SCD challenge-the letter B

I'm joining in with SCD challenge this week where the letter is 'B'... with my tiny bird on the perch of his tiny birdhouse... 'n' I say tiny cos it's only about 3" tall.  I got it from The Artistic Stamper... it had a hanging loop but I decided to cut it off as I will stand it in my kitchen.

I totally surprised myself by cutting out this wee humming bird TWICE.... my sausage fingers usually make this a mean feat believe me...but I persevered and I think he looks happy on his new perch.

All stamps are by Crafty Individuals... except the letter 'B' which I think is Anna Griffin.

I used Distress and spray inks to colour the images and followed the nature theme round to the back of my birdhouse with trees :D

Now then thanks for looking at my arty piece today and as I promised I have got something a little special to share today so see the post below :D

hugs

Chris xx

6"x4"artcard- House of Birds

I just LOVE this new bird stamp from Crafty Individuals and the beautiful shrine effect stamp that I have used in part for the roof and base of my house of birds artcard.


The background is handpainted onto canvas effect paper which I've grunged slightly with ink after painting. I used pencils to colour the background of the bird stamp because I like the random effect they give.
Thanks for looking
Chris xx

A little birdie told me...

that I would be very happy if I made a birdie card...lol I love all of the birdie paper and stamps etc that are out now amongst all of the other new designs which my pennies don't always stretch to. I keep slapping myself on the wrist for not using up the HUGE amount of stash that I've had for ages BUT there's nothing quite like the feel of a brand new piece of paper or the sound of something new the postie is dropping on the mat!! I loved these Papermania papers as soon as I set eyes on them aren't these birdies cute :)
A nice summery card which makes me feel good today after braving 2hrs of gale force winds at a bootsale this morning. Must be mad but it was quite good fun trying to play catch with some of my items...to save them from diving off the table and hitting someone around the chops...lol

I'd have been worth a small fortune if I had, had a penny for everytime the guy next to me shouted "Gloves a pound" and "scarves for two quid"... got on my nerves after a while but hey he did a roaring trade cos everyone was so cold, so he definately wouldn't have cared that I felt like wrapping one of the scarves round his own neck and pulling on it tightly.... eeeeeeeeh how wicked am I rofl... I'm a nice girl really honest!!

Anyway the highlight of the morning was coming home and making myself a huge sausage, onion and tomato sauce sarnie... oooooooh it was totally yummy, almost succumbed to the hot dog van while I was out but just knew my own would taste so much nicer in a stottie bun... especially as I had to wait for it, would have taken a pic to show you but my tummy wouldn't allow me to wait that long. I will be complaining when my thighs start wobbling more than they already do BUT right at this moment I'm thinking it was worth it....lol

Will be back a little later with my sewing for Linda and Rosie's challenge cos I didn't quite manage to finish it yet... so don't forget to pop back for a look... I'm quite pleased with how it is coming along even though I had a happy accident with it.... but that's another story:0

Catch you later

hugs

Chris xx

Lovely little Lilly....She's so Tweet...

It seems like a million years ago since I did any Digital stuff but I couldn't resist playing with this gorgeous photo of June's adorable little Grandaughter Lilly.... isn't she just adorable, just love that amazing smile and I believe she's a happy fairy in disguise :)

So I decided to wave my magic wand over her and turn her into a flower fairy who would bring sunshine to anyone's garden...what do you think... isn't she just the sweetest little thing :)

I used a couple of my Photoshop brushes for the flowers and toadstool and borrowed the wings from a photograph I took at Butterfly world a while ago and I think little Lilly wears them all beautifully :)

We couldn't have a photograph without a layout though and as some of the Ct team girls have been busy designing parts of a fab collab kit and June has some fab new freebie stuff too... well what better way to let you see what's up for grabs. Pop over and grab all the free additions to the collab kit from Cen's Loft and you can also get June's part of a massive blog train set of digi freebies and links to many more.

Credits :-

Background paper Fall splendour kit from Cens Loft

Floral bracket from Cens Loft collab kit by Bina

Birds from Cens Loft collab kit by Linda

Hope you are having a fun day... see you soon

hugs

Chris xx