Use Your Craft Stash - Bird Box

Hello! Been a few days without blogging over the Easter weekend. Was so beautiful, and I spent most of it in the gardening tackling the ivy situation.  So, it seems quite apt that this weeks theme for Use Your Craft Stash is Gardens and Gardening. We are looking for creations of any kind that have a garden theme - and that means not just flowers. We want to see trowels, pots, seeds, bird houses, watering cans, wellies etc.

I have really gone into my stash for this one. Many years ago - I don't even remember when - Hunkydory had a Little Tweets collection, which included some pop out and make 3D bird cages and bird houses. I don't know that I ever used either (although I have vague recollections of cutting up one of the bird cages to use flat on a card).  Anyway, I thought it would be fun to use one of the bird houses as the base for my creation. These photos show views of all the sides.

The Birdy Box was really easy to make - especially as I still had the instructions with it. 

To decorate the sides, I used several different sheets from Hunkydory's Little Book of Garden Treasures which I have had for well over a year. I used the box itself as the template for cutting the pieces. 

I then used additional copies of the sheets to fussy cut layers for each side.

And then stuck the sides together. 

I then turned to the roof - at which point, I realised that the large blue tit was going to be in the way of putting the roof on - so I had to remove it and attach it to the roof instead.

The wood effect paper is printed from Crafter's Companion Monthly Downloads - May 2018 - Spring Floral. The edges were inked with Weather Wood Distress Oxide.

I wanted a few flowers to add to the roof, so headed to my flower stash. Lots of choice of bought flowers - both cheap and expensive - paper and fabric. And others that I have cut out for projects and never used. 

And it was amongst these I found some blue and yellow die cuts perfect for layering for this project.

These were stuck onto the roof, and onto one side of the box.  I really enjoyed making this - and am looking forward to seeing what others come up with from their stash.

I hope you are all staying safe. Take care,

Cxxx