I am continuing to celebrate with Shery Russ and her Stamplorations crew (5 year birthday, Congrats Shery!) I was inspired by Suzanne's lovely card here. As is usually the case, my card morphed dramatically as I created!
For my bg: I sponged DOX, spritzed with water and blotted, stamped with Stamploration's Mixed Media and Grunge stamps, and splattered (DI and white acrylic paint) till I was satisfied. Spread some white gesso around the edges of my panel. I die cut a small rectangle from this panel - making a frame - and then die cut the birds from the left-over rectangular piece. Die cut another set of birds from eggplant cs, adhered the 2 together - slightly offset, so the eggplant would show as a shadow. Die cut some branches from eggplant also. Stamped the sentiment on the card front, and then popped up the frame, branches, birds with dimensionals.