it makes more of a decorating statement than just place a nest here and there around the house. Less stuff to pick up when you're dusting too. :)

So with that, I was totally inspired to create some cards with My Cute Stamps set called Ashley's Blossoms. The bird cage in this image is just like mine!
I stamped all the images onto subtle K & Company patterned paper so that the cards would stay soft looking but still have some nice detail.
Just a touch of pretty twill ribbon and some scalloped punched edges finishes off this card.

For my next cards, I used the branch image along with my bird cage.

I used pink chalks to add some soft color to the flowers on the branch....maybe to look like cherry blossoms?

Sentiments are from Papertrey Ink. I used more of the scalloped patterned paper snippets, some lace ribbon and vintage buttons to finish off the bottoms of my cards.

Soft and pretty, I love them!