Birds Week - Dawn Heald

Morning all,

I have to keep reminding myself what

the day is, everything is so messed up,

next week we should get back to a bit of

normality.....actually, is that possible??

I'm back today with a project from Dawn, she has 

also being playing with some birds!

This is what Dawn says.....

Hello, Wishing you all a very Happy

 New Year and that 2016 brings you all you ask for. 

For this week I've made a card to send to family.

 From all of us to them. I'm still undecided on

 the sentiment but that will go in the bottom

 corner. I've gone for Lin Brown stamps to

 depict the six members of my little family household.

 I love these stamps and any reason to use

 them, I'm on it. The full on busy

 background fits with our family too.

A note - Don't think too hard about which paints

 to use. I didn't and it worked. It made

 the process more fun for me.

First make the background. Using watercolour

 card. Take three different colours of acrylic

 paints and with plenty of water, paint

 randomly and loosely  around the card.

 Don't worry about dirty water, it works. 

Then flick more water all over. Let settle

 for a minute then dab off excess with kitchen 

roll. Pattern embossed kitchen roll works

 really well here. Dry. Repeat the steps

 again to get more intense colour.

Then use stencil with white gesso and stipple

 through leaving some areas alone. Dry.

 Outline with grey marker pens. Then use

 a selection of the small stamps all over

 the painted card to create a busy pattern.

 Trim to size.

Distress edges then colour edges with black pen.

Stamp all your birds, colour with

 Inktense Pencils and cut out.

Attach coloured coffee stirrers, leftover

 pieces of card from trimming and gold 

ribbon across the bottom so birds

 have something to stand on. 

  

Attach this to a white A5 card blank.

 Then arrange birds onto background and

 stick in place with foam pads.

 I love this, so colourful, great for 

the start of the new year!

This is what Dawn used -

Paperartsy Lin Brown Stamps ELB17, ELB18

Imagination Crafts Stencil - Diamond

 Watercolour Cardstock 

PaperArtsy Paints - 

Fresco Finish Butternut and Caribbean Sea. 

White Gesso

Americana Paint - Primary Red

Stazon Inks -  Jet Black, Dove Grey, Teal,

  Midnight Blue

Inktense Pencils

Grey Promarkers

Cosmic Shimmer Clear Glue 

Stencil Brushes

I'll be seeing you soon,

enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Jane x