Embossed Wooden Birdhouse

Before I get started, I wanted to say those who were impacted by the tornado in Moore, OK community you all are in our thoughts and prayers.

Hi all,
If you can recall I had commented a (long) while back, (lil laugh) that I had been working on something really neat. I am not sure if anyone has ever done this but I tried it out and it was fun and turned out so cute!! I am going to make more of these, I wish I would have finished more of these for Mother's Day would have made great gifts. So with further suspense here we go.....

I took a little wooden birdhouse I picked up at Joann's sometime ago and used Tim Holtz Distressed Inks and sponges. First I dabbed on the 2 lighter colors of ink (peeled paint and wild honey) in a circular motion around the house and roof. Once I finished used a stamp set from TE "Bless your Nest", applied versa mark and stamped the image on the wood. I used clear embossing powder, then I used the dark ink TH vintage photo and sponged round the image to get it to show up, I applied the ink until I reached the desired darkness I wanted. I also went over it again with peeled paint and wild honey. For the little bird I used Quick Quotes powder puff ink Blue Hawaiian and embossed with clear powder. I stamped little red flowers on the side, but then didn't like it : ( , so I stamped and embossed leaves over them.  Well those are the instructions, if you have any questions let me know, I hope you all like it. FYI - I plan on spraying the house with a wood protector so I can hang outside.

 Front of the Birdhouse

 ****Here is a close up of the front





 

 Back of Birdhouse

 

 

 Birdhouse - Roof

 

 

 



 

Birdhouse - right side

 

 

 Birdhouse - left side

 

 

 

This project is going to a few challenge sites: Please stop by each one for further inspiration or join the challenge.

 

Can you Digi It - Challenge 36 Anything but a card

Inspire Me Fridays - #103 Anything Goes

Challenges4everybody - Challenge #20 Anything Goes

Through the Craftroom Door - Challenge Anything Goes

Loves Rubberstamps Challenges - Challenge #53 Anything but a card

 

I hope you all got inspired in some way from this post and go create something great! Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the rest of your week and have a wonderful holiday weekend.

Deb