March Referral Theme.......................

.....................With the Artistic Outpost and this months theme is SPRINGPUNK.

I decided to create a SPRINGPUNK bird decorated using the fabulous images from Charles & Amelia and Industrial Backgrounds. My bird has been painted with two coats of Gesso and coloured around the edges with Distress Ink broken china.

His body has a Tim Holtz pocket watch added which I have decorated with text from an old vintage book again coloured with Distress Ink broken china.  The main image has been stamped in black Archival Ink and I have added FLY to a sprocket which I have cut from the sentiment included in the AO plates. I have stamped PIONEER onto white card, sponged with ink and added to the bottom of my bird's body.

I have added the industrial elements from the Industrial Backgrounds to my birds legs and used Clear Rock Candy for a little texture.  Metal washers have been added to the centre of each, no industrial piece is complete without a little metal!

The back of my bird has again been decorated with images from the Charles & Amelia plate this time stamped onto a circular piece of card cut with a Spellbinders die and decorated with vintage paper and my image stamped on top of the text. Adventure has been added to the bottom of the image and a little more metal from my husbands tool box to add a little more interest. I have added an Art Parts wind up key to wind my bird into movement lol, which has been coloured with silver paint dabber.

The top of my bird's head has a couple more of those industrial elements added along with a Game Spinner and propeller, no bird is complete without his propeller!!!

A small circular charm has been added to the wind up key with the word DISCOVER engraved on one side.

We would love to see your interpretation of this months REFERRAL theme, add your creations HERE and enjoy the creative journey.

I would also like to add this piece into The Artistic Stamper Creative Team Blog challenge which this time around is TRAVEL and the stamps I have used are all about travel and adventure and of course my bird travels right (wing travel) sorry could not resist.

Thanks for stopping by, Tracy x x