Bokeh Bird

Recently I was at a craft event where the challenge of the day was to make something with circles.  As this week's challenge at Stampotique is also circles, I thought I would share this card.

The background is the Bokeh technique which I came across in a recent Craft Stamper magazine.  This technique is so easy and each one is unique.  I've used three Distress Inks on this one, with the white spots being SU Whisper White ink.

This cute little bird is from Dina Wakely's "Scribbly Birds" collection of stamps

(if that is incorrect, please let me know as I borrowed the stamp)

and is coloured blending two different Distress Inks and just a smidge of red.  The beak was coloured with a marker.  The bird was then cut out and adhered to the card. The words are from the same set of stamps.

Each time I make a Bokeh background I use different combinations of colour, and no two are ever the same.  This is my current favourite background so if you see more cards etc in the next few postings of this blog, you'll know why!

Happy Crafting!!!

A bird does not sing

On Tuesday, my crafting friend Jenni, invited me to check out her craft room, 

and of course, have some 'play time' together.

Last week the Stampotique Designer's Challenge was

"Orange & Lemon - use Citrus colours"
 and this week's theme at the Tagalong Challenge is
"Warm Colours" 

Using Distress Inks, I started with 'squeezed lemon', adding 'spiced marmalade', some 'worn lipstick' and just a whisker of 'peeled paint', blending them altogether.

 I stamped the background hearts in 'spiced marmalade', stamping off once first.

On Jenni's shelf (next to where I was sitting) were her JOFY stamps, so using #12 I stamped some foliage, colouring it with Distress Ink.  

I really like these quirky stamps, hmmm ..... think I might have to review my wish list - which is always getting longer (sigh)!

I stamped 'Toucan & Budgie' from Stampotique, onto some ivory card, coloured them with watercolour pencils and fussy cut them.  They were mounted on the tag using my favourite dimensionals (SU).

The top of the tag looked a little bare, so Jenni to the rescue again, with a quote from Dina Wakely's 'Scribbly Birds', stamped in 'Watering Can' Archival Ink.

To finish I coloured a length of seam binding ribbon in co-ordinating colours and looped it through the top of the tag.

Of course, by the time I got around to photographing the tag, a new challenge had appeared on Stampotique Designers Challenge - oh well, at least this time I can still add it anyway!

Happy Crafting!