Kath Stewart shows how to make a bird card with the Fiskars Fuse Creativity System

What you need...

• Fiskars tools
  Personal Surecut Paper Trimmer, (9893)
  Universal Purpose Scissors, (9853)
  Fuse Creativity System Starter Set, (0077)
  Thick Material Medium Design Set Square, (0079)
  Thick Material Medium Design Set Bird, (0085)
  Expansion Pack Bird, (0093)
  
  Other materials
  Blank, square
  Paper: kraft; fabric, adhesive
  Paper Flowers
  Pearls, adhesive
  Ink-pad, Versamark
  Pen: marker, red; fine liner, black
  Stickers, sentiment
  Adhesives

instructions

1. Instructions - 1 Place a letterpress plate into a square die and put the die back into it's cover. Ink the plate, then place kraft paper on top and pass through the machine. Fix the kraft square to the card. Repeat with a small adhesive fabric paper to create a heart, then cut out the motif and fix into place using foam pads. Colour the small heart with red marker pen.
   
   2 Place a bird letterpress plate from the expansion pack into the die and ink black. Place kraft paper on top and pass through the machine. Repeat to cut only the wing from adhesive fabric paper and twice from kraft paper.
   
   3 Fix the bird onto the card using 3-D foam pads and decorate with the wings and an adhesive pearl for the eye. Draw the legs with black pen. Fix paper flowers into place along with the Kraft card wings to create leaves. Decorate with sentiment stickers and adhesive pearls.

2. Source it - Fiskars, 0115 9277 335, www.fiskars.co.uk
   Products available from Hobbycraft, 01202 596100, www.hobbycraft.co.uk