Good morning my lovelies, its inspiration time over at We Love 2 Create and you've still got a whole week to be in with a chance of winning some gorgeous goodies from Premium Craft Brands. Its a nice easy theme, 'Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes' and as always my teamies have created some beautiful artwork to inspire you. I've altered an mdf birdhouse for my DT offering. I just love the blues in the PanPastel range, they are soooooo pretty!
I've used white gesso to prime the mdf and then got busy with lots of Ultramarine Blue Tint PanPastel and a little ultramarine blue and some White Coarse PanPastel medium which is lovely and shimmery in real life. I've used a background stamp from Chocolate Baroque, stamped with versamark and dusted with Ultramarine Blue PanPastel. I've also added some stencilling for a little texture, using a flower stencil and texture paste coloured with more Ultramarine Blue PanPastel.
To decorate the birdhouse, I've stamped the butterfly, from the Premium Art Brands 'Postcard' stamp set and some Dreamees flowers with versamark and dusted with my PanPastels. I cut everything out and arranged it on the birdhouse, adding some glitter glue to the centre of the flowers. I've added some Pewter PanPastels around all the edges and decorated the roof with some lace, ribbon and a metal filigree butterfly.
I'm entering this project in the following challenges:
Altered Eclectics: anything goes
Brown Sugar: anything but a card
Crafty Time: anything but a card
Petal Lu: anything goes
Rhedd's Creative Spirit: anything goes
Wags'n'Whiskers: glitter/sparkle
Thanks so much for popping by today, hope to see you again soon
Claire xx
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This is so lovely and a great gift for someone too.
ReplyDeleteLorraine
Such a pretty birdhouse,love the delicate colour palette...
ReplyDeleteThank you for joining us over at http://rheddscreativespirit.blogspot.co.uk/
I love altering birdhouses and this one is just beautiful! Thanks for sharing with us at Rhedd's Creative Spirit this month! Nanette, DT
ReplyDeleteGreat project, I love it! Thanks for playing with us at Brown Sugar Challenge this week...Good luck!
ReplyDeleteGiada
Super cute!!! Thank you for joining us at Wags N Whiskers, good luck!!! Amy DT
ReplyDeleteI love the colors on this. It looks so elegant!! Thanks for playing with us at Crafty Time Challenges!
ReplyDeleteGeorgous Claire another fabulous project love the colours too, just great sweetie Hugs Terry xxx
ReplyDeleteWhat a beuatiful bird house is this. Thank you for joining BSC
ReplyDeleteI love your pretty birdhouse and you have inspired me to make one!Thanks for sharing this with us at Rhedd's Creative Spirit this month. Good Luck. Rupa (DT).
ReplyDeleteOh the delicate blues are so pretty - what a lovely makeover for that elegant birdhouse.
ReplyDeleteAlison xx