mulberrybirds.pdf

Mulberry Birds

By Maureen Summers

Materials Required:

Small piece of Black mulberry paper.

Sheet of White paper.

Acrylic paints: Red, Yellow, Black and White.

Cream card 50m x 63mm.

Shiny Gold corrugated paper 56mm x 70mm.

Fine paintbrush.

P. V.A. Craft Adhesive.

Card mount: SF03U Hammer Cream.

To Make The Card:

The bird’s body

shape is most easily

made from a corner of

a sheet of mulberry

paper twisted round

so that the point of

the corner is just

where the left leg

joins the body.

Place the mulberry

paper onto a sheet of

paper. Dip the paint-

brush into water and

dampen the outer

edges of the corner of mulberry paper you are

going to use. Gently pull the damp edges away

from the paper to give it a rough edge.

Dampen a line

across the mulberry

as shown making

the shape of the

bird’s back. Gently

pull the mulberry

from each side of

the damp line and

it will separate

leaving a feathery

edge and a few

long thick strands.

These long strands

usually add to the

scruffy look but if they are too near the head or

don’t look right they can be carefully pulled out

or cut off.

Glue the body shape onto the cream card

leaving room for the beak and tail at either end.

The tail feathers

are made from a

few of the long

strands glued onto

the body. Find a

place on the mul-

berry sheet that

contains a few

strands, dampen

around them with

the paintbrush and water and pull them gently

out. Glue them onto the body to make the tail

section allowing them to trail over the edge of

the cream card.

The wing is

made from a small

triangle of mulber-

ry with long

strands at the tip.

Find a suitable

place on the mul-

berry and dampen

a triangle, pull the

paper apart as

before keeping the long strands at the tip. Glue

the wing onto the bird with the long strands

near the tail.

You can make many different types of bird

using this method. The design above shows a

Blackbird on a branch. The branch is made from

a piece of orange string with leaves cut from

hand made paper. The green in the background

is the same paper as used for the leaves.

Using acrylic paints and a fine paintbrush

paint the combs in red, and the beak and feet in

yellow and black. Paint the eye using a small dot

of white paint with a tiny dot of black on top.

Glue the gold corrugated paper onto the front

panel of the card mount placing it about 6cm

from the lower edge and centrally side to side.

Glue the cream card containing the bird centrally

onto this.

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