Thank you so much! I have honestly used these so frequently as embellishments since I made this video - I hope you make some and have fun with them, too! Thanks for watching!
Im in love with all your whimsy. YES MAM TO WHIMSICAL JOURNAL. love that idea. Please please please. Thanks anne. I remember reading my kids the sneeches.😊❤
Isn't that the most precious book? Not the best-known of the Seuss stories, but it's always been my favorite, too. Such well-told, important lessons - and just plain fun! Have fun making your birds! And thanks for watching!
Oh my goodness, Anne! I adore your beautiful new flock of birds. They are absolutely fun. I can see a whole journal with a bird theme. Your watercolor flowers on bookpage would go so well with the birds too. 😀 Thank you so much for the shout out. It means the world to me. ❤ Your prints are fantastic 👏 👏👏👏👏 I am so glad you enjoyed the process. Many thanks again for the mention and for sharing your lovely new birds! 🤗❤
Julie, thank YOU for all your creative inspiration! I am really eager to get more into gel plating, and your encouragement gives me confidence! Hugs to you, friend.
Anne! He’s so cute. I’m working on a whimsical journal as well. I found the most beautiful color and pattern fabric in a thrift shop the other day. Thank you for these two tutorials I love birds and I’m going to include them in my journal. 😊❤
Wonderful! I am getting close to doing a full-on whimsical journal - probably later this month - and I'm thrilled that so many other great crafters are interested in doing the same! Let's have fun doing them together!
Laurel, so glad you have tuned in! I would love to connect more with local junk journalers, I really don't know many here! Let's stay in touch! And thanks for watching!
Love doing the first birds and I’m very excited to try these! My next thing to try is gel prints, that looks like fun! Here’s an idea, maybe you could try doing whimsical insects ( 🦋🐞 and 🐝)or little whimsical woodland animals ( 🐿 🦨 🐇🐭) lol….Thx so much and Love 💕 ❤your style!
Oh, thank you SO much! I'm so delighted you're enjoying them. And guess what, a woodland creature is most definitely in the lineup over the next couple of weeks! Thanks for watching, I appreciate you!
LOVE THIS IDEA. I really want to make a whimsical junk journal. So I need more ideas. Would love to see whimsical trees, animals, insects, houses, etc. thanks.
I love these birds too! I am one who started following you when you posted the other whimsical birds video! I have made several greeting cards with those birds and am so excited to try this method now too! Just so happy and adorable! Thanks again for sharing!
oh what fun!!!! I hauled out my bin of old mags- only 1 from 2018- not the correct one, but this seems easy enough. I have some Paper,CS in my bin from 2012 !!!!!!!! your birds are so sweet. tfs
And I just had to add … knees and ankles. Where are the claws! 😂😂😂😂 and it gets me when we say we’re going to cut or chop off the leg or whatever. My comedienne weeps, only a tad for I know it’s only whimsy. 😂😂❤
LOVE these little birds! Just made four of them and placed them on cards for a nursing home residents project I'm working on. You made it so easy to follow, and I look forward to watching more of your videos :)
What a delightful comment - so happy you can bring a smile to dear folks who have brought to much to others during their lives. Thank you for your generous spirit, and thank you for watching!
I was one of the people who found you Via . . . the Knotted Bird😀 Loved it and went on to find your Whimsical Birds, love them😀 Loving this . . . I have been using my makes on cards. I don’t do Journaling but certainly LOVE your birds. 💕🏴
Anne these birdies are whimsical and can bend their legs any way they want. Right? Here is a little bird fact. Birds have knees (forward facing bends) and ankles (backwards facing bends). What we see is the ankle bend so it is backward facing. The knee is closer to the body and covered with feathers and birds stand on their toes. My birds aren't always anatomically correct either but they make me and my friends happy. Thanks for sharing your great ideas.
Incredible you are so talented I love your birds. I think a whimsical journal is a wonderful idea I would definitely do it. Thank you for sharing your talent.
Thank you again, Marisol! I am getting together ideas for that whimsical journal that I've intended to do for months - I will definitely get to it this summer. So glad you are here to watch - many thanks!
Your humor with this bird, I needed that this morning! Thanks. I did attempt one from your last video on whimsical birds but I failed. Gonna try it again!!! I want to learn all sorts of whimsical animals for journals!! I have been stuck with vintage style and I love love love vintage style. But I would love to learn a different style of journal too.
Thank you so much! Yes, I think expanding on our styles and building one look on top of another is one of the most exciting aspects of a creative life. Thanks for watching!
these are very cute. I made one. I think I want to make them two sided. Bend the wings a bit (bigger wings for this) and hang them so they look like they flying. Will take a bit if fiddling with the balance, but I think they will be cheerful and fun
When you removed for gluing, the beak, The poor bird could not speak! However, when glued the beak, Very loudly did the bird SQAW-eeK! 😂❤ Very neat whimsical birds! And baths! I thought of the movie “The Birds” (Alfred Hitchcock) where the woman (mag page) ran from the birds! Those speech bubbles need a bird facing the curly-cue and the woman could be holding a tiny funky nest … or the tail or the body? Thanks for telling us all the good info on the who and where. I’ll go look at the links.❤ thanks much!
So your delightful rhyme had me singing to myself..."head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes....." We're off on all sorts of tangents, aren't we? Thanks as always, Jenn!
Love these so much…made a few with Gelli prints and am making them into cards. Would love to see your take on other whimsical animals like dogs and cats!
Thank you so much, Julie! I really appreciate your feedback and I'm brewing up some future whimsical creatures to bring to you occasionally in the weeks ahead!
I think the circle bird was actually an old sizzix video to show what you can do with their sites. Not as cute. This year they showed how to make rabbits out of their stacking circle dies. ❤❤❤
OMG....ANNE!!...THE FIRST COCKTAIL IS EXACTLY WHAT I WOULD HAVE USED! Thanks for the shout outs! I loved the creations! The Birds are so fun! I have not done any metal/hardware work yet with eyelets or how you did the moving wings.The ad with the little lady I thought WAS a collage...I would have made it..haha...love her...love the oncoming journal too...YES I SO WOULD PUT THAT BIRD ON THAT COCKTAIL and i will acquire that CLARE book and check JULIE out...i JUST started GEL PRINTS 2 weeks ago!! FREE as a BIRD!! ❤❤❤❤B
Brian, I really did think of you immediately when I found those magazine images. You inspire me to stretch my style, and the little birds fit right in! I love the beer sign you made me, and it's right in my craft room. Thanks for all you do! Talk to you soon!
I went to your YT and saw the bottle crate with nice heels (shoes) on a pair of legs sticking up. THAT is … different for sure! Quite quirky. I saw others but those legs stuck in my mind. I’ll never look at a paper soda crate the same again! 😂❤
A friend and I are creating ephemera for an eclectic style journal. It's her first journal and only my second journal. I've been pulling out so many of the ideas that I have watched from your videos, and we are having so much fun that we have been getting together 1 to 2 times a week to work on them. Thank you for yet another wonderful idea for ephemera. I really like the whimsical journal idea, and I think I am going to be creating whimsical ephemera and then creating the journal to put them in. Between you and Natasha Whimsical is its own special category that I love. Keep those ideas coming. BTW I was thinking your whimsical house could be made as a hinge fold, and then you could really do those funky bumped outsides to the house. The writing space would then match and be contained behind the whimsical shape. It's just a variation that could be an additional whimsical house.😊❤
Fellow Oregonian here in Medford. Love these birds and made some of your whimsical ones from your other video. I will definitely try these. Thank you. I also appreciate the links. You just opened up a new world of techniques for me. 👍
Oh my! The collaged whimsical animals of Clare Youngs!! The gorilla reminded me of some of the ones on the Little Big Planet’s video games. Some great, fun ideas! Inspiring. Thanks for sharing the link. ❤
Oh these Birds are just wonderful and they bring A big smile to my face 😁I have bought some of those small Brads and can't wait to try making some lovely Birds 😍p.s I think Gel printing is so satisfying and lots of fun ..
Oh, thank you! They make me smile, too (also make me do silly voices when they "fly") - so glad you also enjoy gel printing, I'm so eager to do more. Thanks for watching!
Hi Anne. Yes!!! I have seen you before (you have just found my channel!) I knew your name & face looked familiar. I don't know if I mentioned the legs bending the wrong way, but I did think it. Those circle birds are genius despite the legs, but love the birds made from paper. The Whimsical papers you saw are for a humourous birds journal. So I will put some on the cover. I have some painted. But I might have a go at these & put them inside. Great stuff 😊😊😊💖💖💖
Thank you so much! I am thrilled to have connected - and I absolutely love your painted papers. I spent part of the afternoon doing some right along with you!
@@annekenlon Aw thank you so much. Yes I first saw your channel when your circle birds came up. Lol at the Whimsical Knees🤣. Love these new birds,too. I am going to add both types to my funny birds journal. ( It's for a swap within the UK. [Not My Group]). I have decided to make it Very Bright & Whimsical and have used those painted papers as pages. 😊😊😊💖💖💖
These are adorable. I wanna make me a whimsical birdie book now. Hmmm thinkin' we might could make a whimsical butterfly out of these same shapes. Also, I have tons of playing cards. How fun would those be to make into birds. Thanks so much, Anne! Enjoying your channel! Kristi
Thanks so much, Kathy! I could answer your question two ways, actually. For the actual video, it probably took me less than 20 minutes to grab everything I needed and do a little stamping on the book margins for the wings. I had everything else pre-made. But at a higher level, it took me almost four years to accumulate various things that went into my stash for this project! I don't have nearly the big stash that a lot of crafters do, but I do have enough that my daughter worries a bit about what she'd do with it should anything suddenly happen to me!
Hi, thanks for watching! That trimmer actually is so common it doesn't even have a brand name - which is, I'm sure, why I got it so cheaply. I'm pretty sure it was an Amazon purchase. If you search "mini paper trimmers - guillotine style" you can find several. When I looked on Amazon just a little bit ago, there was one available for under $14. Mine is not the best quality (the screws on the arm are constantly coming loose) but it does make a nice cut. Hope that helps!