Wednesday 25 June 2014

Sing Little Birdie!

Well, hello again - 2 blogs in one month - things are improving!!

I managed to grab a spare afternoon to get crafty and I made a tag using some of my Crafty Individuals stamps.  Over on the Crafty Individuals blog, the challenge this month (June) is "Tag You're It!" and the task is to make a tag using their stamps.  I love Crafty Individuals - their attention to detail is amazing and they produce some lovely images in their stamps; the hardest part of this challenge is to choose which images to use!!  I finally decided on some birdies!

 
 
I started with a watercolour paper tag that I had already coloured with the residue from my stencil used as the background for my Tim's Tag for June. The image wasn't as detailed as it was for my Tim's Tag, but it was too nice to ignore!
 
 
I stamped the little row of birds using CI-230, cut them out and then coloured them with Broken China, Squeezed Lemonade and Frayed Burlap distress inks pressed onto my mat and spritzed with water and then painted on. 
 
 
I stamped the bird house twice using CI-218 and then cut out the main image from one and just the bird and the little heart on the top from the other.  I coloured the house with Old Paper distress ink and a little Frayed Burlap and the cut-out bird with the same distress inks as I used for the chicks and then highlighted some of the colours with a flex-marker.



I coloured the heart with a Barn Door distress marker and then covered it in glossy accents.


I random-stamped a swirl from an old stamp on to the tag using Wild Honey distress ink and cut out a flourish from my Tonic Verdant Vines die and glued it to the tag.


 
 
 
 
 
 
I cut a branch from the Spellbinders Cherry Blossom die and glued this across the bottom of the tag and then put the row of little birds on the branch with 3-D foam pads.

 
I then 3-D'd the larger bird and glossy heart on to the bird house.
 

I cut the corner off a metal embellishment and then "aged" it with Shabby Shutters and Broken China Distress Paints and added it to the top of the tag.  I then glued a short length of old fine chain so that it looked as though the bird house was hanging from the filigree corner. 






I mounted the bird house on to the tag so that it looked as though the chicks were looking up a their mum for instructions.  I finished it with a bit of dyed seam binding, a few hand drawn musical notes and a hand written "Sing".
 

 
So, there you have it - my entry for this month's Crafty Individuals Challenge!
 
Thanks for looking and Keep Crafting!

Jean

3 comments:

  1. Delish birdie tag - so very pretty. Thank you for joining in the CI Challenge for June. Jean x

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  2. Love the whole design to this one Jean. What a great idea for using these images. Jenny x

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