Art Journal: Let’s Take Back Our Eggs!!!

Featuring Bird Crazy Stamps and Distress products by Tim Holtz, this is a fun page where I get to be silly again for a moment.  One of the birds is wearing the rabbit ears from the Crazy Things stamps and asking his buddies if they’ll come with him to get back “their” eggs.  These birds are so silly that they don’t realise that the Easter/Eostre Eggs are made from chocolate and they think that they’ll steal them back whilst pretending to be rabbits.

Apologies that you don’t get to see the very first step (I think the birds deleted it), but literally all I did was stick down some of the Tim Holtz tissue wrap, stick texture paste through the Blossom stencil with a spatula and cover the lot with gesso.  The rest of the background is made with Distress paints and inks.

Ingredients

• Stamps: Bird Crazy, Crazy Things and Feather Things by Tim Holtz
• Stencil: Blossom by Tim Holtz
• Distress Inks:  Lots of colours!
• Distress paints: greens, blues and pink
• Texture paste and white gesso by Pebeo
• Tissue Wrap by Tim Holtz
• Stamping card by Sheena Douglass
• Archival Black ink
• True Black Spectrum Noir pen
• White gel pen and black fine liner
• Liquid pearls in Daffodile
• Googly eyes
• Dark grey pitt brush pen by faber castell

Bird Crazy Picture Book 1: Part 3–Making and Assembling the Book

Hurray I have finally sat down to complete our first picture book!  The video walks you through the entire process of how we can collate our pictures which we made previously and bind them into a cool little book.

You can revisit the previous tutorials here:

• Book 1: Part 1 – Creating the Backgrounds
• Book 1: Part 2 – Creating and Assembling the Birds

List of Materials

• Chipboard
• A4 Black Card
• Stamping Card
• Distress Inks: Walnut stain, bundled sage, mowed lawn, rusty hinge and wild honey
• White Pen
• Tim Holtz “Bird Crazy” Stamp set
• Feather stamp from Stampers Anonymous
• Tissue Paper
• White and Black Gesso
• Die Labels 28 by Spellbinders
• Alpha stamps by Dovecraft
• Archival Black Ink
• Book Tape by Scotch
• Crop-adile and Eyelets
• Stringing Material
• Acrylic PVA and a cheaper PVA
• Matt Gel Medium

Bird Crazy Picture Book 2 (HALLOWEEN)–Part 2: Assembling the Birds

Welcome back to part 2 of the Bird Crazy Picture Book Series (Halloween). In this part we are going to stamp the Tim Holtz stamps and use the Crazy Things to dress them up. Everything is coloured with distress inks and a bit of liquid pearls.  Scroll down for a video Talk and Walk through and a full list of ingredients and full close up photos.

If you need to catch up on Part 1 (creating the backgrounds) you can find it here.

Ingredients:

• Stamps by Stampers Anonymous / Tim Holtz: Bird Crazy and Crazy Things
• Sizzix Dies: Bird Crazy (I don’t have the dies for Crazy Things but you can use them here too)
• Distress Inks in lots and lots of colours (in the video I am named the colours as I go)
• White Stamping Card (Sheena Douglass)
• Ink Daubers and Mini Round Ink Tool
• Googly Eyes in various shapes and sizes (I found mine in a garden centre)
• Black sharpie pen or Spectrum Noir pen
• Black fine line pen
• Liquid Pearls – Onyx, Pumpkin and Mint
• Stickles glitter – Stardust
• Copper chain off cut or Scrap
• Orange vegetable sack
• Crafting or beading sting
• Black foam pads by Stix2
• Cosmic Shimmer Acrylic Glue
• Crackle Accents by Ranger

Bird Crazy Picture Book 2 (HALLOWEEN): Part 1–Backgrounds

I've started my second Tim Holtz Bird Crazy picture book because I finally had my Crazy Things stamps delivered!  Scroll down list of ingredients.  My first bird crazy picture book starts at this post.  In the next part I will stamp the birds and build them up with their crazy things!  The final and third part will be assembling the mini book.

Ingredients

• White Stamping Card cut to 10 x 14cm (I am using Sheena Douglass stamping card)
• Matt Black cardstock (crafter’s Companion)
• Extra paper for layering and inking such as manilla cardstock or chamois cropping block
• Doflex (optional – stencil) and Large circle punch (Martha Stewart)
• Distress Inks – Various
• Fine liner black pen
• Cut and dry foam / inking and blending tools
• Scissors and guillotine
• Stencil – tree scape (Sheena Douglass)
• Textures embossing folder (Crafter’s Companion)
• Stamps – Crazy Things
• Large metal jump rings
• Alcohol pen (optional)

Bird Crazy Picture Book 1: Part 2–Creating the Birds

In this part we’re stamping our Tim Holtz Bird Crazy stamps and die cutting them with the matching Sizzix dies.  If you’ve missed part 1 where we created the backgrounds you can find it here.  In the next part we’ll get them altogether into a book but as they are they would make a super cool set of greeting cards!

Bird Crazy Picture Book 1–Part 1: Distress Ink Backgrounds Step by Step

Play along with me!  I am going to make my first Bird Crazy Picture Book “the countryside”.  There will be three parts to this tutorial Part 1 (this post) is making six easy cartoon style backgrounds. Part 2 (coming soon) will be making and adding the birds.  Part 3 (coming soon) will be compiling the finished cards into a booklet.  Please watch the video to see how I do the backgrounds – I am doing a Talk and Walk through for you x

Ingredients (but use what you have)

• White stamping card
• Distress inks and ink tools
• Spare paper for inking onto
• Embossing Folder Woodgrain texture (Any)
• Small paintbrush
• Liquid pearls in pewter (optional)

Six backgrounds ready for the birds!

1 – Hillside

2 – Fence

3 – Rooftop

4 – Washing Line

5 – Barn

6 – Branch

Bird Crazy Stamps & Art Journal: On the Fence

Everyone has been going Bird Crazy lately all thanks to Tim Holtz!  Having spied the cool stamps coming soon called Crazy Things I figured that I should jump onto the band wagon quickly!  Using a prototype of a secret app I am making to pick my colours (details to follow) I used distress inks and daubers to colour in a full A4 sheet of these fellows.  I then cut them all out using the matching die set by Sizzix. Now I’ve started there is just so much more I want to do with these guys so I am giving them their own tag!   Scroll down for more photos!

Ingredients

• Bird Crazy Stamps
• Bird Crazy Dies
• Old book pages
• Distress inks
• Distress paints: picket fence and salty ocean
• Blue mica spray (homemade using Aqua Tints)
• Background stamp and Stencil by Sheena Douglass
• Spectrum Aqua pens: Bud Green and Rose Petal
• Paper wood grain strips left over from Art Journal
• Printed call outs CLICK HERE FOR FREE PDF DOWNLOAD 
• Black archival ink
• Googly eyes
• White Gel pen (Sigma)
• Black alcohol pen (spectrum noir)
• Liquid Pearls: Pewter

  GOOGLY EYES!!!