Cardinal ATC

I needed a winter bird ATC, so I used my old TAC cardinal - my favorite winter bird stamp, if you don't count the doves (doves are awesome for Christmas).

I will say I had problems.  The background is some white paper that I painted silver, for the shimmer and for the brush strokes (I love the look of a painted background!).  I stamped with Memento black, which took okay, then I tried coloring it with copics.  The copics did not adhere well - when I tried to bring in colors for blending, it took off the original colors.  I then decided to try my glitter pens, because, well, you know how I am with glitter pens.  I then blended the glitter pen ink with my LaPlume markers, which worked surprisingly well.

I couldn't resist framing it with a little bakers twine.  I love the look of the bakers twine with the cardinal!

Challenges:

• Shopping our Stash - Winter, not Christmas
• Marker POP - jewel tones in coloring