Working from the background up!






 Owl card and Framed Picture

Going my own way!

I have a busy job and life so often feel too tired to craft or my brain just lacks creativity and inspiration.  You tube and Pinterest can be a useful source for ideas and new techniques.  However there is so much to look at and view that my hobby has become watching craft tutorials and ideas rather than doing craft and creating projects!  I am now making an effort only to watch a couple of tutorials and choose something that inspires me and actually get crafting.  I found a pretty butterfly art journal page by artful evidence that created a background using smooching and stencilling.  Inspired I got out my distress inks ....  However after using a cog stencil my background felt a bit dark for butterflies!  So I went more grungy and reached for an owl stamp.  I think this is an example of using a tutorial to set you on the road to crafting a project but then taking a different direction and going your own way to create something very different!

1. dab some distress ink onto your mat - I chose: Vintage photo, pine needles and broken china.   I then spritzed them with water and smootched them onto some thick 12 x 12 card.


2. Once the card was dry I stencilled some cogs and numbers all over it using the pine needles distress ink.  I then cut the card into for pieces 6" x 6" and distress the edges with vintage photo.


3. I die cut a skeleton clock face and distressed that with vintage photo and glued it to the centre of the card.



4.  I tore  a piece of corrugated card, dyed some cheesecloth using the distress inks and die cut a branch and some foliage.




5. I stamped out an owl image on kraft card and coloured it.  I then arranged the layers onto the clock face and added a sentiment.  I placed the finished piece into a frame.
 




6. I also made a card by die cutting a yellow circle for a moon.  I created a halo around the moon using mustard seed distress ink.


7.  I layered this onto some wood paper and added a sentiment and some stars. This owl was not coloured but still looks effective against the moon.

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