Fractured Doodle-Doo

 Fractured Doodle-Doo

Still another fracture card from me to you!

stamp set used:  Unity Coffee-Doodle-Doo stamp set and papers

Now Unity stamp company calls this a coffee bird, but I'm a tea gal ... so for me ... she's a tea drinking bird.  You will be seeing more of this tea drinker soon.

Fracture cards are creative to make, and easy.  I done several of them so I'll just link you up to ones I have done here, and here for you to check out.

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Circle paper birds

 Circle paper birds

I went a little crazy making these circle paper bird cards.

Above card I'm going to enter into a Tic Tac Toe challenge with friends. 

I did the third line - Pink, stencil, birds.  Pink is easy, the color.  Stencil is the clouds.  Birds is a given ... circle paper birds.

Below are more of these easy to create circle paper birds.

Do you want to know how I made them?

All you have to do is get out your pattern papers, circle punches, or circle dies.

Punch or die cut circles ... of any size ... then fold the circle almost in half.

Look at the pictures, and you can see how they are folded to show both sides of the pattern papers.

For the tails, and beaks I just cut out shapes.  The legs are hand drawn with a black pen.  Easy at that!

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Art journal adventure wk#44 eyes and #45 birds

Two more weeks added to my yearly art journal.

Left side - week #44 theme Eyes

I started this page by just brayering some green paint ... I'll tell you a secret... I brayered the paint because I really started this page with an idea that I would draw my own eyes.  Well, that didn't work and if you look close you will see a hand drawn eye under the green paint.  So then of course, I went to my stamps and found an old cube stamp with these eyes in squares.  after that I went into my stash of papers and found a sheet with what look like postage stamps of eyes so there you have my eye themed page.

Right side - week #45 theme Birds

First I stamped two birds of which I had hand carved a couple of years ago.  why I used a rust color is beyond me .... just happen to be handy.  then back to that stash of papers where I found the postage eyes; I found bird postage so why not just continue with added it to my birds page.

thank you for stopping by.  more of my art journal pages to follow.

Art Journal wk #36 Wing It and #37 Trash to treasure

week #36 (left side) Wing It

stamps used:  Joggles bird, MFP wings/sayings

week #37 (right side) Trash to treasure

I have been very bad with sharing my art journal pages from the weekly challenge I am participating in for the year.  So it is time to start playing catch up here.

wk #36 Wing It page

first I stamped the wings with grey ink a few times on the page.  blended some color with distress inks on separate piece of cardstock and over stamp the wings on it.  fussy cut the wings and adhered to the page.  stamped bird on separate piece of cardstock, added some color with blending tool and distress inks.  stamped the bird a second time on some pattern paper and did some paper piecing.  set her (the bird) aside stamped bigger wings on some of the left over cardstock I blended distress ink on to and fussy cut the big wings out and adhered to page.  adhered bird over the big wings.  stamped a couple of the sayings on the page and called it a day for this page.
wk #37 Trash to treasure
Now for this page I did all die cuts I had left over from other projects.  simple but to the point.
I have a small plastic container on my table with left over pieces ... whether they are die cuts, stamped images or whatever....and I have them in front of me so if I need it I have it.

Half circles

I'm going to mix it up a bit today showing you two cards with the same technique but different themes.
The technique is partial die cut ... this is the name I'm giving this technique ... I'm sure there is some cute name out there in cyber land and if there is please leave me a comment and I'll change it.
On to this technique ... die cut a circle or any shape will work for this technique.  take the negative part of the die or the cut out section and place it on the side of your card with part of it hanging off the card.  This is also called a reverse mask.  add the color using whatever tool you have available ... this can be blending tool, sponges or stipple brushes.  for the next step you can leave the mask on and stamp some images as I did with the Egret (if this is not an Egret please leave a comment) card or you can remove the mask and stamp as on the holiday card.  the difference is that on the Egret card the Egret is hanging outside the colored area with the cattails are only inside the colored circle.  on the holiday card all images were stamped with the mask removed.
stamps - Just For Fun
ribbons - SU

Put a bird on it!

Yes, I put three birds on it!  here are two postcards I stamped with Ranger dylusions Put a bird on it stamp set.  guess I'm a little bird crazy lately with either TH crazy birds or now with this new set I bought a couple of weeks ago.  basically I stamped the birds with a waterproof black ink then went to town water coloring with my distress pads that I just smooshed on craft sheet then picked up the color with a waterbrush.
entering in following challenge:
1.  Curtain Call: snowcone - inspiration challenge - inspired by the colors