2009-12-23 one stroke gourd bird house

I’ve fooled around today with trying to mount a one-stroke painted gourd birdhouse that I practiced painting this past weekend. I used the sketch from SplitCoastStampers, their sketch SC260.

I only used two stamps (pictured), from Hero Arts and the words You’re the best by Studio G. This was a $1 stamp from Michael’s Craft store. I really like some of the new images that they have been putting out in the bin.

I dunno if you can see the glimmer, but I dusted a few layers with bronze perfect pearls. It has a nice shimmer in real life.

I like the tiny flowers. In fact I added them as an afterthought because the tree looked kind of ugly with out them.

A few of the supplies that I used were…
recycled corrugated card board (torn horizontal strip covered with ribbon); 2 sizes of Cuttlebug circle die’s; SU’s scallop circle, Nestabilities rectangle, ribbon, prima flower, crystal, bronze perfect pearls, clear embossing powder, distress inks in various colors, versa mark ink and a butt load of 3-d mounting tape lol!

I have a few more practice one stroke painted pieces that I worked on. I’ll have to see if I can add them to a card in the near future.