New Challenge over at Rhedd's Creative Spirit *

Hi all - I cannot believe we are in August, time is running away from us. Nearly the C word again lol.

It is time for our August challenge over at Rhedd's Creative Spirit and for my DT piece I altered a cheap 99p birdhouse.  

I took the house apart to make my reconstruction easier.  I painted the whole thing first and then covered the main part and base using papers from Indigoblu Euphrema collection. The wiped the edges using black soot DI. 

I had recently munched my way through some pistachio nuts and saved the shells to use at a later date lol.  They came in useful as I used them to cover the roof lol.  I colored them using adirondack colour sprays and then inka gold them.  

I used a fence from Fernli designs also covered with inka.  I used a tree also by them.  For the other tree I used a piece of old artificial christmas tree and placed a lil birdie on it.  .  For the window a film strip wooden shape (FD again) came in handy for the frame and then clumsily tried to make something that resembled curtains using a scrap of gold satin. 

I stamped, cut out, coloured and shrinkled 2 of the crazy birds by Tim Holtlz and place one in the window and one on the fence (could not get a decent pic of them but hope you can see them)

I reassemble the bird house and voila all done and dusted.  Now for copious amounts of pics - I forgot to take a pic of the original piece but am showing you a similar house.

 

 

  

I do hope you enjoyed your visit and call in again sometime.  Why not head on over to RCS and join in with this months - you know you want to lol.

Hugz Elaine aka Ellapu xxx

This has been entered into the following challenges
 a gem of a challenge animals or birds 14a
artbymiram ag 6a
crafty cardmakers anything but a card 9a
crafting by design ag 1s
frilly and funkie things with wings 12a
crafts4eternity ag 6a
sisters of craft ag 1s
fussy and fancy things with wings 6a
pde linky party ag 1s
4crafty chicks ag 6a
crafting with an attitude ag 4s
twisted thursday ag 6 a
crafty gals corner ag 6a
simon says stamp ag 6a
2 creative chicks ag 1s
crafty hazelnuts patterned paper ag 1s
mixed media mojo ag 1s