Limited supply challenge - back to my roots
I spend most of the morning uploading the Scrapbooking purse I posted earlier here, on SCS and the Creative Imaginations gallery. I knew I wanted to do today’s challenge. It was a relativ easy limited supply challenge. We could use anything we wanted, but we only had 45 minutes. I was using every single second of that, but I think I stayed in the limit.
By the way….Jen70, our Limited Supply challenge hostess has her birthday today! What’s up with all of us being born in April? Those July nights….LOL I have Jennifer’s address if you would like to send her a birthday card!!!
When I first started stamping, I hardly ever ventured out of the Earth Element group. That is definitely my comfort zone. Bold and Brights….very much not! LOL I did change and learned to love the Bold and Brights…at least some of them…but Earth Elements are my roots!
I started with watercoloring paper from Stampin’ Up! and these cute birds from Crafty Secrets. (Yes, I got another sweet box in the mail and yes, my husband doesn’t know about it. Yes, I am broke….but boy oh boy….is it sweet to have new stuff! If you dare to look at my new loot, click on more.) You can purchase Crafty Secrets merchandise at Sweet Miss Daisy’s store Sassy and Sweet Crafts. She is out of the bird stamps right now but already ordered more and should have them back in next week.
I stamped the birds in black Palette and sprayed the watercoloring paper with my water mist bottle. Then I used aqua painter and lots of different Stampin’ Up! classic inks (So Saffron, More Mustard, Really Rust, Close to Cocoa, Sage Shadow, Always Artichoke and Bashful Blue) to color the birdies in. Usually I don’t like my watercoloring at all. But I do like it this time. When I was done coloring, I turned the paper around and scored a 1/4″ border around the image. I then used the paper piercing mat, a ruler and a stylus to make that scoring deeper and let the image appear dry embossed.
I used the cutter tool kit from Stampin’ Up! to distress the edges of the watercoloring paper and it’s chocolate chip mat. Then I ran a 4″ x 5 1/4″ piece of Really Rust through the cuttlebug machine.
I used a cuttlebug die to make the little buckle and stamped the saying on it with palette ink. Next I watercolored it with the same colors I used on the birds.
The patterned paper is from the Wanted collection of Cosmo Cricket. I distressed the top border and taped it onto the rust background. I then taped the birds on that and ran a ribbon with the ribbon buckle underneath the bird image. I held the ribbon in place with brads.
Last I layered the whole thing on chocolate chip cardstock.
