Bird Crazy

Tuesday with Tara {take 35}

Happy Tuesday! I’m glad you’re here today! It’s March 1, the sun is shining where I’m at and it’s got me thinking about spring and bright colors and inky fingers and other things that make me smile…

First up today, I’ve got a winner to announce! I took all the comments left on last week’s blog post and the facebook page post, and used a random number generator to come up with a winner! (If it’s not you, stick around till the end of this post for another chance to win a prize!)

The winner is…

NANCY L.

Congrats! Contact us with your mailing address and we’ll get your feather stencil sent off to you!

Today we’re moving from feathers to BIRDS- just a little crazy bird today 🙂 I mixed up another custom paste for my background using a couple shades of Distress Ink and Transluscent paste and a generous amount of chunky glitter by American Crafts. I stamped my sentiment first, then placed the Crafter’s Workshop stencil over it and applied paste with a palette knife. Once the paste was dry, I sprinkled some Color Burst over it and spritzed. It made a fun background!

My crazy bird was also colored with a mix of Color Burst and Distress Markers, then finished off with a generous amount of Stickles Glitter Glue 🙂

Hope you like my crazy, sparkly bird card and it brings a smile to your day! Everything was done on Watercolor paper today, so today you can win a package of Distress Watercolor Cardstock!

Just leave a comment on this blog post and let me know- is it sunny where you are today? Winner will be announced next Tuesday on the blog! Earn an extra chance to win by commenting on the pinned post on our facebook page too!

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Tuesday with Tara {take 5}

2 Comments 4 Aug Tara

Hey! Happy Tuesday! Since I hear things have gotten a little BIRD CRAZY in the store, I thought I’d share a card I made with those awesome stamps… this one was made for my husband (we just celebrated our 2nd wedding anniversary yesterday!) for Valentine’s day, but it’s just a fun take on the stamps that I hope you’ll enjoy!

My crazy bird was stamped twice in black on watercolor paper and colored up with Distress Markers & a water pen. If you’re lucky enough to purchase the new dies as well as the stamps, you’ll be able to easily cut out some pieces (like the wings) to layer 3d over the base image. I used some fine tip scissors and foam squares to add some dimension 🙂 All of this was layered over a bird stamped on a small tag, so I didn’t have to worry about cutting out the feet or smaller details like that! A bit of clear texture paste was applied to my tag through a small detail stencil to act as a resist under some Distress Ink which I did around the edges and corners.

I used some vintage (aka really old ones that I’m not sure are still available!) alphabet stamps from Hero Arts to stamp my sentiment and the big 4 is from a Tim Holtz BIGZ alphabet die. The hearts & patterned paper were also from my stash, but you can totally mix things up with whatever is in YOUR stash to create something similar yourself 🙂

I used a clear Wink of Stella glitter pen to add some shimmer and some Glossy Accents on the eyes to make them pop a bit as well. These crazy birds have been CRAZY popular and I think even Tim Holtz was surprised by it, so it’s fun to see the new additions to the collection that you can use with these stamps to really get some mileage out of them! They’re really a ton of fun to play with, and if they make you smile I hope you’ll pick up a set and get to work/play with them 🙂

Have a very happy Tuesday and a creative week!

Inky hugs,

Tara

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