SPA - Birds

Hi everybody, I hope you're all well and having a lovely weekend in the sunshine
Birds is this weeks theme over at the Sunday Postcard Art challenge.

My postcard has an alcohol ink background. I used a Stampendous stamp and die for the flowers, Katzelkraft stamp for the black birds and a TJ Design stamp for the postmark. The birds are cut out from a paper napkin and the words are Tim Holtz small talk stickers.

Thank you for visiting my blog, have a lovely Sunday. xxx Hazel.

Song Birds

We're having trouble with the internet at the moment, it's been going on and off every few minutes for the last couple of days and it's driving me mad, I'm hoping that it will last long enough for me to get this post done.

I've done another page for the Art Journal Journey  challenge - If Music Be The Food Of Love.

I used a brayer to colour the background. I stamped the birds on a wire and coloured them with pencils, I stamped the bird on the branch and also stamped it onto white card and coloured it in, I cut it out and glued it over the image on the page. I drew the leaves and coloured them in with pencils. I put some tissue tape across the top and stamped the postmark onto card and cut it out. The small birds were stamped onto card, coloured and cut out. I added some tissue wrap at the bottom. I wrote the words.
The stamps I used are
Inkylicious - birds on the wire.
The Artistic Stamper - bird on the branch.
TJ Designs - small birds and postmark.

Thank you for looking, the internet has held out so now I might be able to get some commenting done.

xxx Hazel.

Pink And Yellow

I'm a little bit late with my postcard for the Sunday Postcard Art challenge, the theme this week is Pink and Yellow.

I'm also sharing my postcard with The Artistic Stamper challenge - Things With Wings.

I use alcohol inks for the background and stamped on top of it.
Stamps used
The Artistic Stamper - the main image.
Creative Expressions - bubble wrap stamp.
Indigo Blu - letter stamp.
TJ Designs - quote, postmark and song bird.

Thank you for looking.

xxx Hazel.

Birdie ATCs

Good morning everyone, I hope you're having a lovely weekend, I had a fabulous day yesterday at a Mini Album workshop at the Craft Barn.

I'd like to share with you some Bird ATCs that I've made during the year.

I used a mono print background and stamped the hessian [Indigo Blu] and the branch [Inkadinkado]. Shabby pink Frantage was added to the card and I stamped the postmark [TJ Designs]. I stamped the bird [Lost Coast Design] onto a separate piece of card and cut it out.

I used Dylusions ink on the background and stamped the Inkadinkado branch. The Dina Wakley scribble bird was stamped onto a separate piece of card and cut out.

The background on this ATC is weaved pieces of handmade paper. The Sheena Douglas stamps were stamped onto white card and watercoloured and then cut out.

The background was made with Distress inks. The main image is by Crafty Individuals.

Deep In The Forest

Good morning, I hope you all had a lovely weekend.

I'd like to share a journal page with you today, I haven't done much journaling and am always amazed at all the wonderful pages that people do.

I've made my pages for the Art Journal Journey challenge, the theme is Deep In The Forest.

I started of by covering the pages with gesso and stamped some leaves with archival ink. Earlier in the day I collected some fallen leaves and Sycamore seeds and using lots of glue adhered them to the pages then I covered the leaves with tissue paper.

This photo shows the background and the leaves covered with tissue paper              

I painted the pages with lot of different green inks and some orange and red on the leaves, the leaves were given a final coat of gold Acrylic Artists Ink.
I stamped lots of animals onto tissue paper and coloured them on the back with acrylic paint and adhered them to the pages, the badger had two coats of white but some of the green ink came still came through.

I was pleased with how the leaved turned out.

Here is a list of the stamps and inks that I used.

Adirondack Colour Wash Sprays.

Dylusion Ink Sprays.

Distress Stain.

Acrylic Artists Ink.

Elusive Images/Chocolate Baroque - tree stamp.

Inkadinkado  - small leaves.

Large leaves unknown.

Hobby Art - badger, hedgehog, fox, deer and squirrel.

TJ Designs - nest.

Bird Deco Pages

The 2014 deco book swap is well under way at KCUK - these are the pages that I made for Sandra, the theme for her book is Birds.

I used a Gelli background.
I stamped some images on the background and stamped the duck image onto card and cut it out then matted it onto some black card, I did the same with the sentiment. For the embellishment I painted a wooden bird and stamped on it.

I used the following stamps
Crafty Individuals for the main image.
Stampers Anonymous for the flying birds.
Inkadinkado for the twigs.
Time To Stamp for the sentiment.

I stamped some music notes onto a Gelli background and added a Martha Stewart birds on a wire die cut. I stamped the main image and sentiment and matted them onto black card.

The stamps that I used are.
Crafty Individuals for the main image.
Everything else was stamped withTJ Design stamps.

Tim's Tags or 2014 - March

Here is my March tag for the Tim Holtz 12 Tags of 2014.
I think I only had the tissue tape, staples and Distress ink that Tim used and had to make do with supplies from my stash.

I tried to keep it as close to Tim's as possible using the following stamps.
Inkadinkado for the twigs.
TJ Designs for the nest.
Time To Stamp for the Egg.
Hero Arts for the feather.

I'm linking my tag to the A Vintage Journey - Anything Tim Challenge

Inchie - Song

Song is the theme at Every Inchie Monday this week. I wasn't sure what to do so I looked through my stamps and found a couple that I thought would fit the theme.

The background bird stamp is part of a Crafty Individuals stamp and the mains image is a T J Designs stamp.

I didn't get time to share my inchie with you last week so here it is now, the theme was Pocket Watch.

I used a Cherry Pie Art Stamp of the rabbit from Alice In Wonderland looking at his watch. I stamped it onto shrink plastic.

Songbird

This is a card that I've made using Gecko Galz lovely July products.

Image from the Let Them Eat Cake Digi Stamp Set.

Two Background Papers From The By The Shore Paper Set.

Martha Stewart Bird Punch.

Black Card.

T J Designs Song Bird Stamp Set.

Stormy Sky Distress Ink.

Square Card Blank.

Black Archival Ink Pad.

 

Cover the card blank with one of the background papers and tear the other paper and adhere to the card.

Stamp the images then punch the line of birds from the black card and adhere to the card.

Print the image twice and cut out the bird from one of them.

Colour the main image with the distress ink, splash with water and when almost dry colour again with the distress ink, this gives it the darker patches.

Adhere the cut out bird to the image.

Stamp the sentiment onto a scrap of paper and adhere to the card.

Little Birdie ATCs

I made these ATCs for the UK Stampers February ATC swap.

 

I started by brayering some acrylic paint onto card, when this was dry I cut them to size and stamped the birds. The larger birds and words were stamped onto colured card and cut out. I added a little bird charm.

The stamps that I used are

Stampers Anonymous for the background birds.

Lost Coast Designs for the larger bird.

T J Designs for the words.

Song Birds

Here is another DT card that I made for Gecko Galz.

The Gecko Galz products that I used are
Recipe File background paper.
Lost in Shadows background paper
Main image and small birds from the Toot Sweet Digi Collection.

I used aged mahogany and faded jeans Distress ink to colour the edges of the background paper and images, these were then layered onto a card blank together with some lace, flowers and sentiment. I used the sentiment stamp from the TJ Designs Song Birds stamp set.

Fun Swap

Firstly I'd like to thank everyone for their commiserations for the  loss of my cat Dino. It's lovely to know that there are so many caring people out in blog land.

In July KCUK had a fun swap. Dot sends out something to the people taking part and we have to make something crafty with it to send to our swap partner, I had to send mine to Darlene. Dot sent us the two money envelopes and the piece of leather on the right of the photo. I was stumped, it took me ages to decide what I was going to do with it, in the end I decided to alter the notebook on the left of the photo.

This is the end result. I covered the notebook with some paper from my stash and coloured it and the envelopes with some rusty hinge and broken china Distress ink. I then stamped a variety of images over the front of the book and envelopes. I attached the envelopes to the front and inside front cover leaving the tops open to make pockets. The next thing I did was to attach a piece of tissue tape and a row of Martha Stewart die cut birds to the top of the envelope. The blue letters were cut with the chip block letters Tim Holtz Sizzix Alterations die. I stamped the pattern on the leather using teal blue Stazon and cut the bird out with a Tim Holtz Sizzix Alterations Die. I had a little bit of leather left so I stamped 3 little birds and cut them out to use as embellishments. I decorated a tag/bookmark the same way as the notebook to fit into the front pocket.
The stamps that I used are by TJ Designs, Inkadinkado, Crafty Individuals and Penny Black.

The notebook and bookmark.

Inside the notebook