A Stamptacular Winter Wonderland full of All Creatures Great and Small

The Stamptacular Sunday Challenge blog have a "whateva" theme this week with a by-line that reads "do something out of the ordinary but don't forget to stamp".   Winter Wonderland are captioned "My sentiments exactly" and they don't need a Christmas card on this occasion.  Sir Stampalot want to see "all creatures great and small".

So I did something out of the ordinary and the only stamps I used were for the sentiments.
This card is for our son-in-law, a delightful young  man who turns his hand to everything.  In the last couple of years we have helped him build his dreams with a little cash injection but he has worked his socks off to realise them. 

I don't know anyone who works as hard as he does and he is a great husband and father too.  We love him to bits.

I think if I were to try and do something similar to this card again, I could probably improve on this.  My Cricut was being a wotsit and in the end whereas the Cricut scored the design, I had to cut the birdcage and dark card base with a scalpel so it's not terribly neat.  DPs are Papermania and the birdies are punched with an SU punch.  I punched each bird twice and then cut off the tummies to layer them up so that they would have contrasting colours for their breast.  The focus sentiment is by TPC Studios and I think the little one is Stamps Away cut with an SU tiny tag punch.   The card opens from the top and the insert inside is shaped like an arch.