Christmas Animals

Christmas Animals

Hi Everyone!

In the UK the Robin is a

much used Christmas icon

but if you're in the US you'll

probably substitute it with

a Cardinal Bird.................

or so I'm told

I wonder what birds are

Christmas icons in other

countries?...................

...............anyone?

Bit of a treat for you today - 

a small canvas by

Helen Chilton and it

features Robins............

Die cut the snowflakes out of card and arrange

 on a 6" x 6" canvas board.

Glue on with a wet glue and then seal. 

Trim off the edges.

When it's dry paint over with a good layer

of gesso

Let it dry again and then spritz with some 

Imagination Crafts Silver spray.

Blot back and then add some Starlights -

 I dabbed it on with my fingers.

Get out some Grunge Paste, add a blob of

 Toffee Fresco paint to colour it and

 mix together.

Scrape through the branch stencil directly 

onto your canvas.

 Don't worry if it looks a bit messy.

Use up the rest by scraping through the

 leaf stencils onto card. 

When dry, cut them out.

Using the same DecoArt stencil, 

trace some birds onto grey board.

Cut them out and gesso.

I've then added basic robin colours with 

Fresco paints.

To make them come to life, add details 

with coloured pencils.

 

Do the same to the leaves. 

Add a white dot to the eye.

Stick it all down onto the canvas.

 I then decided to add darker tones to 

the top right of the canvas.

Note the shading and highlighting on the 

branches and birds"

DecoArt Mixed Media Stencil:Canvas

Imagination Crafts Starlight paints:
Imagination Crafts Shake & Gilt: Silver
PaperArtsy Fresco Finish paints:
Coloursoft Pencils:
Find It Trading Dies: Precious Marieke -
Grunge Paste:
Greyboard

This is fun Helen

thank you very much

I am going to have to find time to

make this canvas so I'm off to

see what I have to buy.........

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx

New Home

New Home

Hallo Everyone!

People seem to be on the

move all the time nowadays

and I don't know about you but 

for all I know someone is about

to move house, when they do

it comes as a complete

surprise and I am left scurrying

about getting a card together in

double quick time!  Well, no

more surprises; from now on 

we shall have something suitable

to commemorate the occasion

all ready and waiting ..........

Here is Craftyfield who has

come in to stop me rambling on....

"The Mushroom Lane stamps are lovely

 images to colour and so whimisical I wanted

 to give a house to my faerie...

In almost a negative from the card I stamped

 the tags with white ink, for a totally different look.

For the card I stamped the image on white

 cardstock with Memento black dye ink. 

This is the best ink for colouring with 

alcohol pens as alcohol doesn't affect it.

 After colouring I die-cut the image 

for the best fit on my stepper.

I also stamped a few grasses and flowers 

to create a garden for the left of 

my stepper, on a separate piece of card,

 placing a fairy amongst the vegetation. 

I added a subtle glitter accent with a 

Spica pen in lavender to make the wings visible.

I created my side stepper, with an A4 piece

 of cardstock from which I cut 1.7cm off the

 length, keeping the entire width. 

This makes all the measuring easier.

The side stepper folded:

 For the tag, since this is a BIG stamp, 

I layed my 2 tags side by side and

 stamped both at once. 

2 upsides: I get 2 matching but completely 

different tags and I only ink,

 stamp & clean once... 

no, not lazy just keen on efficiency!

Before colouring... I stamped the image 

in white but tried to use the same 

colours as for the card

 (it's the same house after all!)

 For colouring, I only used pencils, 

no solvent, blender or burnishers, 

and yet obtained a very good coverage

 of the coloured cardstock. 

The Coloursoft pencils are very good at 

laying opaque colours quickly without 

need for layers upon layers of pencils."

Supplies:

Mushroom Lane - House 2:l

Mia (faerie) from Lavinia: 

EKC02 from PaperArtsy (the flowers): 

Black dye ink (Memento): 

White pigment ink (Versacolor): 

Versamark:

White Embossing powder:

Alcohol markers (Promarkers): 

Coloured pencils (Coloursoft): 

Glitter pen:

Thank you for a great project

Craftyfield and such a clear

template too!  Suddenly the

construction of a stepper has

come clear to me!

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx