These little tranklements were an extra Easter craft idea …………
……. made after I found these super cute, wooden ducks in wellies embellishments in The Works, a pack of 20 for just £1.
I started by colouring them with white and yellow Ranger Enamel Accents, adding their beaks and eyes when they were dry.
I used either a wooden easel (sourced from China) or wooden sign (Amazon) to put them on, giving them a couple of coats of clear, satin, quick dry varnish (Wilko) before sticking anything on them, to ensure that any acrylic pen I used later wouldn’t bleed into the wood.
I did the writing first to make sure that it would be more or less centred before adding the ducks. Having varnished the boards beforehand it also meant that if I made any mistakes I could easily wipe the pen off without ruining any of the black paint.
With the ducks glued into position I was then able to do all the fiddle fart.
First by adding a little green Dovecrafts 3D Enamel Effects round the edges and on the easel shelf, followed by the tiny Fimo nail art flowers ……..
…… and then the stems and leaves using a light green acrylic pen plus white dot clusters here and there using a fine tipped Posca Pen.
I was nervous of adding the wings and lines on the wellies using a fine tipped black Sharpie pen, my efforts are far from perfect I know, but they will do!
My apologies for the quality of the photos on this post, I think I got a bit of grease on the lens of my camera.