Leaky Shed bird cage chippy with Maggi

Happy New Year everyone!!  Maggi here to share two of my favorite things; well really, make that 3 of my favorite things!

1.  Leaky Shed's birdcage chippy

2.  Marion Smith Designs Garment District paper collection

3.  My beautiful and ever so sweet spoo, Nika!

 I've covered the beautiful birdcage with Stampendous aged ivory embossing powder.  I love the look these powders give to chipboard.

I know, I use these embossing powders all the time! 

Here is the Leaky Shed birdcage complemented with flowers and greenery and a resin bird, of course!

I like to give my layouts dimension so I often pop up my layers.  In the next two photos you can see how I've popped up the layers by using thick cardboard on the first layer and much thinner cardboard on the next layers.  Cardboard is great for popping up your layers as you don't have to worry about the sag  that you sometimes get when you use  foam tape or pop dots.

Supplies:

Leaky Shed Studios Birdcage

 Core'dinations cardstock

Marion Smith Designs Garment District collection 

& Mad Tea Party Collection

 Stampendous aged Ivory embossing powder

Martha Stewart punch around the page

 Flourish Lace, Scallop 3 Dot;

 Spellbinders for Heartfelt Creations Bella Rose

 Prima Le Mia 571498 white flowers

Mixd Media Inx vintage, Distress walnut stain

 Lindy's Wild Honeysuckle Coral, Apline Ice Rose

 Flying Unicorn lace, Prima resin bird

Family Tree Words and Marion Smith Garment District

Maggi here to show you some great word chippies from Leaky Shed and on this layout I've used some from the Family Tree collection, "Families are Forever". I painted the chipboard pieces with Emperor's Gold Silks and then lightly brushed on a little Pink Grapefruit on the chippies and the flowers just to tie everything all together.

I used Marion Smith Designs newest collection, Garment District. It's full of vintage colors and images that I love so much! I even dug out my sewing machine to tie into the collection's title! I stamped here and there with some pink paint and coffee archival ink. If you look closely you can see that I used a doily mask and Lindy's mist.

Supplies:

Chipboard: Leaky Shed Studio Family Tree 

Marion Smith Designs Garment District: 

Prima Engraver fabric flowers, Prima Bellas, Petaloo velvet hydrangeas sienna,

Distress Walnut Brown, Archival ink coffee

Lindy's Winter Jasmine Gold  mist

TCW, Prima Lace Doily #3 masks

 Ayeeda Gesso

Splash of Color Silks Acrylic Glaze Pink Grapefruit, Emperor's Gold, 

Claudia Hellmuth Painterly Pink

I want to wish everyone that celebrate's Christmas a very Merry Christmas and a  wonderful day tomorrow.  I hope you are able to spend time with those you love!