Freshly Made Sketches

I'm playing along with the Freshly Made Sketches Challenge this week and squeaking in under the wire to meet the deadline.  I moved my sentiment to make it a better fit, but hopefully the challenge police won't be upset.  Using Concord and 9th stamps and dies, I took a tiny leaf stamp with Smoky Slate ink to create the base background.  The bird/branch die was cut twice so I could separate the birds to watercolor them and adhere them to the branch.  I used a cobalt blue from my Pelikan watercolors to color the birds.  I added a darker concentration of the paint with a texture tool to speckle the birds. The wings are popped up with a foam square.  Psst...these birds will be making another appearance later in the week on my blog!  Just sayin'.  

STAMPS: By Your Side and Love You, Mean It (Concord and 9th).
PAPER: Soft Stone (PTI), Ranger watercolor CS.
INK: Smoky Slate (SU).
ACCESSORIES: By Your Side Bird Die (Concord and 9th); Stitched Rounded Rectangle Die-Namics by MFT; Buttons by SU.

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