In thinking about what we thought might be fun as a focus feature for this month's "CP Creative Weekly", we turned to Pretty Party's soft spoken friend, Blue Bird. This sweet feathered creature captures the delight of just about every person she meets. She's also as pretty as can be, and the perfect shade of eggshell blue. So, we put our designers to the challenge of finding her a home, layouts, cards, boxes, wherever...
To start us off, Rahel Menig shows what it takes to create a little birdie album with wings and a note of "tweets"...
Today, I'm super excited to share with you a tiny little tutorial on how to make a cute birdie album! I hope you enjoy it!
Draw a shape on a piece of scrap paper, that looks somewhat like a cute little birdie. Remember, that you want enough space to be able to write little tweets or quotes, so make the body of the birdie big enough. Bonus, this will make your bird shape look even cuter ;)
Cut out your pattern and assemble your paper. Clip them together and use your pattern to draw the shape on your pretty paper. Cut out the bird. If you have difficulties with the thickness, simply divide the amount of paper in half and do the step twice.
Next, if you have a sewing machine, sew together the bird by its tale. I started a few times to get that 'feather look' from the excess thread. If you don't have a sewing machine use your staple or a brad/eyelet!
Now you got your little birdie album all done :D I wanted to make my bird look like it was holding the banner, so I drew and cut out a little wing for it and hot glued it to the front.
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"If you could find a home for Crate Paper's Blue Bird, where would it be?"
It truly can be in any crafty context as long as it involves the idea of "birds". How might you go about the idea of basing a project's theme from that of the very cute and adorable, blue bird? Would you tuck her in a cage, dress her up with paint/glitter, and parade her with flowers and ribbon? Tweet your ideas in the comment section of today's post for a Pretty Party prize pack to be given away this Friday, April 27th. Make sure to have your comment secured and submitted by Thursday, 8:00pm Central Time - Good Luck & Happy Monday!
the blue bird would be a sweet theme for a baby shower (boy OR girl!)-- especially if it was a surprise... "a little birdie told me..." birds and flowers could decorate the refreshment table, there could be bird-applique onesies for the baby, there could be garlands with birds for decorations...
Posted by: Natalie (QSOgirl) | April 23, 2012 at 06:26 AM
That album is ADORABLE! I would definitely use the bird on some layouts of my 19 month old. She is all about birds now. We'll be eating breakfast and she'll scream "BIRD!" She'll open up a book (which is totally not about birds) and she'll scream "BIRD!" So the blue bird would be very fitting for her current 'bird' stage. It think they would make a very cute mobile too.
Posted by: Miriam Prantner | April 23, 2012 at 07:00 AM
I would make a blue bird garland to string across the ceiling in my daughter's room.
Posted by: Leah | April 23, 2012 at 08:13 AM
Soooooooooo sweet!! I loveeee this!! And I loveeeeeeeeee your handwriting!
Posted by: Julie Tucker-Wolek | April 23, 2012 at 08:15 AM
I would make a bunch of bluebirds and use them on a layout about spring and hope. Maybe even hide journaling about hopes for the coming months under the wings.
Posted by: julie e | April 23, 2012 at 08:18 AM
I think blue bird belongs on a super cute bird house or in a bird cage. Or maybe somehow out in the garden.
Darling little book!
Posted by: Court's Crafts | April 23, 2012 at 08:42 AM
I would make the blue bird a little scene out of patterned paper and frame it sans glass. You could also tuck a little mini calendar under the wing for a cute and functional decoration!
Posted by: Heather V | April 23, 2012 at 08:48 AM
Perfect blue bird for my Spring Birthday layouts! Thanks for the chance to win!
Posted by: JustYolie | April 23, 2012 at 10:12 AM
Very cute idea! I'm a bit intimidated by albums, but I think I could do something like this! Thanks for sharing!
Posted by: Denise Parcells | April 23, 2012 at 10:13 AM
I would put stickles on the bird and put flowers on
Posted by: Caro | April 23, 2012 at 10:13 AM
so cute! love that cute blue bird! would be perfect on my layouts!!!!
Posted by: Danielle Higginbottom-Brown | April 23, 2012 at 10:14 AM
I would dress her up with buttons, ribbon and glitter...I would also make it a love letter (one of three) to my children, to tell them, that, although, life is hard, and that they may not always agree with me, that without a doubt, without hesitation, there is nothing, and nobody, that is more important, more valuable to me than them. Than, seal it with a kiss, probably put some money in it, so I know they opened it! HA!!!
Drop it off in the mail, and flutter to them on the wings of the UPS!
Posted by: Roxanne | April 23, 2012 at 10:16 AM
Love this mini album! I could use a couple little blue "love" birds in the scrappy plans for my wedding (little mini's with our engagement pictures for each table) adorable!
Posted by: Amanda Molter | April 23, 2012 at 10:20 AM
I would like to make and laminate an alphabets worth of birds in different colors. This would help my boys learn their alphabet along with colors and sorting. Birds are a lot cuter than boring rectangles!
Posted by: Sara Rusek | April 23, 2012 at 10:23 AM
That cute little blue bird would be perfect in my son's room. He has a banner above his bed where we hand art work and pictures. He is also into animals so a cute little bird with a great 'tweet' aka message, would be really cool!
Posted by: KellyG | April 23, 2012 at 10:37 AM
I would make a bunch of bluebirds and use them on a layout about spring and hope. Thanks for the chance to win!!!
Posted by: Ross Plata | April 23, 2012 at 10:38 AM
Lots of great ideas! The bird mini would make a really cute wedding card too. Write different sentiments about marriage and weddings, some funny, some sage, and obviously something heartfelt from you to the couple. I have a couple of weddings this summer, this may have to be lifted into a project for one of them! Thanks for the idea.
Posted by: JessicaA | April 23, 2012 at 10:41 AM
Wow those are sooooo TWEET!!!! I love them! I am going to make some of those for my spring cards!
Posted by: Janet | April 23, 2012 at 10:53 AM
i love the little bird book! i am in the process of planning our wedding, so i can see the little blue bird being used as part of the venues decor - how cute that'd be! :)
Posted by: jackie radu in CT | April 23, 2012 at 10:54 AM
The little bird would make an adorable lunch note pad to put love notes to my daughter in her lunchbox with a different note each day. So "tweet"! Thanks for sharing!
Posted by: Debbie | April 23, 2012 at 10:59 AM