Use Green as your Primary Color!

Kristen is hosting this week's Stampotique Designers Challenge, which is "Green as your Primary Color". If you'd like to play along with this challenge, visit Stampotique Designers Challenge blog and be sure to read the rules, so that you'll have the chance to win a great prize!!!

Here's what Kristen had to say about her challenge: 

Hello there, Kristen here, and I am the host of this week’s Challenge.  I am a huge fan of using Primary colors in my projects, with Red being my favorite, but since it is March, and this month the month of the beginning of spring and St. Paddy’s Day. I am challenging you to use GREEN as the main color in your project.  I can’t wait to see what you create. Have fun and have a great week!

Here's my project which took a left turn somewhere, but definitely not at Albuquerque!

If you've visited here before, you know that I love birds and Stampotique has some terrific ones. In fact, there's a whole category for birds! One of my most favorite Stampotique birdies is Birdy Shoes.  There's something so sweet and whimsical about him.

Birdy Shoes is a very fashionable bird and loves to celebrate all the holidays by getting into the holiday spirit. He morphed into a green bird here and was colored with Copic markers after being stamped with Tuxedo Black Memento ink onto Neenah cardstock. His beak was coated with Clear Gelly Glaze pen to make it shiny and dimensional. He was fussy-cut and set aside.

His top hat was die-cut from dark green silk-finish specialty paper by FiberMark using a very old die from QuicKutz. The hat band and clover were die-cut from some even older fabric paper from my stash using another very old die from QuicKutz. I colored the clover with Copics because I could.

Here's where my plans went awry. I had planned to use some very old green patterned paper from the Lime Rickey 6x6 pad by Basic Grey. But then I found a clover punch, punched up a strip of scrap paper, and sponged Mown Grass Distress ink through the paper onto green cardstock for Birdy Shoes  to stand on. I liked it, but it needed something, so I sponged Mown Grass Distress ink over the dot portion of the Punchinella stencil by The Crafter's Workshop. Better, but still not right.

I grabbed my Tenticurl stamp and my Mown Grass Distress paint. I applied the paint to the stamp and stamped it onto green cardstock. It wasn't quite long enough, so I stamped it again upside down, quasi-joining up the Tenticurls, then fussy-cut it, and adhered it over the clover piece.

But the card front still needed something so Mown Grass Distress ink was sponged over a circle stencil.

Now Birdy Shoes had something to stand upon and he had a background! He was adhered onto Tenticurl and his hat was added. Now it was time for some more St. Patrick's Day accessories. Did Birdy Shoes need a rainbow, a pot of gold, or something else?

Since he's my stamp, he obviously needed a nice cold mug of green beer. I used a very old QuicKutz Beer Mug die to die-cut a piece of acetate packaging. I taped the mug down, covering the handle and the top and sponged Limelight Fresco Finish acrylic paint over the acetate. Limelight is translucent, so some Mowed Lawn Distress paint was sponged over it. The tape was removed and the beer mug was set aside. The QuicKutz Beer Mug die, actually had a companion Beer Foam die, so I used it to die-cut white paper, when I couldn't find this fluffy paper I had (somewhere safe). I used Copics to make the beer foam look foamy, then adhered that over the beer mug, then positioned the beer mug on the Tenticurl very close to Birdy Shoes.


Banner was stamped with Tuxedo Black Memento ink onto Neenah cardstock, colored with Copic markers, and fussy-cut. It was added to the top of the card front. Ancient (from 1992 or 1993) rub-ons from WH Smith (in England) were used to add Mar 17 to the Banner's pennants. Mown Grass and Pine Needles Distress ink were used to edge the card front, which was adhered to a green A2 card.

Thanks for visiting today!

I shall enter this card in the following challenges:
• Artistic Inspirations: St. Patrick's Day
• Crafty Boots: Green
• Amusing Challenge: Green
• Open-Minded Crafting: Use Green 
• Craft for the Craic: Something Green
• Craftitude Challenge #60: Anything Goes/Green