Art Journal Journey - A Leggy Bird

 No it isn't a top model with wings, it's a bird with wings - and long legs.  This is an image by  Stampotique from way way back.  I never bought the stamp myself as I had a friend who was happy to stamp some images for me to use.  I think Stampotique is now a brand sold under the name of Katzelkraft.

To begin with I used an existing background which I had made by using metallic sprays.  I just wish you could see the sheen and sparkle on this page.  Can you just about see the tiny border at the base of the page - it is a piece of card I found on my desk, no idea where it came from but I liked it.  Maybe orange and pink are jarring but somehow it works.

I decided to add a large flower to work with the long legs of the bird which I coloured with Inktense Pencils.  A long stem would not have worked so a large head on the flower to my mind works far better and the words 'Beautiful Summer Days are Fun' are certainly so true.  To finish off the page I added a diecut feather which was one of many, I was given years ago.  I wonder if it was one of her tail feathers?

Well, it is almost the end of the month and there are still some pages to show you at Art Journal Journey with my theme whilst being guest host, "It Must Have Wings".  I wonder if you have something you could show us.  I'd love to see it.

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Well, I haven't done much crafting but I have done a change of direction thanks to Angela (Felix) and today, on my desk is a little mushroom.  I've wanted to do some needle-felting and make a figure for such a long time but gave up as I never followed the instructions properly and ended up with a MESS!

Then I saw a Fly Agaric mushroom that Angela had made and I loved it.  Bless her, she offered to show me how to make one at the Crop this year.  Unfortunately the Crop didn't happen and so my mushroom session didn't  either.  Then I saw an online workshop and guess what they were making - Fly Agaric's.  Turned out it was the same workshop Angela had done and I joined and on Monday we made this little mushroom, or shroom as I like to call them.

Today we are going to make a picture of the same shroom so I will show you that next week and maybe, just maybe, a more perfect little Fly Agaric - I want to make a tiny one.  Can you see the kind of line just below the cap?  This is called the volva (I think) and is the veil that the mushroom has over it as it is growing and as it grows the veil leaves behind the white spots.  Did I get that right Angela?  (I never knew that before and I have never ever seen one in real life.)

Last week I showed you what I had made at a workshop in Cumbria, here are the first couple of pages finished off and now in the book followed by another two pages.

That's me for this week, now to my workshop - well, get ready for it and have a nice hot shower first.  Then later today I'll be over to see Sarah's Craft Shed and see what everyone has been up to.