Birds Printers Tray

Hello Everyone, 

Shilpa here,

Today, I have colorful project to share with you.

Birds Printers Tray

It is a MDF printers tray which I colored with acrylic paints. I've used Graphic 45 Botanical Tea papers in the background.

Artistic Stamper has got cutest collection of Bird stamps and this project is dedicated to them.

I've used Money Bird, Mystical bird, Mechanical bird and Funky bird stamps designed by Neil Walker. And small bird in the middle is from 'Birds of a feather' stamp collection.

I stamped all birds with Ranger Archival jet black ink, colored them with distress inks -
Blue birds - Broken china, Faded Jeans, Peacock feather,
Pink Birds - Victorian velvet, worn lipstick and dusty concord

Leaves are also handmade. I stamped Autumn leaves designed by Katy Leitch with Leaf green archival ink. Cut them and applied Peeled paint distress ink at the edges. Aren't they look real?
Here are some of the close up views.

Hope you are inspired by my project to use the stamps in a different way.

Artistic stamper has also got New Wonderful stamp collection designed by Debbie Cotton, you can find them here.

Thanks  so much for stopping by today

Supplies used:

Artistic stamper stamps - Money Bird, Mechanical Bird, Funky Bird, Mystical Bird    Birds of a Feather

Katy Leitch designed Autumn  Leaves 

Distress Inks - Broken China, Faded jeans, Peacock feather, Victorian Velvet, Worn lipstick, dusty concord.

Ranger Archival inks - Jet black, Leaf Green

Money Bird by Emma

Hi everyone, Emma here and it's time for me to share my first piece of this month. For this piece I decided to work on wood and and use the gorgeous Money Bird stamp from Neil Walker. As always, I really hope you love what I made and I've taken lots of photos to show all the detail...

...and here's what I used and how I created this piece. To begin with I chose to use a block of wood, approximately 10 x 21cm in size. I primed the wood with Gesso and then added some texture onto the wood using a stencil that I have in my stash and some Paperartsy Grunge Paste. Once the paste was dry, I added the colour using Adirondack Paint Dabbers and then highlighted the paste with some Treasure Gold Gilding Wax. 

A quick blast with the heat gun to dry everything super quick because I'm very impatient and can't wait before I then added some Tissue Tape all around the sides of the block of wood. Once that is all finished, I'm then ready to add my layers of stamping.

I used the Dots Background stamp and stamped this directly onto the wood with white acrylic paint and used the Calligraphic Mat 11 and stamped the script using black Archival Ink. Another blast of heat and then I'm ready to stamp the Money Bird.

First, I stamped the image of the bird onto the painted wood with black Archival Ink. I then stamped three separate images of the bird onto watercolour card and coloured these using Distress Marker Pens.

Once happy with the shading, I cut each of the layers out but cutting away sections so that I could decoupage the bird onto my wood. I layered each of the sections using silicone glue and added highlights onto the tail feathers and plume, using a white gel pen. I also used the gel pen to colour in the flowers onto the image that I stamped onto the wood.

Next, I made some handmade paper flowers using the Sizzix/Tim Holtz Tattered Florals die for the roses and also I used some paper flowers in my stash to create the other flower. I sprayed all the separate flower pieces with Dylusions Ink Sprays in Vibrant Turquoise and Fresh Lime and then made them into dimensional blooms. I spritzed each of the blooms with the Perfect Copper Perfect Pearls mist.

Once the flowers were completely dry, I added them to my wooded block together with some seam binding that I dyed using Distress Stains. 

To complete my piece, I added an Idea-ology Word Band, some Film Strip Ribbon and some pins and wooden embellishments that I had in my stash. Finally, I used some cotton reel spools, which I painted using the same colours as I used on my wooden block and added these as feet.

So, that's it from me for today and thank you so much for taking the time to visit to see what I've created. I'm really looking forward to reading all your comments.

I'll be back later this month with another piece and don't forget we have a fabulous challenge throughout June and we would love you to join in. The challenge is all about Makes For Men and just click HERE for all the details.

See you all again soon...bye for now!

Emma x