March on Springtime!

Hello my lovelies,
The month of march is upon up and with it brings the start of a new challenge and later in the month my birthday!
So as a little thank you to my followers i'm having a little

The only rules i have for this is..
You must be a follower and post at least 2 comments on my work this month.
That way the people who really do follow me may be rewarded.
So no advertising on your blogs is needed this is just a thank you to MY followers x
{not sure what the prize will be yet but i'm sure whoever wins will be happy}
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Right now for the new challenge
Over on The Artistic Stamper team blog the theme this month is
'SPRING' 
And what signifies spring better then new life... captured in this altered frame.

I started off by covering an old wooden frame with brown paper.
I then got the a piece of the plastic packaging from one of tims idea-ology packs, i think i used the time pieces one.
I got a piece of green paper and stamped the distressed background all over it in pine needles distress ink.
I then placed it over the plastic and carefully cut out holes where the plastic circle dips of the packaging were.
I attached the paper to the plastic
Then it was time to fill the holes

 I stamped the large bird directly onto the plastic from the back using stazon, i then stamped 2 of the little birds onto white card, cut them out and placed them in the circle with some old string to look like nest material.

 More little stamped birds for this window but with some punched out branches, i used the MS branch punch.

 Same as above only this time i stamped the little bird onto sticky back canvas

 More punched branches, and the little bird house gathering made from shrink plastic

Another big bird in sticky back canvas coloured with distress inks, and more string bedding, which i placed by his feet so it looks like he's been out collecting for the nest!

Finally i stamped the saying onto a scrap of paper {i like the shape of it!} and added a teeny tiny real feather i found and had been saving for a special project.

All the bird stamps used were from either the Birds of a Feather or Free as a Bird sets.

The last thing i did was to mount the finished plastic onto another piece of paper, this time kraft coloured {which i had also stamped with the distressed background to see a contrasting colour through each window} and placed into the frame.

I hope you've enjoyed my project today, sorry it's been a bit of a long post. Hope you didn't nod off lol
I look forward to seeing all your 'spring' creations!
♥ HUGZ ♥