'Hello Birds'

Hello 2Crafty friends!

Today I'm sharing a fun and cute canvas with lots of colors and ...birds :)

I had this beautiful set of 2Crafty chippie birds for some time and I was just

waiting for a great idea to come up and use them.

The set contains three sizes of birds (two of each size), so I came up with a bird pyramid!!

I decided to use 4 of the 6 birds, not only for the reason to keep my pyramid not too high, but also to use the particular white cardboard I had. I measured a balsa wood at the same size of the cardboard, cut it in 3 and glued it down. I painted both of them with gesso, blue silks and brown distress stain.

Ι didn't use any stamps or stencils, as I wanted to keep the background quite and simple and focus on the birds.

To alter the birds I used silks paints, a little bit of gesso, stamps and a black permanent pen...

First I painted them with just a small amount of gesso very carefully, because I didn't want to cover the beautiful engraved pattern of them. Τhe white gesso helps the colors to show bright and right.

After the gesso dried, I painted them with the silks. Then I stamped on them here and there and painted some details with a pretty thin paintbrush again with silks. Last thing to do was to draw the legs with the black permanent pen.

For the tittle I used the "Script Font L/C Alphas". I really like this script because of the
calligraphy type - the letters abutting each other so nicely like they are handwritten.

I altered them with white crackle paint and I love how they turned out!

2Crafty Chipboard products used on this project:

Beaky Birds

Script Font L/C

'Sweet Memories Card'

This small project has many uses: you can use it as a tiny canvas, frame it, or give it to friend
as a card. I used quite a few materials to create it and I love it because it's so small :)

For the background I used the "Circular Panel" 6x6 as a stencil with Dimensional paint.
It's really a great use of that kind chipboard because it's thicker than a regular stencil and
you get a very impressive result!

I also used a leaf from the "Leafy Silhouettes" set and an arrow from the
"Mini Fast Forward Arrows" set to embellish the project.