Beautiful Soft Yellow Vintage Bird HouseCompleted by Peggy Stogdill

Printed the sheets on 200gm matte photo paper.

I used a glue stick to glue the insert panel to the card back, back to back, cut the opening from the card front and cut out the decoupage elements (though I had to cut away some of the beautiful scrollwork as I couldn't cut such fine detail.) Attached the roof and other decoupage with silicone gel, being careful not to put any gel where I planned to place my brad (see photo).

When the gel was dry, I punched a small hole through the card front layers near the top and through the insert/card back, wrapped a fine chain loop around the brad legs in the back, then added the back roof decoupage with silicone to cover it all, making sure to put a blob of silicone over the brad legs to secure.

I added a peel-off sentiment to one of the larger blank panels, then punched tiny holes and hung the sentiment with small jump rings.

The card swings open on the brad and the sentiment will fold upward for mailing. Beautiful graphics, gorgeous colors!