Here's our sketch for you this week at Try Stampin On Tuesday with the option of Patterns.
I had a great play with this one and grabbed some Tim Holtz and Stampin Up stuff to play with. I started off by making a background for my bird with the new Tim Holtz Speckled Egg Distress Oxide Ink mixed with Gathered Twigs. What better colour for a bird than that gorgeous blue. I used the Feathered Friends thinlets by Tim Holtz to cut out my bird. I added some Versamark with an embossing pen and then added clear embossing to give my bird some shine. So that he had something to stand on I cut out one of the framelits from Colourful Seasons and also the little leaves are from That's The Tag and glued them on to the branch. I added a touch of linen thread to represent a nest for my bird.
The patterned backgrounds used some of the same Tim Holtz colours of the blue and the brown but I stamped some patterns from Gorgeous Grunge on to them and cut them out with stitched framelits. I continued the pattern of dots onto the background card stock and sponged the edges. The musical notes are drawn by hand. The little sentiment is from a book of sayings by Tim Holtz and I added a button with some of the same thread.
I've been caught up with the excitement of Tim Holtz's new colour Speckled Egg. I could only find a Distress Oxide ink to begin with but it's a start.
Someone on Facebook asked me for a tutorial - I didn't really take pictures as I was doing it as I was just going with the flow but here's a description of how I did it.
I started off with a piece of SU Very Vanilla for my background. I added a soft brushing of the Speckled Egg first and then added some Tim Holtz's stencils - Splatter with a darker sponging of the ink and Faded Dots with Speckled Egg and Gathered Twigs Distress Ink. I used a touch of Walnut Spray stain on the Faded Dots stencil and then added that to the background.
On a separate piece of paper I added some more Speckled Egg and Gathered Twigs and used the Wildflowers thinlets to cut out the flowers. From the same paper I cut out the Scribbly Butterflies - as I don't have the glaze I simply pushed the butterfly into my Versamark pad and covered it in clear glaze. I layered it onto another butterfly cut out in brown card stock.
My SU trimmer is quickly running out of sharpness on the blades and as these are no longer available it is starting to rip my card - so I went with it and ripped the edges and then sponged them.
The sentiment is from Tim's Clippings Sticker Book and it was just perfect for this butterfly - I added some linen thread to a last piece of the sponged paper and added some pearls which I also coloured with a bit of the Speckled Egg ink. I added it to some Very Vanilla card stock but sponged the edges first with the Speckled Egg as the background.
I'm adding this into the following challenges :
Creative Artiste Mixed Media #61 - Anything Goes
A Vintage Journey - Rustic
Moving Along with the Times - Things with Wings
Fusion Challenge - Butterfly
Time Out Challenge - word prompt - Butterfly/gardens
