LIM 127...Shades of Grey

The challenge this week at Less Is More is to make a clean and simple card using shades of grey(gray)...how very intriguing!!  I opted for a cute set of stamps and matching dies I recently got from Papertrey Ink, Little Bitty Bird....yes, an old set, but very new to me...birds, grey, ...it just works...

I stamped the bird stamps on a white panel, standing on top of one another atop a "ground" piece(A Muse Studio Ovalicious).  Then I stamped and die cut the birds in the different shades of grey....yes stamped THEN die cut.  I got tired of trying to line up the stamp with the die cut image...they always stamped a bit off.  SO...I die cut  the birds each with a thin piece of paper, and after stamping and clear embossing a bird, I placed the thin paper bird OVER the stamped image, put a tiny piece of Elliptical tape on the very top edge of the paper bird, and then placed the die OVER the thin paper and die cut the bird...PERFECT every time!!  Hope that makes sense!  I stamped more birds, to have gray wings for each bird, rotating the gray colors.  Die cut a rectangle, stamped the sentiment and popped up on gray panel.
Thanks for visiting me today!! Hugs!! Lisa