Sunday Stampers - Blue (or red)

Hels has set a challenge today for Sunday Stampers to use red or blue - in fact, she hasn't, at all, her friend Dan has. Hels, I hope your back is better!   We were even allowed to omit stamping this time, as Hels had shown us something without stamping.  I thought, no chance!

But looking at this when I took the photo, I did nearly manage it.

Anyhow, as Liverpool are doing their current normal frustrating thing by not winning or even playing particularly well, I have had a bit of a play.

Some time ago (again!) I bought some jigsaw pieces which have been sitting in a box, unused.....) On a blog surf somewhere I saw some used to great effect and so today pulled one out of the pack.

I started by painting it black with a paint dabber, splodging some Terra in a couple of corners and then stamped a small script stamp into it, (this is all the stamping there is!) Once dry, coloured it blue (a Nick Bantock ink this - though it's come out a bit greeny) spritzed some blue DI/perfect pearl mix over it, and some blue goop (inka gold paint in steel blue)

it sat there a while, during the Grand Prix whilst I pretended to decide what to do next.   In the end I decided to cut out the bird and cage alterations die on a piece of Lost and Found paper - it has a lovely flower pattern on one side, plain bluey-green the other. Punched a few flowers out of the leftover piece of paper and stuck them to the birdcage.

Used some tissue tape, an adage ticket and memo pin for final accents, and some walnut stain distress stickles on the birdcage - probably should have let it dry properly before trying to photograph it and blog it!