This is one of the paper pins we made on Monday night at my "Paper Porcelain Pin" making class. See my entire tutorial on making these pins here. I’ll be publishing the date of this class (I’m going to do it again) soon.
You can see from the side view (shown left) that I made a second wing in 3 layers of Riding Hood Red paper and then adhered it with a Dimensional.
The face (noteably the eye) lacked clear definition, so I added one layer of the head/beak/neck stamped on white and colored in with marker (Ruby Red & More Mustard)–see last photo below, and then Crystal Effects over the entire thing. The branch and rhinestones were added last.
Okay, so, how did I do?
It’s a *very* simple gift card holder to make and it took a VERY small amount of the designer series paper… in fact, I used the wide grosgrain to hide the fact that they don’t quite meet up under the ribbon!
I learned this trick working in a stamp store years ago. The stamp companies sell you samples for display, and one day (to figure out how they were made), I pulled a few apart and saw that no paper was wasted where it wasn’t seen. Not a bad idea I thought!
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