Blue Birds Chirping in Birch Trees

This card came together after playing around with inks and stencils.

I made a mixed media background with oxide and regular Distress inks, smooshing and spritzing with water, then adding a couple of stencils and a couple of stamps.

I die cut the birds and birch trees twice, watercoloured the birds dark blue, added a bit of watercoloured shading to the trees, and layered the two layers together to add dimension.

Instead of a sentiment, I used a Tim Holtz clippings sticker.

It's for the Color Throwdown Challenge:

And for CAS Mix Up (watercolouring with anything that flies):

 

 

Supplies:
Stamps - various mixed media stamps
Ink - various blue and grey Distress and Distress Oxide inks
Paper - mixed media cs, white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - TCW stencils, Tim Holtz sentiment sticker, birch and bird dies

Barn and Blue Jays

I didn't think I'd be able to do this week's Merry Monday challenge as I couldn't recall having any stamps of barns, and then suddenly remembered a really really old stamp I've had forever that has a barn in the background.

I stamped it and coloured it with coloured pencils, added a sentiment above it, trimmed it down and matted with red, and popped it up on fun foam on a dark green card base.

Then I took my Quickie glue pen and went over all the snowy bits and added glitter.  In real life, there is a lot of sparkle.  Here's a close-up that shows the barn and hopefully some of the sparkle:

I'm saving it for my sister who used to live on a farm.

Supplies:

Stamps - Northwoods image, Make an Impression sentiment

Ink - Versafine Onyx Black

Paper - white, red, and dark green cs

Size - A2

Accessories - coloured pencils, glitter, fun foam