Cheery Birdhouse.

Octobers Challenge has started over at Altered Eclectics...and I was in two minds what to alter as my design team project..so off I went for a root around in my stash.
I had completely forgotten I had this birdhouse..it's actually quite large..6" (15.5cms ) wide and 9.5" (24cms )  high.
The colour of the birds determined what colours I was going to use for the birdhouse as they are so bright I needed colours to compliment..so I went green and white..love this shade, DoCrafts's Pistachio..fab isn't it.

After sealing the wood with gesso I painted it with acrylic paints..I found a wooden candle stick that was perfect for the stand so I paint that to match the house. I then papered the sides of the house and added the bingo number that I had also painted, I used a black sharpie pen to go over the numbers.

I stamped a couple of "Bird" sentiments to the front of the birdhouse and added the lace along the base edge. Then I spent a while die cutting and rolling up the flowers, using the same paper pad...once made I added them to the candlestick and to the birdhouse itself, also adding some die cut leaves.

I found some flower wire and made a few coils to add with the flowers.....

To finish I added the birds..originally I was only going to use one, but playing around I thought the 2nd bird looked great sat on the roof.

Why not pop over to the challenge blog and have a lookie at all the other gorgeous projects by the design team..you can find the challenge here at
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