Hey there my friends!! This new year feels like a new beginning for many of us. The phoenix bird is legendary and includes a myth that it was destroyed by fire, yet rose from the ashes. It’s a commentary on the hopes of each of us when we have gone through a struggle, that a new day can bring us new opportunities and new courage to fight on.

I created this card in that spirit. It has a very masculine feel, yet could be given to any one. You could switch out the colors and make it more feminine. Here are all the deets.

Hero Arts Phoenix Bird Fancy Die is available now!

Technique: Masculine Color Palette and Die Element

Supplies List

1. Phoenix Bird Fancy Die

2. Circular Grid Bold Prints (coming in February 2021, Spring Catalog p 84)

3. Zest Wishes Stamp Set

4. Butter Bar Ink

5. Cup O’ Joe Ink

6. Copic Markers in Yellow, Red, Yellow-Red and Warm Gray

7. Intensified Black Ink

8. Clear Watermark and Embossing Ink

9. White Embossing Powder

10. Pitch Black Cardstock

11. Dove Cardstock

12. Gemini Jr

13. Precision Glue

14. MISTI Stamping Tool

15. Heat Tool

16. Foam Tape

17. Fun Foam

18. Glossy Accents

Steps to Create this Card

1. I started out by stamping the Circular Grid Bold Prints out in Butter Bar ink and Cup O’ Joe Ink, blending them right on the stamp with a blender brush between layers.

2. Then, I added more Cup O’ Joe Ink to create a vignette with a blender brush.

3. Next, I die cut the Phoenix Bird die out of Dove white cardstock with my Gemini Jr and colored it in with Copic markers — W10, YR27, Y17 and R17.

4. After that, I popped up the Phoenix Bird onto the front of the background panel with foam tape.

5. Then, I created a sentiment strip by stamping “It’s a New Day” from the Zest Wishes stamp set onto some Pitch Black cardstock in Clear Watermark and Embossing Ink and melting White Embossing Powder over it, and trimming it down.

6. I adhered the sentiment strip to the front of the panel, trimmed the panel down an 1/8” on all sides and popped it all up on fun foam with liquid adhesive.

7. To finish it all off, I added some drops of Glossy Accents around the Phoenix!

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Love you all!