Whimsical Bird Tags

Welcome to the month of April.  Time for a new challenge at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity:  Spring Has Sprung.  So use a spring theme to make your projects and be sure to include some rubber-stamping somewhere on you project.

I made three tags for this challenge using the Doris Arndt Whimsical Birds stamps Ruthie, Amelia and Flora.  I cut some pieces of Gelli prints that I had on hand in bright colors which seemed appropriate for springtime to use as my backgrounds.  I then stamped each of the three birds onto a piece of Gelli printed paper, focusing on a single color for each.  I used StayzOn ink for these so it would not smear.

I cut out each of the birds, then restamped the eyes for each onto white paper, cut those out, and affixed them atop my original stamped images.  I did the same thing with the beaks and the legs on orange paper.  For the blue bird with the polka dots, I painted those in with green acrylic paint.  

I glued each bird image to one of my tags.  I then stamped the sentiments Sing, Muse and Happy

onto some white paper with black ink and copied it using a smaller setting on my printer to reduce the size of each word.  I cut those out, outlined them in black ink, and affixed them as shown.

Final step was to punch a hole in the top of each tag and tie some colorful ribbon onto each.

We would love to see your spring creations, so go to the Portal for a chance to win some free stamps!