Things with wings hop

Welcome to the STAMPlorations Spring blog hop, this year we are celebrating with winged things and so I chose one of the image in the For the birds set as my focal point.

My background has first been made in 3 steps:

First I stencilled Distress inks through the Beyond the Trees slimline stencil.

Then I added acrylic gel medium with the stencil still in place, thereby waterproofing the Distress inks.

All I had to do then is to add a wash of watercolour to colours the trees trunks and branches. When dry I removed the colour from the gel medium with a slightly wet sponge. Now I had a fairly realistic wood!

For my focal image, I stamped the bird with black ink and die-cut it with the matching die  before applying Distress inks with Distress foam. I added The Life is good sentiment die-cut from coloured cardstock.

You can win prizes by commenting on the designers' blogs and the STAMPlorations blog but also by playing with us and linking a project on the Things with wings theme until the 7th of May. 

So start hopping! 

Thanks for coming by,
I am entering the Paperbabe, SSS Monday challenges.