circus themed bird house

My first post as a new design team member and I am so excited. I turned a bird feeding house into a circus themed one.

1. Take a wooden bird house and coat it with a layer of gesso, do this again with a layer of white acryllic paint.
2. Mask off the bottom half with tape, and put stripes on with collage tape, paint the top half with red acryllic paint. Trace the stripes with a black pen by hand.
3. Mask of the stripes (after drying the top half) and give it a layer of turqoise acryllic paint, let dry and stencil with a lighter colour turquoise paint the diamonds. make accent dots with a white edding marker.
4. trace the hart onto foam and cut out. Give the foam heart a layer of golden acryllic paint and sponge with the lighter colour.
5. Take a piece of mat card stock and stamp the image of the Whimsical woman on with Stazon Black. Trace the heart over to the card stock and cut out the heart. The heart is slightly smaller then the hight of the image, so you have to cut around the hat and feet.
6. Colour the image and the heart surrounding it with watercolours.
7. put a layer of Versamark on top of the heart and emboss it with ultra high gloss clear embossing powder, repeat this 4 times.
8. Glue the heart with image onto the foam heart with miracle tape 1/2"
9. finish it off with a bow at the top with ribbon of May art and at the bottom with the cute pompoms also from May art, glue that on with miracle tape 1/8".

VLVS products used:

Whimsical woman in dress also on plate 1389

miracle tape 1/2"

miracle tape 1/8"

Ultra High Gloss Clear embossing powder

Stazon Black

and

May art ribbon grosgrain stitiched edge and mini pompoms

Hope you enjoy it!

HERMINE

Time Flies!

 

Hello Everyone! Judy here, this is my first blog post as a
Viva Las Vegastamps DT member!
I hope this project inspires you to get out your stamping supplies and play along.  

I had a lot of fun creating this tutorial to share with you, the
stamps I used:
“Flying bird”
“Time Flies”

I love all the stamps on this plate: #893 
 
My finished tags, 3 1/4" x 4 3/4."

 

 

 

 

To begin; you will need Kromecote glossy cardstock, a tag die and die cutting tool. It’s hard to stop making these once you see how beautiful they look! While you have the supplies out die-cut a few more tags.

Place tag down glossy side up on non stick craft sheet; apply no more than three colors of oil pastels crayons to cover the tag. I used blue, purple, and white.

 

tag with oil pastel crayons

 

After the tag is covered with oil pastel crayons, use a 1" foam brush to add one layer of gesso over the tag. If your gesso is thick, spray the tag with a little water. (You will need a thin coat of gesso to cover tag.) Let dry to touch. Very important, place you tag on a scrap piece of paper and not on your craft sheet. Then use fine sandpaper to remove some of the gesso. Some of oil pastel might be removed down to the Kromecote with just a little blue color, that's OK. Clean residue from tag with soft dry cloth.

 

Place your sanded tag back on craft sheet, apply distress inks using Ranger foam ink applicator, stamp bird and quote images with black archival ink, while distress ink and black ink is still wet, place tag on scrap paper and immediately pour Viva Las Vegastamps Ultra High-Gloss Clear Embossing Powder over the tag. Pour off excess and then heat set with embossing tool. Portions of the tag and images will have a high gloss finish, other portions of tag will be matte finish.  

 

Die cut a tag with chipboard. Adhere Miracle Tape on back of finished tag and adhere to chipboard tag. Attach May Arts Ribbon to the top with a mini stapler to finish.

 

close-up

 

The results; Amazing! I love the finish using the ultra high gloss embossing powder.

 

VLVS Supplies:

Plate #893

Ultra High Gloss embossing powder

Inkssential foam applicator

Miracle Tape

Heat tool

 

 

Other supplies:

Mays Arts Ribbon

Oil Pastel Crayons; Caran d'Ache

Sizzix; Scallop tag die

Ranger distress inks; frayed burlap, stormy sky
Ranger Craft sheet

Ranger mini-stapler

Ranger archival black ink

Die cutting machine

Fine grade sandpaper

1" foam brush

Gesso (liquid)

Chipboard


Tag # 2
After I finished making the first tag,
I was playing around with different paints and came up with this technique.
The supplies are the same as above with the change of one product.
Instead of gesso, I used Pearl Dabber paint by Ranger over the oil pastels.  

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you for viewing my first tutorial!