Bird spotting with Bear

I am really enjoying Bear staying with us and we have been on some long walks. One lovely park near us is Beddington and we took a long stroll over there. He loves sniffing around in the woods.

 We also took a walk around the lake

 and spotted these cuties.

 Yes 8 fluffy goslings with Mum

and some cygnets too.

There was also Joe Crow looking down at us from a tree.

All these birds inspired me to come home and make some Artist trading coins with a spring bird theme.

I had a piece of paint resist card in my stash made with Tim Holtz' Urban tapestry stamps so I made a background by blending some blue and green distress inks onto it. I also added some Broken china ink through my Tim Holtz bark stencil.

 I added some stamping using my treasured Bronte verse from Visible Image, sadly long discontinued but one of my fave script stamps.

 I die cut some of my CL birds and coloured them with distress inks.

I also used the owls and sentiment stamps from Visible Image's Into the Woods. stamp set. I stamped and embossed a nest using one of the stamps from their Organics stamp set.

This is what I put together.

There are 3 as they were made for an Facebook UK swap group that I am a member of.

Number 1

 Number 2

 and number 3

and here they are as a group.

I would like to enter my A T Coins into the following challenges;

Penny black and More 1/3 going round in circles
Through the craft room door 1/2 anything goes
Happy Little stampers watercolour anything goes
Mix it up 1/5 anything goes
Pile it on 1/3 favourite colour mine is definitely blue
Addicted to stamps and more 1/3 make your mark

Thanks so much for stopping by today,

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x