Chicken wire fun

How cool is this?

I was working in the yard and had some remnant scraps of chicken wire.  Actually, I was working on the flower beds around the scrap shack.  What a great segue for me to yak about the shack...

Little daughter and I had planted bulbs in the fall and the @#$%^ squirrels dug up many of them... rrr.  So I had to carefully dig through the torn-up soil to see where some tulips were actually still in place... what a pain.  But it was sunny, and little daughter was playing with a buddy in the yard, so it was fine.  My folks had given me a bag of gladiola bulbs last week, and I had some leftover tulips and bluebells (!) that should have been planted in the fall.  I planted them all, and snipped some chicken wire to keep the varmints out!

See the chicken wire and wood around the flower beds?  I mean BUSINESS, squirrels!  Ya hear me???

Pardon the mess... we have't gotten back to construction since the fall.  So, here's where the magic happens.  I painted the stripes on the doors so the birds won't run into them--  I am looking into more attractive options, but that was a quick fix.  We obviously need to face the top, and trim out the corners and frames.  I'll need a step eventually, a few bird feeders, and a window box! (I'll show you the inside soon... it's a MESS!)  I've mentioned this before, I think, but my awesome hubs built this last summer/fall, and we finished it with 75-year old boards from the original mill in town.  The roof is also old corrugated metal from the mill.

Back to the project!  Supplies and notes:

• I used a Sizzix embossing folder on the library catalog card then sprayed it with LSG mist in Ethereal Emerald... of course the pictures seldom do the sheen justice...
• I used a piece of chicken wire that was roughly cut the size of the card and I used my pliers to curl the ends around the card.
• The birds are from my National Geographic bird guide for scrappin', and I popped them up on dimensional.  These are non-native in my area... They are actually mostly in Mexico.
• The flower at the top is from one of Tim's packs... I did not alter the color of it because the pewter that I bought it in went so well with the wire.  I glued it on with E-3000 

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

• Try It On Tuesday: Nature (my 4th...)
• Crafting By Designs: 3 or more layers (the card, the wire, the birds)