' ' ' 'Crafty Endeavours: Hummingbird

Tuesday, 5 November 2024

Hummingbird

Hello crafters!
Today I have a first inspiration make for our Country View Challenge held in the Facebook  group. This month the theme is "Winging It" hosted by Fiona.

I chose this Lavinia Hummingbird for my Winged creature as it is a recent addition to my stash.


My background is alcohol inks on yupo paper.  I stamped the Hummingbird Small (LAV894) and the Open Dandelion  (LAV745) with Brilliance inks, letting them dry a full 24 Hours before colouring.

Since I didn't have small nib sizes of acrylic or Posca pens, I used water based markers to colour the bird. Those eventually dried, but, being a transparent medium, the background colours do show through.

I wanted the Dandelion in white and tried gel pen on the petals with mixed results: yes the gel ink dried and yes it added a bit of white but not enough to hide the background colours. [Add to shopping list: small nib acrylic pen...].

I then used my new favourite die (AALL & Create die set #32 Numberama) to cut both image and mat, before assembly on a white base card.

To enter the challenge, hop on to our friendly group here and upload your project to the challenge album. You could win all 5 of the newly released Layer It Up Washis by AALL & create from the Country View Craft shop.

Thanks for coming by,

 Craftyfield     I am entering the Allsorts, Simon Says Stamp Wednesday
                                                         Stamping Sensations and We Love Stamping challenges 

5 comments:

  1. Even if the colour did not turn out as you hoped Christine it's still very effective against the inky background, many thanks for sharing with us at Allsorts, Stamping Sensations and We Love Stamping challenges.

    B x

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  2. Your background is fabulous!
    As are the images!
    Thank you for joining us at Allsorts!

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  3. Love the beautiful stamps and inky background.
    Carol x

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  4. ooops meant to add thank you for joining us at Stamping Sensations.
    carol DT x

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  5. A beautiful card, love the background and the hummingbird's colours look gorgeous.
    Thanks for sharing at Stamping Sensations. Avril x

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