January 2019 Art Playground challenge
This month topic is WIND OF CHANGE. New year is a wonderful opportunity to have new decisions and change the things we always say we will but never finds the right timing. So… in that spirit we want to encourage you with our monthly tip – Don’t be afraid to get out of your comfort zone and seek for changes and development. We all have things to learn, fields to explore, new skills to develop…Try to make new decisions for your art as well!
Love – heart and soul
Created for the Art playground January challenge I moved out of my comfort zone to use more flowers, and work in pink, in a layered mixedmedia style to create this lovely little 7×7 inch greetings card.
I was inspired by the pink roses and heart in the challenge image, and the hint to mixedmedia with the spattering of colour.
I have added both a pearl and silver charm heart to the layout, the word ‘heart’ in the subtitle and ‘love’as the main title.
I have used 15 small to tiny paper blooms over a resin rose swag. I have added 8 paper leaves and 9 sugar stamens to bring glitter and sparkle to the design, which is made of layered chipboard elements over a Lemoncraft ‘House of Roses’ paper, finished in tones of pink paint and glitter.
The tactile element comes from the soft downy white feathers.
I hope to make more small mixedmedia projects in the coming year. Thank you for the challenge, thank you for looking.
hugs
Debbie
Using simple layering and the addition of paper, resin and ribbon blooms, these excellently printed detailed papers need little enhancement.
I pulled out the hint of golden yellow from the feature image into two doily halves coloured with Tim Holtz inks (Fossilised Amber and Wild Honey), increasing the warmth of the layout.
I used a piece of recycled acetate packaging measuring just under 6×4 inches as the base for this layout, adding clear gloss gel through a stencil and sprinkling a tiny bitter of glitter to this base layer, finished with script washi tape.
The finished piece has lots of depth and textural interest.
Except, now my husband is in a wheelchair beaches are off the menu. Created in memorium of Beaches Before Wheels (BBW).
Mechanical Dreams, find it, the world that never was
An assortment of cog sizes in paper, snipart, snipart MDF and metal were treated with the same Lindy’s starburst spray, and tucked under and around the the feature image, overlapping each other to create depth.
The finished depth of this project is around 9mm.
The 8 inch background paper was enhanced with script stamp and overlaid with a full 6 inch page, layered with airship postcard, and airship front cover miniature.
The atc is finished with a compass charm, aligning the E east with the E of Everything in the quote. A tassel in complimentary pale blue green finishes the card.
I identified a couple of Lindys starburst sprays that matched the blue and amber colour scheme of the papers, and used them to colour the canvas board tag background. I tore some scraps of paper to add further interest and stamped with script.
An assortment of cog sizes were treated with Lindy’s copper starburst spray are tucked under and around the the feature atc. A little more dimension was added to the wings, and some tangled gold thread highlights the clock face.
I would love to get some small pipes, cogs and corrugated product to make a miniature model of that dear little seahorse.
The moment of inspiration came when I created the word ‘yes’ in sand and 3D gel medium on a MDF heart, copying the way she had written it at the time, using the round end of a paintbrush to engrave in the gel. Other beach inspirations come in the form of the lighthouse clock glass cabochon, the white rough edge of the paper likened to the foam edge of a wave on the beach. I have also included small sandy accents and maintained a sea blue, sandy brown and seashell white colour combination.
