Parakeets

Morning all!

I hope you have a fab weekend planned, I am off for a meal with the family later, to celebrate my birthday later in the week, then tomorrow is the Bawburgh Claritystampers East workshop - looking forward to that, as always.  Also, CLARITY HAVE A SALE THIS WEEKEND!!, so a good time to do a bit of shopping!!

This card is one of my samples from the last Claritystamp TV show, The Parakeets is a big stamp, so it comes with one of the mega mounts, I also used one of the stamps from the tree rows set

The background is done by spritzing left over ink on my mat and picking it up with card - this is a really good way of using up your ink, rather then just cleaning it up, plus, you have a stock of backgrounds for when you need them!!

I stamped the trees and coloured them in

The parakeets are on a stamped onseparate piece of card  I coloured in with Distress markers, using the same colours for the birds and trees.  (I googled parakeets to see what colour they were and pretty much anything goes!!)

With a fine black pen, I added some dots and lines in the spaces behind the birds and added lots of little circles for the branches

Once everything was dry, I glazed the birds by 'colouring' them with a versamark pen and adding clear embossing powder.  Mat on to black card, and add to the background, which I also mounted on black
Have a great weekend, whatever you are up to
Janet xxx