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!

Art Journal: The Key to Happiness is a Bad Memory

At first I wasn’t so sure about this quote but it finally made sense!  It really is bad memories that are in between you and happiness.  I've been experimenting with stamping and sticking on some scrappy and damaged tissue papers I've had lying around.  This was a fun page to make and I enjoyed making an abstract door knob with a rotating clock face.  This is one of those pages that you discover more the longer you look at it.

Ingredients

• Scrap tissue paper
• Black archival ink
• Script stamp by Sheena Douglass
• Crafters acrylic paint: Bronze, copper and gold
• Tim Holtz: chat stickers, number fragments, big chat stickers, clock face, screw brads, key plates
• Tim Holtz pen spritzer tool
• Spectrum Aqua pens
• Stickles glitter glue – black diamond
• Faber Castell pitt brush pen
• Large key charm, sparkly gem, brad, seam binding
• Spellbinders labels 28 dies

  

Art Journal: Yellow

My inspiration for this was simple; the colour yellow! So out came the distress inks and the alcohol inks!   There was no science behind putting this page together I just freely added what I wanted and where, relaxing! And what a happy colour yellow is! X

Ingredients:

• Distress Inks: various yellow colours
• Tim Holtz: Ephemera, tissue tapes, film ribbon, binder clasps, chat stickers, photobooth picture, dot fade stencil
• Stamps: Stampers Anonymous Classics #9 and #4
• Distress Embossing Powder - Vintage Photo
• Faber Castell pitt brush pen
• Adirondack Alcohol Inks: yellow, red, blender solution
• Calligraphy nib, mini paper clip
• Deep orange mirror card
• Black Archival Ink
• White gel pen and Black fine line pen
• Black spectrum noir pen

   

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!!!