My 3rd & final Guest Designer spot by Anneliese Bates

For my last project, I thought I would do some of what I like doing best ... Art Journaling ... I used the stamps to help create the background and border on this page.
The stamps I used were:
Baroque Background A6
Birds of a feather A6

I started by spritzing the page with water, then adding Ranger Colour wash in oranges and greens. spritz with a bit more water to blend them together.

Find Colour wash here

Next add some Distress Inks and blend with a baby wipe

Then using some stencils add some circles, the large ones I did with Colour wash, the small with adirondack dabber in Snow Cap

I then highlighted areas of the page with a dabber in Pool.

I used some archival ink and the baroque background stamp to create a border down the side of the page Archival ink can be found here

I added the birdcage image next using one of the phrase stamps as the chain by which it hangs, and I stamped the bird house next, and used the other phrase to create the post on which it stands.

Last but not least I added a computer generated phrase " A little bird told me" inked it, painted it & distressed the edges with Distress ink ...

I can't write what it is the little bird told me yet,as it's a big secret, can't even tell my husband yet lol, But it's an exciting secret to do with someone who I know and really it's their secret but let's just say I had a friend who ....?!!
Hope you like this last project of mine, Thanks to Jennie & Hels for inviting me to play here... if you did like it please feel free to pop over and visit my blog over at www.anneliesebates.co.uk
see you soon :o) x

No.1 of my guest designer spots ...By Anneliese Bates

Hi, I'm Anneliese from over at Creative Journey Workshops. The girls here kindly asked me to do a guest designer spot & so here I am :o)
For this one I used the Insects and Butterflies Stamp No. 1 # 017 which you can find Here
and the Botanical Stamps Plate 1 # 038 which you can find Here

I started off by creating the tag that fronts the card

To create this I used a manilla tag and blended Tumbled glass, Wild honey & barn door distress inks to get the warm but soft background. distress inks here
I added a strip of tissue tape (sketchbook butterflies)you can find that here
I then Stamped the floral images using Rangers Archival ink in Sepia Archival inks here
Placing them half off the tag.
The next thing I did was to stamp a butterfly using black archival ink on to some cream card stock, I then cut this out and adhered it to the tag, only gluing the central body so that the wings can be lifted up to add dimension to the card.

The next stage was to get some textured paper, tear around the edges and then stamp the same butterfly on to it using the sepia archival ink again.

Then I took a page from an old french book and inked the edges using Brushed Corduroy Distress ink

I stamped a further two butterflies, but this time onto the textured paper, again in the black archival ink and cut them both out.

Lastly I folded a piece of dark brown A4 card stock in half to create the card and I added the elements to it, I added a flash of gold paint dabber around the edges to blend it down. You can find the gold Dabber here

Hope you liked this card ... see you soon for my next visit !
Take care x