IS IT A BIRD?

Had another play day with Marci yesterday. Once again, we didn't get much done other than working out how to use her Cricut and Marci making the hard decision as to which of my virgin stamps she wants to add to her stash....eventually!

However, I have discovered that just having a like-minded friend around, my MUSE comes back and demands to play.
Before it was time for Marci to leave, I did begin to make an ATC out of scraps on my desk....using the piece of toilet paper that I cleaned the alcohol ink off my brush after painting the half doll the other day...which resulted in a yummy variation of one of my fave colours...orange.
There  was enough of the paper to back two ATCs so before it was time to put the dinner on I actually got two finished, and because my muse was not satisfied for me to sit back and rest on my laurels after dinner (so to speak...it was actually my butt I was sitting on...vbg), I sauntered back to my den and made up another ATC before my eyes told me it was time to sleep.

I often have nights of insomnia, and last night proved to be one of those...along with a semi-serious case of heart-burn (signs of old age), so after tossing and turning for an hour, I eventually got up and had a goodly dose of Bi-Carb soda which caused several relieving burps! By this time I was wide awake so I made a cuppa (Chai) and was forced (muse pushed me) back into my den, where I not only made another ATC, but went thru' a box of scrap images that has been accumulating for-EVA, and threw....yes!...threw some out! By 3 am I was ready for bed.....again!

All that being said...I guess it's time to show you the end result of my day's...and night's creativity!

This is the first of two that are the same that I made in the afternoon.
The wings are 3D mounted.
Lurv that orange paper!

The ATC on the left began life as a  medieval woman transferred onto the music sheet. I gave her a new face, head and a handful of eggs. The fish are 3D mounted.
The other one was also of a medieval woman image transferred to old newspaper but had the same image printed on transparency as an overlay.
The nest and birdie are 3D mounted.
This face image is one of my favourite images.It is a Teesha Moore collage sheet image
but I added the glasses in Photoshop.

ANOTHER TYPE OF BIRD

On Tuesday, my new play-mate, Marcia Smith, came to play with me. Actually, there's more chatting done than playing but we both managed to do a wee bit of arting.
Marci managed to make a mountain of paper-clay doll heads and body parts and I began toying around with a half-doll and a wire tea-light candle holder in the shape of a Christmas tree.

Today, I actually got it finished, and she is nothing like I started out to do.
To begin with, she had PINK clothes which clashed with the coppery coloured fabric that I made her "gown" from, so she got a doing over with some alcohol ink. What magic stuff that is!

I was originally going to use a purchased bird nest and sit it into the tea-light candle holder but it didn't look right sitting on top of it, so I wove a nest of copper wire around the holder, glued it in place and then added some shredded paper and feathers before gluing the little mushroom bird on top of it all.

I had the meshy strips in my stash but as they were white, I gave them a dose of alcohol too...ink that is...vbg. Then it still looked like it needed more oomph but I had to think about what to add to her...until I saw the feathers that I had used in the nest were still on my desk...and the light went on!

Of course, she had to have a feather head-dress too. I found some narrow braid to cover the feather ends around her waist but as it was too white, it got a dose of the  ink as well. A blingy flower on the head-dress finished her off just in time to get her photo taken before the sun went down.

More Crowing!

                Due to a small number of participants in our Felt ATC swap,
                             we are now to make two different ATCs each.

                   I decided to keep to the one theme so here is the first one's mate.
                                            Once again I padded the wing
                              but unfortunately it doesn't show up in the scan.

Crowing Again!

               This month our ATCs are to be of FELT and done in a naive style.

This is my effort.
I have added little black seed beads for the sunflower's seed and the crow's eye.
 It doesn't show up well here but his wing is stuffed so it has a raised effect.

                                                     

Birdies for Spring & FREE Templates

                      This month  PaperArts Group's Mixed Media Swap was to make a
                                      BIRD HOUSE and BIRDS SWAG.

                            I drew up the templates and we all printed them out.
                    If you would like a copy of  the template , leave a "cawment" on
                              here requesting one, along with your email address,
                                                 and I will email it to you.

                        I found it a lot of fun and wouldn't mind making another.

The orange BG is scrapbook paper. I printed out all the others from images of fabrics and old papers I have filed on my PC. All were distressed with Ranger Ink.
          I tore thin strips of tea dyed B&W gingham and plain soft orange
                             fabrics and tied them onto the strings.
         The back of the bird houses and the birds also have been covered
                             with checked and harlequin papers.