Altered Bird House

Here are some photos of the first of the altered bird houses I did for the swap at the IAA. I used acrylic paint and paper, along with permanent ink. I stamped the swirls using acrylic paint and clear stamps. It was a little tricky because of the shape of the house, so I actually had to stamp with them without a block.
The roof tiles are paper that I punched out using a 1 inch punch and inked the edges of.
The butterflies are all made out of shrink-plastic. I used white shrink-plastic, stamped with Stazon black ink, and then after it was shrunk, I inked over the surface using chalk ink and embossed. The black comes right through and the color gives it a little added dimension.

Tomorrow I will try to get my photos of my other ones up.

Mini-Shrine

Here are some pictures of another one of my creations for Retro Cafe Art Gallery. It's a mini-shrine, which comes with all the parts cut out of some kind of thick board. Here is a picture with a dime for scale:

For the head, I actually used shrink-plastic in black and stamped onto it with white Stazon ink. When it was cool, I coated it in a clear embossing powder because a lot of the time the image will rub off (even when stamped with Stazon.) The stamp I used is by Lost Coast Designs.
Here is a shot of the back. I don't know why it came out so blurry! But you get the general idea.

Wednesday Stamper

The theme this week over on the Wednesday Stamper is the Gothic arch. As soon as I saw the challenge I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I used the template design provided on the site to make a necklace out of shrink plastic. Here it is all closed up. I used perfect pearls on the front before I heated it to give it that nice sparkle.

Then here is the inside with the doors open. The stamp is by Lost Coast Designs. I colored her in using chalks and perfect pearls and then shrunk. For some reason the scan came out a little blurry, in reality her colors really pop.

And just to give you an idea of scale, here it is in my hand.
Hope everyone had a good Monday. I will be back tomorrow with photos from my mini-book.