feathers – Stamped Smiles

Hello friends and happy Friday to you! It’s been so crazy warm over my way and I’m hoping this day finds us with a bit of a break in temperatures.

Today starts a new challenge over at the Alphabet Challenge Blog! Our next letter is F and it was my turn to choose a theme for this letter, so I have chosen “F” is for Feather(s) *Remember that this is a bi-weekly challenge, so you have two weeks to enter* I hope you will find some time to play along! Here’s what I’ve created:

I thought this would be a fun theme to play around with as you could just add a bird or anything with feathers. I look forward to seeing the projects for this one! I was happy to have this chance to pull out some things in my stash that I hadn’t used yet.

I’ve used the Taylored Expressions “The Thing With Feathers” stamp set and long with the “Wings of Love” stamp set for this card.

I started with a kraft colored cardstock cut with a scallop rectangle die and masked off the edges to ink blend and stamp a smaller feather around the edges with brown ink. I then took the flying birds image from the “Wings of Love” stamp set and stamped it in white ink. I also decided to add some white splatter over that. This panel was then attached to an A2 top folding white card base.

For the large feather at the bottom: I used my VersaMark ink pad to just ink up the edges of the feather, then I silver heat embossed just the edges of the feather. Without removing the feather stamp from my MISTI, I inked up the entire feather with VersaMark ink and then used a white opal embossing powder over the entire image. Since this embossing powder is translucent, the silver edges that I embossed still showed through. I die cut it out with the coordinating die and popped it up with foam tape at the bottom of the card.

The sentiment was stamped with grey ink and cut out with a coordinating die that I attached with thin foam tape at the top of the kraft panel. I added some clear sequins to finish it off.

Thanks so much for stopping in today! I hope you will grab your feather(s) and play along with us! I’ll see you tomorrow for a new Art Journal Page!

Challenges:

Gem of a Craft Challenge – #7 Anything Goes
Ally’s Angels – #95 Anything Goes
The Creative Crafters – #89 Anything Goes
Crafter’s Cafe – #320 Anything Goes optional: masculine
Pammie’s Inky Pinkies – PIP2525 Anything Goes

Hello friends and happy weekend! I have some more inspiration for you using the “LIGHT/KEEPING IT LIGHT” theme over at Art Journal Journey that I’m hosting this month! There are so many options to play with as well as inspiration, so hope you can join in the fun!

Loved getting messy with a rainbow watercolor on this one! I fell in love with these feathers from Taylored Expressions and knew the large images would be wonderful for an AJ page!

For the Background: Started with my usual 5.5″x8.5″ Canson Watercolor 140# cold press paper that was pre-punched at the top with a Zutter machine. I stamped each feather with a grey waterproof ink. I then used my set of Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolor and blended in the rainbow colors over the feathers. After it dried, I splattered some of the gold watercolor over top.

I then used a large stamp with several words and stamped it second generation over the two opposite corners in the grey ink. The words at the bottom and throughout the falling feathers were computer generated and cut out. I inked around the edges and glued them to the page. I did take a strip of gold mirror cardstock across the bottom and the “feather title” was made into a banner with a layer of grey cardstock behind it. I added one gold rhinestone to each feather.

If I haven’t mentioned why I like to art journal, it’s simply something that gives me the freedom to create any style, any medium and no fear of trying something new as this is something personal for me only. I don’t give away my art journal pages. It’s something that I can release in art what comes from my heart and head…and that’s fine with me. If you haven’t tried it, I encourage you to just have fun with it and let go.

I thank you kindly for stopping by and for your kind words…I truly appreciate any way that you interact with me and I’m glad you’re here! See you next time!

Challenges: