Silhouette Cameo Birdcage birthday card

Hello everyone,

I hope you had a good weekend and are fortified for the week ahead. The current challenge at the Cameo Spotlight is a colour challenge and we are asked to use

Rich Red • Deep Orange • Harvest Gold

additional neutral colours allowed are: black, white and kraft.

I am still getting to know my Cam and had some fun making this aperture card using a birdcage cut from the Silhouette Store.

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 I cut the aperture in the base card and then used the offset feature to cut the orange frame for the hole (if you get what I mean). I cut a solid cage shape for the interior of the card and glued it on through the aperture to get proper placement. 

 I added a branch in kraft card and cut and stamped a couple of birds from a PTI die to sit on the branch. Next I cut the cage part and coloured it with harvest gold ink. This was raised on foam pads cut very thinly and the cage was placed over the birds. I inked the edges with red ink, added a bow and the sentiment finished it off.

This is how the card looks when it is closed. I would never have thought of using these colours together but I quite like how it turned out.

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs

Carol x