Spread Your Wings with Colour!

Hello and welcome to Magpieheaven! Over at PaperArtsy the current theme is paint - and what a fantastic theme it is! We've had some amazing inspiration from Leandra's video, Lynne Moncrieff and the Sue Carrington and the new PA colours are so unbelievably beautiful: I just had to play. And when I started playing, well, I just couldn't stop - the hours flew by! And talking about flying...well, more of that in a moment! I played with some stencil bumping with really bright colours and Lin Brown's gorgeous leaf stencil. I used Banana, Tangerine Twist, Bourgainvillea and Chalk on a piece of Smoothy card. I then painted two tags, one with Blue Oyster and the other with Caribbean Sea from Lin's Limited Collection, which I really love at the moment.

The colours were so bright and playful, they put me in the mood to let my imagination take flight. What would be the effect of taking Lin's Wicked Chickens and combining them with some Lynne Perrella faces? I stamped different funky birds onto my stenciled card and Lynne Perrella images onto more card painted with Nougat and Blush Frescos, adding detail colour with Inktense pencils. For extra dimension on my birds I used Pearl pen. My first tag has a dusky mood. I used Wisteria, Beach Hut and Inky Pool plus a Stencil Girl bird stencil. The topper was stamped onto Caribbean Sea with black Archival ink and then clear embossed to make it really glossy. A little Sara Nauman text finished it off, so a complete Designer Collage!

I think I may even have used some of the new Blueberry there too! She seems to me to hop out of the dusk, the liminal time between day and night when magic is possible!

Creating this Bird Lady reminded me of the fun I used to have dressing paper dolls as a little girl. My Grandmother would help to cut out figures and stick them to card, and we would make our own cut-out designs with tabs for them. I was quite convinced then that I wanted to be a fashion designer; but I became an English teacher, ah well!

Double the wing power, for this Tudor birdie. I wonder if she's a creature from a coat of arms come magically to life in an enchanted wood? For the background on this tag, I used the same stencil with Caribbean Sea, Blue Oyster and Beach Hut. I stamped the bird twice onto my stencilled card and fixed on two pairs of wings with a little pink brad.

 I added a  crackle heart made by mixing some turquoise Primary element with some Prima crackle paste and covering a PaperArtsy heart die cut from heavy Smoothy. I edged my tag with the gothic text from a PaperArtsy mini and some Sapphire Treasure Gold

Here is a close up of the little pink brad, which reminds me even more of those paper dolls from my childhood and how much I enjoyed weaving stories around them. When my own daughter was pre-school we would spend many an afternoon drawing, cutting and pasting princesses, unicorns and cats - and, of course even the cats and the unicorns had to have extensive wardrobes of silks, lace and velvet - well, sweet wrappers, sequins and fabric scraps to be precise. It was no surprise when she decided on a career in fashion! 

I've really let my imagination take flight today, playing with paints and images. Thank You so much for stopping by and looking at these fantasy creations. I do hope you'll break open some bright paints too and let your imagination carry you away to blue skies and enchanted lands.