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 | | WooHoo it is Tickle a Teapotter time of the month and Gabby aka gabalot has given us a brilliant Halloween story!!
After creating these spooky pumpkin-head birds, I decided that they were a bit too grim, so I made a happier looking pumpkin-head bird....he didn't look spooky enough...I found myself having a goldilocks moment. I decide to use both panels and create an 'inside-out" card. This is not a recognised technique, but then again neither is Smack & Squirt and I use that technique all the time.
The birds were coloured with various orange distress inks and I used a copic marker to darken areas on the spooky ones. The background is the usual smack and squirt technique (smack distress ink onto alfoil, squirt on a lot of water and use a foam blending tool to scrub on the inky water). I used 3D Crystal Effects on the happy birdÂ’s boots - it poured out everywhere (possibly because I cut the blocked nozzle off with a carving knife), I quickly used my finger tips to add some of the excess glaze to the mushroom border and over the hanging branches.
The happy bird, the tall spooky bird and the short spooky bird all have the same type of legs. I used a strip of black cardstock approx 4" x 5", hand drew lines across the strip using a white sharpie paint pen, added dots to every second row, and then I cut each birds individual legs from this prepared piece of cardstock. The other two spooky birds had their legs drawn directly onto the background. The birds are attached with 3D foam tape.
I haven't decorated the front of the card yet, I am going to wait until I find out who my tickle recipient is and hopefully create something suitable.
Thank you for looking and have a happy, crafty week.
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Date: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 GMT
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Additional Info
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Keywords: MMTPT374 Bird Crazy
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Stamps: TH Bird Crazy, IndigoBlu (garden) Memory Box (hanging branches), Unity Stamps (boots/socks)
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Paper: smooth white cardstock (for panels), black cardstock base
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Paper Size: 4" x 8.25"
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Ink: TH Distress inks (heaps of oranges), blueprint & salty ocean, dusty concord, seedless preserves, mowed lawn, lemonade ? and walnut staind
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Accessories: aqua pen, foam blending tools, sharpie white paint pen, Joy Crafts mushroom border, 3D Crystal Effects, distress inks as above.
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Techniques: Smack & Squirt, Inside-out and Colouring with Distress Inks
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