Kathy's Waffle: Bird's Nest Basket - Spellblogger for Spellbinders

Hello!
Happy Monday to you
We didn't have as much snow as other parts of the UK, but thankfully even that has all gone now and things can get back to normal!
Or what passes for normal, round here!
I had a sudden moment of inspiration a couple of days ago! I'd used the gorgeous Spellbinders twiggy wreath die to make the card I posted on Friday when the lightbulb switched on, and I thought it would make a perfect project for my next Spellbloggers post

Once again I'm using dies from Lene Lok's Four Seasons range from Spellbinders. This time I've used two die sets; the Twiggy wreath and the Wreath Elements die sets and made something a bit different, but totally in keeping as our thoughts turn to Spring

Info:
I started off with a plain die cut circle of brown card adhered to a stronger chipboard circular base. Then cut lots of the wreath shapes in different shades of brown card and loads of leaves from the various leaf shapes in the Wreath Elements die set.
Then it was just a case of layering up the wreaht shapes and adding a few leaves in as I went. I made best use of the brown card by
cutting part-circles from the cut out centres left over when the wreaths were cut. I just arranged them around nest shape as I built it up
I used chipboard coloured with brown ink and cut into tiny pieces between the layers. I glued the chipboard to the underside of the leaves to hide them. You could use dimensional glue, or dark coloured foam pads instead.
I finished it off with a few real feathers inside the nest and poking through the sides.

Here are the Spellbinders die sets used this time

Four Seasons Wreath by Lene Lok

Shapeabilities Etched Dies

Wreath Elements; Four Seasons by Lene Lok

Shapeabilities Etched Dies

Platinum Die Cutting and Embossing Machine

Obviously the real finishing touch is to fill the nest with chocolate eggs - and I promise that I only ate one in the making of this post!

here is the card I made using the same two die sets, you can read
more about it HERE

That's it for this time,
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