Birds Of A feather Bird House

I have used one of the wooden Bird Houses for this. All of the images used are from the Artistic Outpost Plate, Birds Of A Feather. apart from the music for the roof, which is an old acrylic stamp I have had for ages and I have not idea who makes it.

I first gave the house a coat of Claudine Hellmuth's Sky Blue Paint. I then thinned some of the paint on my craft mat and gave a bit of white tissue a quick coat of it. I dried  it with my heat gun and then cut pieces to fit all the sides and roof of the house ( I do these houses a lot so I have a little set of templates that I keep for this).

I stamped my images directly onto the tissue masking as needed.
I then glued them to the house using multi medium, also giving it a top coat to protect it.
I gave it a quick rub over with Picket Fence distress stain and ran a Black Dabber around all the edges.

Dont forget this months challenge theme is music themed pieces. To see all the details and to upload your creations the post is on the Blog HERE.

Alice In Wonderland Altered Bottle

The glass bottle has had a layer of multi medium applied to it before a coat of clear viva crackle was added to it, when this was dry I alcohol  inked over it and its given it a lovely aged look.
I did have real problems getting the wire hearts to attatch to it. In the end I had to resort to winding them around the handle, I am not really happy with how this looks and it maybe one of those things I rip apart again to have another go at. It also needs something else but at the moment I cannot see what it is. But as I have been faffing with it on and off for a few days between other projects, and I wanted to enter it into the simon Says stamps and show challenge, and it ends this evening, so this is it for now, warts and all.
The little wire hearts were inspired by something I saw on my friend Julie's blog.

Fly

I wanted to play with some new Oil Pastels I got recently. I got them to colour in images with as I fancied a change from the pencils I usually use. I have seen Helen using these to great effect, and I just had to try them. I got mine from Paper Artsy. I only used them on the images, but I am really pleased with them. The background is done with my ever faithful Distress inks.
The images and background were built up with masking.
The Icarus image is by lost coast I just love him. I have used him so much since I got him, but I only today realised I have never blogged him before. His available from Happy Daze.
I did this with the Gothic Arches Challenge of Fly the Nest in mind, Icarus is trying desperately to escape his small town with his hand made flying contraption, I just hope he makes it.

Paris Exposition Vanity Box For Happy Daze

This Box is for the happy Daze Design Team Blog
I have used the Artistic Outpost stamps Paris Exposition and French Flight to alter this Box. The Box is one of the Vanity Boxes available from the shop.

The background has been created by using a crackle paint background, I found the blue was too bright when this was done, so I applied a coat of Picket Fence distress stain which gave it a lovely aged look.

Viva Inka Gold in Hematite was applied through a crafters Workshop Stencil.

All the stamping was done using black archival ink.

Acrylic fragments and arrows were added to the lid.

The challenge this month is "March To Your Own Tune" use anything musical. For full details of the challenge have a look HERE

Charmed I'm Sure: Craft Stamper

Here is a little sneek peek of my Craft Stamper Article for this month. Its using Octopode Images which are available from the Octopode Factory. All the other items and the magazine are available to buy at your newsagents or from Happy Daze.