Feathers Appear...

Hi all, I'm back for another post! I'm on a day off today, so I thought I'd make the most of my new found crafty mojo!

I've been playing with my new Brushos from That's Crafty, and my new Visible Image stamps. I have made a card for a friend, a fellow Kate Bush fan - the card is inspired by the interval curtain at Kate's shows last year, which featured a large black feather to the top right hand corner. The second part of the shows were based on her Aerial album, which heavily features birds - at the end of the performance, Kate transforms into a bird! Really hoping the DVD will be released soon, as I would love to watch it all again. Here is a pic of the curtain that inspired my card.

For the background I used Brilliant Red Brusho pigment paint, and sprinkled a little bit of Dark Brown onto it, then spritzed with some water. The wonderful thing about this technique is that you never know how it will turn out, and that's half the fun. The brown pigment spread like a little flock of birds, perfect!

 

After drying, I stamped the feather image and the small flock of birds from Free Your Imagination set in Versamark, and black embossed and added the sentiment from the Angels are Near set.

 

I applied some Mod Podge around the edge of the card, and added these little black sprinkles by Cosmic Shimmer in Ebony Ice - they get everywhere!! I spritzed the whole thing with Mister Huey Pinstripe Grey and Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in Dazzling Diamonds. Finally I mounted onto a card base which had been distressed with Black Soot DI.

I've had a lot of fun getting messy making this, it's a very large card measuring 8 x 8 inches!

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

Crafty Cardmakers & More - Make your own background
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Ruby's Rainbow - Anything Goes
Craft Stamper - Use a Stamp
That's Crafty - Clean and Simple

Thanks for stopping by,

Pauline