August 22 Stampfest at Lynette's

Lynette and I stamped together on Monday at her house.
She made a wonderful seafood pasta salad for lunch.
Then we made cards inspired by pinterest.
Lynette wanted to make some Scribbly bird cards
like the ones I made here
and I wanted to try her new Tim Holtz small crazy birds.
Note: click on image for larger view

Inspired by Barb Mann's Fish & Coral Card - Old Olive

We changed the stamps and colors. 

 Inks: SU tempting turquoise, limeade

Stamps: Balmy Breezes and unknown SU happy birthday 

Inspired by a card on Jacqueline's Craft Nest blog

we used several stamps to duplicate her pretty frame.

Lynette used watercolor crayons to ink the Hero Arts flower stamp

and used cut outs from the Natural Beauty word stamp by Stampin Up.

The top layer was fussy cut and attached with dimensional foam.

Lynette used my Dina Wakley Scribbly Bird cling stamp set making her cards like mine here.

Inks used for the wrinkle free distress backgrounds that Lynette created:

mermaid lagoon, crushed olive, peeled paint and squeezed lemonade.

I used Lynette's Tim Holtz Bird Talk clear stamp set that comes with 3 birds and matching dies, some word stamps and an embossing folder. This set was from Michaels. It seems that the sets vary depending on which store carries them.

We both used her Prismacolor pencils to color our birdies.

Lynette is working on card arrangement.

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Coloring and Painting Scribbly Birds

Here are some Scribbly Bird cards inspired by Anneke De Clerck's bird card blog post 

and Dina Wakley's Media Painted Tag YouTube. 

 

 I embellished wrinkle free distress backgrounds from my stash:

sponged mermaid lagoon ink over a Tim Holtz' Honeycomb stencil,

stamped Tim's Bitty Grunge stamp with stormy sky.

I made my own 3 circle stencil with cardstock and a  5/8 inch punch

applying pearlescent white Adirondak acrylic paint through the circles with a paintbrush.

 

For the open circles, I used Dina's technique-

dab some acrylic paint on the bottom of a paint bottle and apply it to your piece. 

I also found the open side of one of the screw tops of the dabbers worked even better.

It's a pity my Adirondak paint dabbers are drying out before I can use them up.

 

For the Scribbly bird above, I used card stock, 

stamped it with a BoBunny text stamp in pumice stone.

Then on top of that, I stamped Dina's bird on top, using Versafine black onyx ink. 

When dry I used colored pencils to add color.

 Here are some photos of my work along the way.

 I tried Dina's method of dry painting the Scribbly birds, 

which have been stamped on old book paper.

I used red colored pencil for the tiny heart. She used paint. 

Afterward I outlined the heart with a Pitt Artist Pen 0.1 mm-Black India Ink.

Below are the 3 painted Scribbly birds.

 I added the sentiment from the set on some of my cards

cutting out the lines and attaching with Golden Soft Gel (Semi-Gloss) gel medium.

I used various fibers from by stash.

 

 Pulled out some strands of burlap, making circles to resemble a nest.

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