Pink Bird Studio

Sunday Postcard Art - Insects!

When I first read latest theme for Sunday Postcard Art I have to admit I thought "ew!", but of course there are all sorts of "pretty" insects - like butterflies!  Here's my butterfly queen...

Tim Holtz Challenge

This week, Tim Holtz had a giveaway of storage containers for the Distress Ink line - fun!  You could enter by commenting on his blog, or making something featuring distress inks - of course I had to do both!  This was the entry I made for the challenge which used five different Distress colours:  Mustard Seed, Dried Marigold, Fired Brick, Barn Door and Vintage Photo, along with images from ARTchix Studio.

Sunday Postcard Art - Show Business

This week's theme at Sunday Postcard Art was brought to us by Marie - There's No Business Like Show Business.

I used part of a quote from the movie Sunset Boulevard, along with one of the B&W images from ARTchix Studio, and this great "film strip" from Tim Holtz' Idea-ology collection.  I painted my whole bingo card with gesso, then quinacridone crimson acrylic.  Then I brushed gesso where I was going to place the film strip, and then brushed over it with a dry-ish brush using cerulian blue.  Stamped the letters on top of the film strip with Stayz-on ink.

New Tag Swap

I recently signed up for a tag swap hosted by the lovely and talented Lenna Andrews.  Lenna's swaps are always so much fun!  This time we're making tags and Lenna is going to make them into a book for us.  So the instructions say if you want one of your pieces in your book to include an extra tag for your own book.  The swap is for eight tags, and so I am sending ten - one for me and one for Lenna.  I will let Lenna choose which one to go in my book and in hers.

Each tag should be one predominant colour and contain at least one word.  I chose turquoise, which seems to be dominating my work lately.  Each manilla shipping tag was painted three times, front and back - once with gesso, once with teal and once with cerulian blue.  Most images from ARTchix Studio except the fun Ouija board from Retro Cafe Art, and a couple of the butterflies which are from Paper Whimsy.

 

And then I also decorated the back a bit, and added my address label.  I used a flourish stamp from Art Impresssions and some German scrap and transparencies from ARTchix - something simple but "finished" looking.

Helga's Weekly Challenge - Warm or Cool Colours

This week Helga challenged us to make a collage (any size) that focused on either "warm" or "cool" colours.  It just so happened that Helga and Jackie and I were getting together this weekend for an art play day, so I decided I would focus on my challenge pieces, and decided to make two collages, one warm and one cool.

We had so much fun - we laughed, we ate lots of goodies and made some wonderful art using some not-yet-released new products from ARTchix Studio!  Consider this your private "sneak peek"!  Shhhh! :)

First up was warm:

I started with one of these fun pre-cut shapes that will be coming out soon from ARTchix - kind of circus tent shape - very cool!  I painted it roughly with gesso, then some Lumiere paint, then added an old pattern piece, then more Lumiere and some watercolour crayon.  The hand holding the flowers, the lovely lady and the butterflies are all new images that will be available in the next product release - love them all!  Added the word (also from ARTchix) and a bit of Martha Stewart glitter glue and tada -- my "cool" collage was finished!

Next up came the "warm" pallette:

All very similar techniques and materials here with different colour pallette (and more new images!).  That "moon" behind the new purple butterfly is an image cut out from a button sheet that is also coming out - fun!

Thanks Helga for the fun play day and the fun colour challenges.  Visit Helga's blog to find out how to join in this fun challenge - there's even a prize!  I love that the prizes for these challenges are picked by Helga's pets, and not "judged".

Sunday Postcard Art - Mirror Mirror

This week the theme at Sunday Postcard Art is "Mirror Mirror".

Image from ARTchix Studio; flourish stamp from Art Impressions.

Helga's Weekly Challenge - Analogous Colour Twinchie

This week, Helga has challenged us to make another twinchie, this time using three analogous colours.  I chose yellow-green, green and turquoise. 

My fish's tail was too long for the front of the twinchie, so I wrapped it around the back...

Fish and word images from ARTchix Studio; bamboo stamp from Hero Arts.

Garden and Flowers ATC

As I've mentioned, even though the ARTchix Studio Yahoo Group is closed, the ARTchix lottery lives on in several incarnations.  Helga's Blog, the ARTchix Sister Site Yahoo Group, and the Flickr group.  The current theme on the Flickr Group is Garen and Flowers, which is what this ATC was made for.

All images, text and embellishments from ARTchix Studio.  Stamps from Hero Arts (bamboo) and Stampington & Company (Garden Gate).

Helga's Weekly Challenge - Complimentary Colours

This week Helga has challenged us to make a twinchie out of complimentary colours - I chose orange and blue.

Faux post and German scrap from ARTchix Studio. 

Last week I was thrilled to be randomly picked as the winner for the monochromatic twinchie challenge  - thanks to Helga's precious kitty MoMo!

Sunday Postcard Art - Umbrellas

The theme this week for Sunday Postcard Art is Umbrellas. 

Geisha Image from ARTchix Studio; stamps from Hero Arts.