Atc´s Grungy Birds

Hello and welcome to Tuesday post. How's everybody? I enjoy and have fun creating colorful Atc´s. I hope you like them.

I've also been playing with  Mixed media marks, Grungy Stuff  and Textured Birds. Very easy to do, we start. We cut watercolor paper in a size  2,5 x 3,5 inches. In my case, the paper smooth and hot pressed.And I color the backgrounds with inks.

When the backgrounds dries (we can speed up the process with a heat gun) we're going to add texture and depth with permanent black ink, and with oxide inks here and there.

With stencils and textured pasta with a crackle effect we integrate the different elements. I have used opaque white paste, if you want to add color, you can mix with pigments, inks in sprays, acrylic paint. Dare to try different possibilities.

To speed up the drying process we use a dryer. And when the texture paste is completely dry, we apply more color with inks in sprays.

To give it depth and highlight the background colors, I like to apply black ink to the edges of the atc.To finish , I pass the sewing machine with black stitches.

One of the parts that I enjoy the most is the composition, I have to admit that it is usually the part that takes me the most.I start by stamping, coloring and cutting out some of the birds from the set.

Now I leave you some photos with details of the project.I hope you like it as much as I do when making them.

Here are the  Rubber Dance Stamps I used:

Mixed media marks

Grungy Stuff

Textured Birds

I hope you enjoyed and don't forget to visit regularly. The team has amazing inspirations every day, just for you.

Verónica.