Birdhouse Shaped Card

I've had a bird house shaped card sample for years,

knowing one day I would trace it to 

make my own bird house shaped card. 

I finally got around to it !

I assume the original card was a die cut card

bought somewhere, it is perfectly trimmed

and folds neatly. I carefully traced the outlines

of the opened up card then did my best to

get the lines in the correct places to

cut along for the top of the birdhouse. 

It is cut from one piece of card stock. 

The original is below:

Here are a couple of closeups of my version:

SUPPLIES:

Everything other than the texture plate was from Stampin' Up!

Naturals card stock

Baroque Burgundy card stock

Various inks and markers

DD Ivy stamp set

Crackle Background stamp

Speckled background stamp, Itty Bitty Backgrounds

Bird image (don't remember the set name)

Bird paper punch

Circle punches

Hand cut bird legs

Scraps of chipboard used for dimension behind roof and peg

Dimensionals under the bird

Texture plate, Fiskars

I thought about stamping and cutting the ivy from 

separate paper then attaching it to the birdhouse

for a more 3-D look, as if it were growing

up on it. I already had the other dimensional 

parts going on with it, so it would have looked nice.

Then I thought I'd rather stamp it directly

on the birdhouse so it looked like a cute,

painted and weathered birdhouse.

It saved time doing it that way, too ;) 

I'm entering my card in the following challenges:

Crafting By Designs - Animals (bird)

Use Your Stuff #268- Try Something New

(creating the birdhouse shaped card that I've never done before;

this is also the first time I've used this particular texture plate)

Thanks for looking =) 

EDITED TO ADD 6/25/2017
Honored to have my card chosen as one of the Top Picks at Use Your Stuff :)