Blue Tit & Blackberry Bramble Lunch Scene Builder Card FrontCompleted by Gwyneth George

I printed the sheet out onto Super Smooth white card and cut out all the pieces. While this decoupage design would make a lovely smaller card about the same size as the image, for this card I decided to go big and took an A3 sheet of Centura Pearl Snow White cardstock, scored it in half, and folded it to make an A4, tent fold, card. I took two sheets of satin cardstock, in shades to reflect the blackberries both ripened and unripend, and created a mat, frame, and paper ribbon strip from them. I also cut out some flower shapes using my Cameo digital cutting machine using flower shapes from cup46601_523 and cup53732_198 from th darkest colour. I put the card together by sticking the largest mat and the paper ribbon directly to the base card. I used 2mm deep, double sided, foam tape to put the frame in place. I used my fingers to give some shaping to the decoupage layers. I then used a corner rounder punch on the corners of the base image and the layers that abutted to corners before using the same tape to attach the bottom decoupage layers and attaching the other layers to the image and the flowers to the side strip using glue gel.

A really lovely depiction of a scene I'm very familiar with in our garden, although at this time of the year it's the bird feeders not the blackberries the blue tits are eating.