Trick or Treat – Birds of a Feather

Trick or Treat – Birds of a Feather – is the first part of my series of Catalogue Sample Recipes. The purpose of this is to supply you with more detail on what products were used to create the gorgeous inspirational photographs you can see in your Stampin’ Up! catalogues. And if I actually own the products used in a Recipe/Project, I will include full tutorial instruction for you. Where I don’t own the product, I will take my best guess at how to create it.

Trick or Treat – Birds of a Feather

Wouldn’t this little cutie be perfect for a kiddies Trick or Treat party. And if you remove the ‘trick or treat’ sentiment, you could replace it with something suitable for other occasions. Simply as a little surprise treat for kiddies, or a kiddies pirate themed birthday party! Don’t restrict yourself to ‘single use’. With a little imagination you can stretch the potential for your craft materials.

Click on the photo about to check out the PDF as it has a little more detail to it. 

Yes, I can hear you shouting ‘but the duck is holding a pumpkin lantern!’. No worries! Just use the ‘marker to stamp technique’ to leave out the lantern. Easy peasy!

Marker to stamp technique

Take your marker (brush end) and apply ink to the areas of the stamp that you wish to use. Use the markers sideways on, as shown above, rather than using the tip of the marker.

In this instance I’m using a stamp from the ‘Over The Moon’ stamp set, but in relation to the ‘duck stamp’, you would use your marker to colour in the areas of the stamp with the duck image, but leave out the lantern.

Tip: in stamps that are solid (rather than line images) you could also use this technique to add additional colours to a single stamp image. You can tell which stamps are ‘solid’ images, in the catalogue, because they are pictured in solid black rather than just a black line.

Isn’t this just a gorgeous little project! Try it out for yourself.

Make sure to watch out for more Catalogue Sample Recipes to come. In fact the easiest way to keep updated is to sign up directly for my Mailing List to get posts sent to you directly. Simply CLICK HERE and leave your name and email address. It’s as easy as that. 🙂

Handy Product List

Trick or Treat – Birds of a Feather:

For your convenience, here is a handy product list.

Simply click on any of the images below to find out more about the product or to order it directly.

So, until next time. Happy Crafting.

Thanks for stopping by today. See you soon. 🙂