Make My Monday week 30

Another post this evening, I love the MMM challenges and this one has let me play with all my new stamps:)
There is always a monthly theme and January's is NATURE and the challenge this week is BIRDS. 
I got a bit carried away and used my favourite bird, the SU Little Vermillion and my SU Everything Eleanor stamps and French Foliage!

 My base card is pearl stock which I scored to fold halfway across. I covered the inside with shagreen paper with a blue tinge. The left side I stamped with the Everything Eleanor flourish and the little bird using Crumb Cake. The main image started with a Prima mask sponged with Stormy Sky DI and then overstamped with French Foliage using Bundled sage and Soft Suede inks. The gate is printed on acetate from Joanna Sheen's Country Garden cd and has been languishing in my scraps waiting for a suitable moment. The birds are Little Vermillion with the bottom one punched out from the SU punch so that I could use the leaves. The label was stamped and folded around and a flower stamped with Bashful Blue and distressed with Crumb Cake and mounted with a brad. I used my new Memory box die for the top left corner and sponged to match. Finally I matted onto pale green card and attached to the left hand side of the base card. The sentiment is printed onto freebie ticket stubs from kldezign using my xyron digi printer.

Thank you for persevering with my long post but I kept on adding to my card, definitely not a CAS card this time:)