This is a fun mobile I just created for a swap themed 'birds'. Where would birds be except in the air? The mobile parts are willow twigs with gold embossing powder, and the 'strings' are either tiger tail beading wire or very fine brass wire from a posh Rioja bottle! The birds are all cut from handmade background papers from my 'collection' aka hoard. I made a bird template, plus a reverse template, and cut 20 birds, each from a different paper, then glued them together. I stamped them all with a Stampcamp 'marble veining' stamp and gold embossed them, to bring some cohesion to such a wide variety of papers. I finally added the 'eyes' - small circles left over on a sheet of peel offs.
Here are some close up pictuires of all the little birdies...
I hope Wendy likes it. All I have to do it work out how on earth to package it for posting to her!
Such gorgeous colors and textures on your birdies.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful project.
Very cool Adrienne. I like the extra touch of the marbling. It must be a birdie time of year. I just finished some bird inchies for a swap!
ReplyDeleteFabulous! Love what you did with the birds, gorgeous papers.
ReplyDeleteGreat Idea Adrienne. Love the colours you chose. Good Luck with figuring out how to mail it!!
ReplyDeleteNow that's what I call inspirational - fab colours Adrienne!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful Birdies
ReplyDeleteBeautiful Adrienne, love it!!
ReplyDeleteI love this, If you want to make another I would love it. hint hint.. no really i love the birds and the webbing you used on them. You definitely were inspired!
ReplyDeleteOh, the birds are delightful!
ReplyDeleteAnd I love how they fly :-)
This is beautiful - if Wendy doesn't like it, you can always send along to me. I love the idea of using the Tiger Tail - I'll have to try that.
ReplyDeleteLooks wonderful to me, look forward to seeing it
ReplyDeleteLooks wonderful to me, look forward to seeing it
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