Crafty Individuals bird card

Hi Everyone!!

I made this card yesterday and couldn't resist using the new woodgrain background stamp from Crafty Individuals. This has to be one of my favourite background stamps - It's so versatile and just goes so well with so many stamps.

Start by cutting a piece of white card to fit on a 7x7 card blank.

Using a blending brush, colour the background with tea dye distress ink.

Stamp the Woodgrain background along one side. You'll need to stamp it again on the bottom half as the stamp won't be big enough to cover the whole piece of card. I used a piece of thin copier paper to cover the stamped image then stamped it a second time. If you feel there is a definite line along the join use a rubber tip tool to pick up some brown ink and blend the lines into each other until your happy with the overall look. 

Randomly stamp some more of the woodgrain stamp on the right hand side the card. Then stamp part of the Inky Script background in the empty spaces. 

Darken the edges with your blending brush and brushed corduroy distress ink. Add some faded blue distress ink in places. 

Using a scoring board score along the main wooden planks to add some texture.

Flip the card over and score along all the edges of the card to create a beveled edge.

Mount the background onto black card then onto your pre-folded 7x7 card blank.

Stamp the A is for apple bird image in black and emboss with clear embossing powder. 

Cut the image down to size.

Stamp and emboss the branches from the Be wild elements stamp set and some foliage around the bottom.

Hold a piece of scrap paper where you'd like your horizon line and lightly add some faded jeans distress ink to the top section. I didn't bother masking the image on this occasion as I coloured with colouring pencils. Cover the skyline with scrap paper and lightly add some peeled paint distress ink to the grassy area.

Colour the image with your desired medium - I used the Castle Arts Gold pencil set. Using a green pencil add some shading under the log and apple.

Use a ruler add a thin border around the edge of card using a black sharpie. 

Cut a piece of brown card just slightly larger than your topper. Add some Rose gold gilding polish from creative expressions around the edges. 

Finally mount onto a piece of black card then onto your main card. 

Thank you for joining me.

X - Dena - X

 

Crafty Individuals bird card

Hi Everyone!!!

Sharing this card I made for my Grandad's birthday.

I've just noticed this photo is a little blurry - not sure how that happened.

Stamp the lovely Bird stamp in black ink and emboss with clear embossing powder.

Using a blending brush, carefully add some clouds to the background with faded jeans distress inks. To do this lightly ink to lower section, then place the clouds stencil to cover the lower section of the image and flick the ink away from the stencil (being careful not to apply ink to the bird). Move the stencil up to create the second layer of clouds. Keep going until the whole sky is covered, keep swapping and changing the cloud stencils to create different shape clouds.

Colour the rest of the image, for this I used Ecoline water colour brush pens.

Cut to size and mount on a piece of black card. 

Take another piece of card and stamp inky script in brown ink. Use a blending brush to apply a mix of tea dye and faded jeans distress inks. Tear the edges.

Cut the woodgrain paper into a square and mount onto a piece of black card. Then mount onto a 7x7 card blank.

Stick the script into place.

Using  silicone glue stick some sisal fibers in place, then stick the bird image over the fibers. 

Stamp and emboss the sentiments, cut them down to size and mount onto black card.

I'm not sure what make the Grandad sentiment is, I've had it several years and don't seem to have its original packaging. 

Thank you for joining me.

X-Dena-X