Friday 17 May 2013

A Little Bird Told Me...

Following on from yesterday, I had a piece of grunge pasted mesh left over. It was too good to waste, so I took the facing journal page and painted it with South Pacific Fresco paint.

I then laid the mesh, diamond shape-wise on the page and squashed some more grunge paste through it..
I repeated it below the first one.



I then took the Roman Letters stencil again. and cobalt archival ink. I did this sparingly.


The mesh was then painted with Blood Orange, and dried.  I cut the bird die again (making sure to cut it so that the bird could face the one on the other page, and stuck him to the journal with glossy accents.

Took an alphabet stamp set and wrote out A Little Bird Told Me.

Thank goodness for baby wipes, because my 'B' is mounted the wrong way round on the peg (and though I have written on the stamp to show which way up to use it, I didn't look this time...) Luckily I was quick enough to get it off before the archival ink dried on the painted surface..!


... a pair of little love birds!

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10 comments:

  1. Carol Q17 May 2013 at 16:41

    great texture effect Helen!

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  2. france papillon17 May 2013 at 16:44

    love the contrast between both! yummy yummy texture too ;)
    xx
    france

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  3. Julie Lee17 May 2013 at 17:07

    Isn't it a pain when you do that with letters!I'm really challenged about imagining words or letters backwards! You wouldn't know that anything had gone amiss, though, thanks to your quick reaction. I like the little birds facing each other against this textured backdrop. x

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  4. brenda17 May 2013 at 17:31

    Love that lovely aqua colour.

    Last weekend and I don't usually mind too much because it means more outdoors, but with this weather what one earth to do with no footie.

    B x

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  5. sam21ski17 May 2013 at 17:40

    Oooh fab pages, love how the birdies are facing each other

    Sam xxx

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  6. Lin17 May 2013 at 17:54

    Beautiful colurs Helen and the birds are great...that mesh looks fab...need to try this :D

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  7. Virginia17 May 2013 at 18:19

    Oh I did an online survey today to find out what colour I am - apparently I'm turquoise - so I'm loving your page!

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  8. craftytrog18 May 2013 at 09:43

    Great effects Helen, another technique on my 'to do' list! x

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  9. Bleubeard and Elizabeth19 May 2013 at 12:33

    I've had that same problem before with stencils getting turned upside down. It's hard to correct unless you catch them in time, which obviously, you did.

    Love the texture of the mesh and I adore the two facing love birds.

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  10. Words and Pictures19 May 2013 at 22:18

    Delicious brightly coloured version of your cute bird... the mesh gives such great texture!
    Alison x

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