Early Birds

Hello crafters!

This week we'rea very EARLY BIRDS

Simon Says Stamp Store is offering the $25 voucher.

I love to watch birds and most of all to hear the Spring songbirds.

I live very close to a quite big park and we have a lot of blackbirds. 

They are giving the most amazing concerts twice a day the whole season. 

Last week we found a nest with 6 tiny trushes 

made inside one of the thuyas in my parent's summer house. 

Aren't they just lovely? 

Ok, let's move to crafting. 

I feel always inspired by nature and the birds are such a great 

source of inspiration. I used a picture from Stamperia Cosmos collection. 

I like this project quite much and made another one 

with this lovely frog :)

Products used:

Stamperia COSMOS 8x8 paper pack	Tim Holtz Sizzix WILDFLOWER STEMS 2 Thinlits Die	Tim Holtz Cling Rubber Stamps 2018 ENTOMOLOGY CMS328	Prima Marketing ORIENTAL WALL 6 x 9 Stencil	Tim Holtz Sizzix LUMBER 3D Texture Fades Embossing Folder	Tim Holtz Sizzix MIXED MEDIA Thinlits Die 660220
Tim-Holtz-Distress-Oxide-Spray-COLOR-Speckled-Egg- Ranger	Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Spray GROUND ESPRESSO	Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Spray FOREST MOSS Ranger	Tim-Holtz-Distress-Oxide-Spray-WEATHERED-WOOD-Ranger	Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Spray WALNUT STAIN	Tim Holtz Distress Spray Stain GROUND ESPRESSO
Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Spray FRAYED BURLAP Ranger tso67702	Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Spray BRUSHED CORDUROY	Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Spray AGED MAHOGANY	Tim Holtz Distress Paint PICKET FENCE Ranger	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ground Espresso	Tim Holtz Distress Oxide ink RUSTY HINGE Ranger
Tim Holtz Distress Crayons SET 3	/Prima-Marketing-WHITE-GOLD-Art-Alchemy-Metallique-Wax	We R Memory Keepers Crop-a-Dile Punch	Eyelets Standard Warm Metal - Memory Keepers	simon says stamp craft tacky glue	Sizzix BIG SHOT EXPRESS Gray and White

       

Birdsong

Hello! 

I keep being inspired by Spring, flowers, birdsongs and colors...

Today it's a card for Sketch Saturday challenge:

Are you going to join us?

Food and Drink - Simon Monday Challenge

Hi everyone! 

I know you're waiting impatiently for this new challenge 

at Simon Monday Challenge Blog 

and here we are with a fresh topic which is:

FOOD and DRINK

As always there is a $50 voucher sponsored by the greatest Simon Says Stamp which you could use for crazy shopping at Simon Says Stamp Store!

Here is what I have made this week. 

This is my first time altering the egg tray but I absolutely loved it.

There is a chance I'll repeat it someday...

This would be my centerpiece for the upcoming Easter Hollidays.

I decided to use only three pastel and Spring colors for every element.

Here below there is a picture of the steps I made:

1. The whole tray was covered with white gesso, not too precisely because I wanted the surface to be irregular and some parts of the tray were left uncovered. After that I put some coarse texture paste randomly and dried it.

2. I put different pieces of textiles, gauze, twine, cotton tape, coconut fibre and glued them to the tray. 

3-4. I started to blending distress inks (yellow, green and violet) randomly and spraying with water to let them spill naturally and obtain different shades of colors. This was the best part of the work!

After my tray was ready to be embellished, I stamped lots of Artful Flowers and some Crazy Birds with Jet Black ink on the Canson Watercolor paper pad. 

Cut them all out and started to coloring using the Blending Tool 

and Reflills one per each color. After all the flowers and birds were colored, I sprayed them a little bit with water letting the colors mix together and also to receive some clearer dots on the inked elements. I also covered the small eggs with the same colors of distress inks. I glues all the elements with 3D foam squares. That's it! 

     

Supplies:

Simon Says Clear Stamps ARTFUL FLOWERS	Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Bird Crazy Stamp Set	Ranger/Tim Holtz Mini Ink Blending Tool	Refill Mini Round Ink Blending Tool	Dina Wakley Media Mediums - White Gesso	Archival Ink - Jet Black
Tim Holtz DIstress Ink in Wild Honey	TH Distress Ink Peeled Paint	Dusty Concord - Distress Ink	Black soot - Distress ink	Ranger Tim Holtz Seasonal Distress Ink Pad - Ripe Persimmon	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Spiced Marmalade
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Squeezed Lemonade	Mustard Seed Distress Ink	Hemptique Natural Hemp Cord Twine	Scrapbook Adhesives THIN 3D 217 WHITE FOAM Squares Adhesive	Canson MONTVAL SPIRAL WATERCOLOR 9x12 Pad	Dina Wakley Ranger Palette Kinife

Thank you for stopping by.

See you next week!