Hello.
Your feet must be aching from all that dancing around the May pole so why not rest awhile and cast your eyes over my latest page:
We have a blackbird [or maybe more than one ... they do all look rather similar] who sits on the TV arial of the house beyond the bottom of our garden. He perches there singing his heart out, regaling us with his entire repertoire:
And, as you may already know, I have a particular soft spot for the blackbird:
When I spotted the real-life Mr.Blackbird on his perch last week I was struck by how much he resembled his indoor counterpart ... and so I reached for the camera:
Still, this meant I could experiment with the printed photo and so I sanded it and sprayed it with Shimmerz spritz and water.
[Typically the ink and water didn't have muhc effect when I wanted it too ... yet if I'd sprayed it by accident .. what's the betting it would have made the printed colours bleed or blobbed pigment where I didn't want it?].
I also spritzed the Shimmerz inks through a die-cut paper to create the soft flourishes at the bottom:
So much so that I was very restrained in my use of patterned papers over the top of it ... and that doesn't happen every day!
Here's to spring sunshine, open doors and beautiful yellow-beaked soloists.
Thanks for dropping by.
Julie x
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Page design inspired by Sketch 235 at the Pencil Lines sketch challenge blog.
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A fabulous page....and what great photographs!
ReplyDeleteI love the layers and the detail on this.
ReplyDeleteFantastic and, as you say, relatively plain for your style Julie but it works beautifully !! Love it !
ReplyDeleteThis is beautiful! Huge impact!
ReplyDeleteLucy x
Lovely, lovely, lovely. I too adore blackbirds. We have one (2, 3, more?) who comes each morning to raid the seed feeders. Delightful.
ReplyDeleteoh it's gorgeous ... how on earth did you get to be so talented.
ReplyDeleteOhh liking the effect on the photo. V.cool!
ReplyDeleteThis is another gorgeous one, I really like your style. I find it very fresh and inspiring. Always something interesting going on on your pages...lol!
ReplyDeleteGreat LO, love the vivid blue and your sanding and spritzing look fab!
ReplyDeleteI love this time of the year with the birdies singing. We don't get so many around here - the steel fabricator yard at the bottom of MY garden kinda scares them away I suppose but love hearing them when I do.
ReplyDeleteSTILL have blackbird envy :P
The gorgeous blue of your photo matches the blue of your labels so perfectly.
ReplyDeleteI love listening to the birds in the garden too and I fell in love with your Mr Blackbird the first time I saw him. I think if he was mine I wouldn't be able to stop looking at him.
This is a lovely layout with so many cute details! Thanks for playing along with us at Pencil Lines!
ReplyDeleteI love all the layers on this and the stitching and outlining of photo work really well.
ReplyDeleteThat blue colour is so gorgeous, the dymo tape was a good find to match it! And I love the sanding effect on the photo. x
ReplyDeleteWonderful page - love the blue in it.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful page. Reminds me I should scrap my Blackbird tale :)
ReplyDeleteGreat job with the spritzing! and how lovely to capture him singing his heart out. Like the softer look to this - and not come across the manila cardstock.
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