Watch the Birdie with Our Vintage Affair Design Team New Challenge

Good evening to you all in the land of blog

Today sees the new challenge at 

Our Vintage Affair

Remember the first challenge of the month is always a layout challenge, but pop back on the 15th of the month for the card/altered item challenge

So the sketch for the August Layout is this stunning one, with the theme of Birds

Having been given some lovely papers by our Sponsor 

Nikki Sivils

I could not wait to get started, so here is what I created for my design team inspirational piece

The base papers are from Grimsby Crafts and then the top paper is one of the lovely papers from Niki, just perfect for the theme and my ideas.  I tore and distressed all around the edge of the papers Niki had provided using my little old baby wipes and Tim Holtz "Vintage Photo" distress ink.  I tore down a little at the top right.  I stole from one of my vases the tops of some twirl twigs and tied these together with twine to frame the image.  The image is from the first wedding I attended and the photo was taken from behind the paid photographer, so you can see all those guests with their cameras and the bride and groom performing those horrid photo stunts.  I hung a Marianne die cut bird cage from the twig after coating the die cut in Tim Holtz old paper crackle paint. The little birds were purchased oh so long ago from Hobby Craft, I painted these in the crackle paint too.  The floral sweep on the bird cage well let me tell you these were some dolls house hanging baskets, which I cut to pieces and used, a perfect size.  I added a feather to the torn piece at the top, some nestie leaves and a couple of Marianne fern scrolls. The little flowers are from Rui Tong.  I added some stick on butterflies but coloured them with copics to turn them pink to match the lettering. I love how it turned out.

Here are some close ups

 oh almost forgot added some tiny gold beads to the bottom of the bird cage.

The little bit of fluff the added feather

Oh almost forgot the little bird charm too, but here he is :)

Now don't forget to pop over and see what my wonderful team mates have created for your inspiration.

I would like to say hello to all of my new followers, hope you like what I work on and that you may pop and join in with us at Our Vintage Affair.

As always and very importantly thank you to you all for your wonderful comments, and thank you for taking the time to leave them, I appreciate all of them.

If you had not noticed my candy was won recently but another took it's place, so if you like what you see today and want to see more of what we get up to at Our Vintage Affair, pop here enter the candy and follow along with me.

I am entering this layout into the following challenges

Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes

Happileigh Scrappin - Anything Goes

Kaboodle Doodles - In the Garden

Make It Monday - Anything Goes

Make my Monday - Things with Wings

Come and Get It Challenges - Anything Goes

Kenny K - Metal Embellishment 

One Stop Craft - Vintage

Crafts 4 Eternity - anything but a card

Sew Many Challenges - Anything Goes

Hugs

Kate

xxx