“Happier Than A Bird With A French Fry”

Y’all, today’s theme for the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge was “Anything Goes” and highlighting Hero Arts brand stamps. Ashamed to say it, but I don’t own any Hero Arts stamps. I guess that goes back to being a Tim Holtz addict. A majority of my stamps are for mixed media projects, and mainly of the Tim Holtz variety. Seeing that the theme was “anything goes”, I went with Bird Crazy from Stampers Anonymous. My paper today was Dylusions mixed media cardstock, and just a generic card base I picked up at Joanns a while back. My background inks were, or course, Distress Oxides. The Colors I chose for today were Speckled Egg and Cracked Pistachio. At first, I was aiming for a sky and grass background, but I’m not sure I accomplished that, but I love it just the same. I smudged a small amount of the ink onto my nonstick side of my Tim Holtz Glass Media mat and spritzed it with some water from my Distress Sprayer bottle. The water gives the ink those nice big water droplets that I like to soak up with my paper. After I applied the Speckled Egg, I made sure that my paper was good and dry by using my Ranger Heat It tool. I then used the same technique with the Cracked Pistachio. Once I was happy with the coverage, I used my Distress Oxide Vintage Photo to distress the edges of my project.

The next thing I did was take my regular Distress Ink in Speckled Egg and stamped some text into the background. I didn’t have to stamp my birds today because I already had a bit of a stock pile from my Vagabond weekend a few weeks ago (see earlier post). I did however have to stamp my sentiment. I just love this saying! ” Today I will be happier than a bird with a french fry.” I’d say that brings up an image of a pretty happy bird. Haha. To stamp my image, I just used Neenah white cardstock and my Distress Archival Black Soot. I did use my Stamping Platform just in case I needed to stamp the image again to get a good image.

In sticking with the Tim Holtz theme, I decided to use my Distress Crayons to color my birds. I’m still a little new at this water coloring thing, but I think they turned out okay.

Then, last but not least everything was glued down with my Distress Collage Medium. I did however pop dot the birds to give the card a little dimension.

I said it before, I haven’t been much of a card maker in the past, but the thing I think I love most about cards is they are just a mini art project. When I’m done, I feel like something has definitely been accomplished. Getting on FB and watching the live demos on Saturday, and getting more active on Instagram has definitely inspired me to get back in the craft room and try. If it hadn’t been for the demos, and the encouraging to get on Instagram, I wouldn’t have found the Simon Says Stamp challenges. I am really enjoying them. If you haven’t yet, you should check them out. Maybe you will be inspired to get in there and create again, instead of just being a curator of nice craft supplies. Haha.

Until next time,

Jennifer

Here is a list of the supplies used in today’s video:

Dylusions Mixed Media Cardstock

Products used :

Distress Oxide Ink Speckled Egg

Distress Oxide Ink Cracked Pistachio

Distress Oxide Ink Vintage Photo

Distress Collage Medium

Distress Archival Ink Black Soot

Distress Ink Speckled Egg

Distress Crayon Tumbled Glass