Birdy's Christmas Song

Hi ya, I can't believe I haven't shared anything since Monday, I think it's because I have had a lovely week playing and thinking up some tutorials.  Today I have a tag swap I did (Christmas eeeeeek) and all weekend I have bits and bobs to share, also in July we are playing with masks for Creative Expressions and I asked very kindly if I could have the Dina Wakely masks and I got them, so I am planning lots of techniques all the way on a Monday in July!!! How exciting is that, hence all the playing :-).  I also have been playing in my journal as well, so I shall blog that this weekend so busy busy busy having lots of creative fun :-).  So onto my tag, plus of course the normal step by step lol.
I would like to enter my creation into the following challenges :-)
Fashionable Stamping Challenge - Birds and the Bees
Rhedd and Rosie Challenge  - Anything Goes
Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge - Spray it, Ink it, Paint It, Smear It, Emboss It (did most except the emboss it lol)
Crafty Creations Challenge - Things with Wings
Fab 'n' Funky Challenge - Christmas
City Crafter Challenge - Red, White and Blue

I bought the Dina Wakely squiggly bird stamps not long after the came

out in the UK but this is the first time I got to play with them lol.

Of course Christmas wouldn't be my first choice!!!!  SHE (of course a she!) is also

featured in my journal this weekend as well :-)

Lots of pictures, I put a really nice metallic glaze over the entire tag at

the end, it's so strange, you move it one way it sparkles, move it another and it

looks matt, love it.  Also can you see all the texture?  Of course I couldn't help but

really lay on some depth for my tag swap :-)

Of course I had my camera out during the process so here goes .....................

I used some Golden gel medium and added some angel paper (think that's what's it's called).

Then I added a few Christmas trees from Dylusions Oh Christmas Tree stencil with

some Paperartsy Grunge Paste.  Oooops think I added gesso as well before that lol.

Now you only get the finished bit on this process, what a palava, I really need

to practise on my spraying paints, I think I mix them too thickly as I have managed

to block 5 spray bottles trying to spray this, 2 of which are still blocked 

(I will get them unblocked at some point but I was at the point of sending them out the

craft room window by the time I had finishing spraying lol).

I mixed Paperartsy Fresco paint Blood Orange and Bora Bora,

I kept spraying, drying, spraying, drying, oh and some dripping (you get the gist lol) until I had

just the right look (oh and the fact I couldn't stand unblocking the spray bottle again lol).

It was worth it though, any ideas on the mix ratio of paint to water for spraying?

any answers really appreciated.

Now I had won these Dr Ph Martin's Bombay India Ink last year from a stamping magazine

 and only just starting to appreciate what they can do.  

The colour Magenta is so vivid, it really is gorgeous.

I added some to the top and let the ink drip down.

Next I added some stencilling, I used Dylusions Chequered Dots with Fresco Snowflake

first then nudged the stencil and used bora bora and blood orange in different places.

I stamped some designs on tissue paper (used Stampers Anonymous Reindeer Flight, JOFY

19 and 3) and then stamped the Squiggly Birds on smooth Paperartsy card stock with

Archival jet black ink pad.  I didn't use the Santa please stop here sign in the end, was

going to have Miss Birdy holding it in her beak but it wouldn't fit :-).

I stuck down the tissue paper with Glue and Seal and left

until dry, oh and I stamped the birdy's feet as well on tissue.

When it was dry I added some bottle top stamping with Fresco snowflake then

went over the whole tag with Fresco Metallic Glaze.

A few close up pics before birdy :-)

She was coloured with Blood Orange and Bora Bora paint and then

had highlights with Faber Castell Polychromas cobalt green and middle cadmium red.

Then the tag had some Treasure Gold Rose Quartz added over the texture, some promarker

scribbles over some of the tissue lines to make them look like the scribbly bird.

some Tim Holtz seasonal chit chat stickers and I stamped the tweet and chirp on some cardstock and

then covered covered both with some bora bora that I used on my finger so I could rub most of

it off as it is an opaque paint.

Right I better be off, hope you enjoyed Miss Birdy, I shall be back tomorrow with some more play time. Hope you have a lovely evening and a super start to the weekend.
Happy Crafting :-)
Hugs Kezzy xxxxx