Kitty-Bea bunting

 Good Morning everyone

This week my 2nd youngest niece is 7.  At the moment she is really into garden birds so instead of a card I made some bunting with her name on and lots of lovely birds. 

Trying to get a decent photo of this not been so easy.  This is it hung up - ive left the ribbon long on one end so that they can adjust it if need be for hanging up, then they can trim the excess.

As Kitty-Bea has an unique name its always nice to make something with her name on it.  She also has an abstract art style so the funky colours of these digi birds are ideal for her. 

They are Mixed Media Birds clipart from etsy shop Double Helix digitals   I printed onto digital printer paper, cut them out and sealed with mod podge.  I flipped some of them before printing and printed at different sizes so that i could have them looking at each other like a pair etc...

I made a box using feather printed kraft card and used a tag I had left over from the bunting

I used a couple of beads on the ends of the bunting for some interest. I die cut the cross stitch effect fishtail banner dies from 350gsm kraft card.  I found a very old paper pad in my stash which has some of Kitty-Beas fav colours and went well with the birds. These i die cut into a smaller banner and adhered to the kraft card.  Circles die cut from the off cuts and alphas die cut from white and kraft card, matted together with a drop shadow and covered in glossy accents to give an enamelled finish. 

As well as the panels with the alpha's on I added a blank panel each end so i could add a bigger bird.  I added bronze effect eyelets and used organza ribbon to join it all together. 

Ive used different birds on each panel.  Although they aren't real to life colours you can easily tell by the shape and stance of each bird which type they are based on.  Kitty-Bea is lucky that where they live they get alot of different garden birds.

I added a small touch of stickles glitter glue to each bird just to add a little sparkle as what little girl doesn't love sparkle

Items Used:

Double Helix Digitals - Mixed Media birds clip art

MFT Xstitch fishtail banner die set

Stitched circle dies

Memory box Alpha dies

Very old paper pad from create&craft

Craft UKltd kraft card

Ranger glossy accents

Stickles 'diamond'

Thank you for stopping by once again and all your previous comments, I really do appreciate them all.  I hope you have a good week.  Emmax

Id love to enter the following:

https://lovethoseprettypapers.blogspot.com/2025/02/love-those-pretty-papers-february-2025.html

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https://theoutlawzchallenges-saturday.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-outlawz-anything-goes-in-card-free_02003369360.html   

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https://cutitupchallenges.blogspot.com/2025/02/cut-it-up-challenge-324-tie-it-up-use.html - have used ribbon

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https://craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.com/2025/02/crafty-catz-challenge-688.html

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https://movingalongwiththetimes.blogspot.com/2025/02/challenge-175-feb-2025-things-with-wings.html

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https://neglectedstuff.blogspot.com/2025/02/kick-off-challenge-225.html - all papers are from a pad that is 10+ years old

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https://do-allkreatives.blogspot.com/2025/02/98-mit-flugel.html - with wings

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Penguin fun

Good Morning everyone.

I hadn't planned another post before Christmas but ive had a little fun today.  In the countryview crafts advent event i bought (among lots of others!) these brilliant penguin stamps by aall&create and i thought they were the ideal size for some of the little snippets of alcohol inked acetate i had left over from cards so as Id cleared my desk I had a little play and made myself some penguin bunting.

Previously id coloured acetate with alcohol inks - this is ideal for using packaging acetate as it hides any little marks.  On the opposite side to the alcohol ink i stamped the penguins with stazon ink - i need to get a refil as some didn't stamp perfectly but a black sharpie marker came to the rescue.  Then I cut them out, leaving a little tab of acetate above their heads which i punched a hole in - i also removed any alcohol ink above the heads with blending solution and cotton wool so that only the penguins were coloured.  If i wasn't using up scraps of pre coloured acetate you could stamp the penguins first and then add alcohol ink to colour them.

I added a jump ring through the punched hole and tied them onto clear jewellery thread. As the acetate is see through it meant it was easy to flip some penguins  to face the opposite way.

Sadly my photos don't show up the true colours as its too long to fit in my light box and its so dark and gloomy today trying to take the photos.  

Just a close up on a few of them.  

Items Used:

Aall&create stamps #603 'frosty' & #604 'penguin'

Tim Holtz alcohol inks

Acetate

Jump Rings

Clear jewellery thread

Id love to enter the following:

https://countryviewchallenges.blogspot.com/2021/12/december-2021-christmas-anything-goes.html

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https://sirstampalotchallenge.blogspot.com/2021/12/december-choose-theme-and-stamp-it.html

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http://sweetstampinchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2021/12/anything-christmas.html

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http://pixiescraftyworkshop.blogspot.com/2021/12/pixies-snippets-playground-challenge_0458224053.html  - all my penguins are on snippets of acetate

I had hoped to enter this challenge but after hours of trying the link tool just keeps saying nope😕

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Ive also added photos of the present ive made for my mum for Christmas.  In my stash busting mission this year i wondered what to do with these glass pebbles and this is the outcome

I started with a 20cm foam football and took a slice off the bottom so it can sit flat in the garden.  I then glued on randomly in stages lots of glass pebbles.  Then used bathroom grout - something i won't be doing again, this was definitely a labour of love doing a bit at a time.

A smaller version on a garden stake, i used just blue and clear glass pebbles on this one, a 7cm foam ball that id pushed a metal garden stake into.  I actually made this one first and base painted the bright yellow ball black but the colours didn't stand out so much so the bigger version i base painted white, this also helps seal the ball.

 Just showing both together

Thank you for stopping by. 

I hope you all enjoy the festive period and stay safe. Big hugs Emmaxxx