Oh, my Chickens!

We are having a Bird Brains challenge over on the Art Impressions blog... so we would like to see your projects with chickens on them!  I'm sharing a card with a little country flavour, using Birdie & Eggnus (sku#U1836) and the October Afternoon Sasparilla papers:

Here's a close up of the gals:

There are some wonderful prizes up for grabs - so we hope you'll join us on the Ai Blog!

Patterned papers are Sasparilla, October Afternoon; Stamp set is Birdie & Eggnus (sku#U1836), Art Impressions; Ink is Tuxedo Black, Memento; Copic Markers; Twine, American Crafts; Burlap ribbon, Wooden button & Pacifica cardstock all Close To My Heart.

 

Birdie & Eggnus

It's my day to post on the Art Impressions blog.

I had SO much fun making today's card!  Next to card making, knitting is my big hobby - so when I find a knitting themed stamp - I'm a happy girl :o)  Today's card features Birdie & Eggnus (sku#U1836),  and since "Twine Time" is our current Ai challenge theme, I decided to knit with a little Baker's Twine, and add it to my card:

I started by casting on four stitches onto 2.75mm knitting needles, and I knit about 5 rows.  Then I transfered the stitches onto these little toothpicks that I found at a dollar store - the ends of them are shaped which make them look a lot like tiny knitting needles.

I love that Ai stamps come packaged with a full colour illustration (which I pretty much copied exactly!)  These just happen to be the first chickens that I've ever coloured, and it was so helpful to have a picture to go by.  Here are Birdie & Eggnus before I added the knitting:

A few of the details:

And the Copics that I used:

Happy stamping everyone :o)