ALTERED Birdhouse

From this....

To this!!

Materials:

Paper: Graphic45 Times Nouveau "Hot Tomato" (red houndstooth)

Graphic45 Playtimes PAst "Child's Play" (Dominoes)

Graphic45 Communique "Society Page" (black diamond)

Graphic45 Fashionista "Haute Couture" (dictionary)

Chipboard : Maya Road "Birds of a Feather"

Metals: Kimberly Polson (keys, photo turns and photo corners)

Making Memories (brads)

Tim Holtz "Sprocket Gears" (sprocket)

INK: Tim Holtz Distress Inks "Fired Brick" and "Vintage Photo"

Tim Holtz "Adage Tickets"

Tim Holtz "Journaling Tickets"

Tim Holtz "Philosophy Tags"

Tim Holtz "Washers"

Hemp string is from some packaging

Tim Holtz Distress Tool (by TONIC)

Glossy Accents

Beacon's 3-in-1 Craft Glue

OK, this is TOTALLY F U N!! You HAVE got to TRY THIS. All the papers from Graphic45 ROCK...so that is easy, just buy them all. Everything Tim Holtz is a must have too, so just start there....lol

I have had this little wooden birdhouse sitting around for a while (someone gave it to me) and I have been wanting to get it decorated but was never sure how I wanted to start. With the arrival of the Graphic45 papers, I had my answer! I inked the chipboard bird and twig just by rubbing the ink from the pad onto the chipboard. After it dried a bit i stuck my brads and photo turn on the bird to make the "wing" and then went to town with the GLOSSY ACCENTS!. Cutting the paper to fit on the birdhouse was not easy, but with a little tweaking it worked out pretty well. It used very little paper actually. I cut each domino from the sheet and then distressed each edge with the distress tool to give it a more authentic "roof tile" look (at least at my house anyway!). I thought that was pretty clever myself! I distressed the adage tag and journaling tag with the "Vintage Photo" ink after I crumpled them up and flattened them out again. Paper was attached to the wood with the Beacons 3-in-1 glue as well as all the other items. That glue is perfect for this project.

I have to do this again...now to find some more little houses!!!