Free as a Bird

The theme for the second 'Crafty Individuals' monthly challenge has been chosen by Isabelle Norris http://www.isabelle-norris.com/ and is entitled 'FREE AS A BIRD'. Here's my design team submission..........

The base of the canvas is painted with acrylics, overstamped using one of the new plates 'bird song, CI-309 and large swirl CI-182 and aged with distress inks. I added an image of a birds nest , eggs and a Crafty Individuals 'must have' chippy tree......yummy.....which I had previously painted and overstamped with CI-116 crackle.

I stamped the three beautiful tree and bird images, CI-287 once on tissue and once onto card and glued the tissue images onto the background. I then coloured the other images and made some rough frames from balsa wood to add dimension.

I had a couple of Crafty Individuals tiny canvass' left so crackled them up , aged them and stuck birds eggs onto them, bringing them together by adding the words. I painted a silver bird in flight charm to make it blend in better and dangled it from some fine thread from one of the canvas'.

I finished it off by adding a beautiful sentiment from plate CI-287 'Trees and birds' in the bottom left hand corner, overlapping the tree trunk.

I have thoroughly enjoyed Isabelle's challenge, do take a look at her lovely blog and also take a peek at Crafty Individuals blog for further inspiration. http://craftyindividualsblog.blogspot.com/ Maybe you could have a go yourselves, there are prizes up for grabs!!!!

Sue x