Tuesday Technique - Blue bird & Graphic45 Botanical Tea

I'm a sucker for birds, well pretty much anything nature-themed if I'm honest, but especially birds, so I couldn't resist the Graphic45 Botanical Tea paper pad. Then when I got it home I wondered what I'd do with it. I mean, you can only find homes for so many covered boxes lol! So I wanted to make a collection of cards using the papers as a backdrop. This starts the design process. Ideas sparking away. What will I use for a focal point? I get out all the bird stamps, and have an idea...

 

"Bluebird"

I think this bird stamp started out as a thrush, but it's turned into something otherworldly.

 

"Bird"

The bird is stamped onto watercolour paper using Ranger Archival ink and coloured using Derwent Inktense pencils, then water added and the paper left overnight to dry thoroughly. The next day, the bird is dipped into clear UTEE, and a feather fixed into the UTEE. I like to add a little blob of UTEE over the base of the shaft of the feather just as extra insurance to keep it in place.

 

"Foliage"

The diecut foliage is coloured with Derwent Inktense pencils to match the background paper, then shaped and adhered to the background using blobs of Pinflair glue.

I made a few of these birds, so there are some more cards to be made yet!

Ingredients:

Graphic45 Botanical Tea paper pad

Martha Stewart stamp set Birds

Spellbinders Foliage & Carnation dies

Ranger Archival ink pad, jet black

Derwent Inktense Pencils & water brush

UTEE

feathers