Wednesday 15 May 2013

Inspiration

I have been following the guest designers over on the Paperartsy blog and was very taken with a project i saw last week, unfortunately i didn't finish it in time to enter the challenge but i enjoyed making it anyway.


I used a paper mache substrate, cut some diamonds out of corrugated cardboard and stuck them on, i then added some grunge paste and painted the whole thing with a neutral base colour.

I then use guacamole and limelight paint to add some layers, i didn't have the blood orange paint that was used in the original so i chose the closest i had which was barn door distress paint, i watered it down and sprayed it onto the canvas.

I painted the cage in various shades of brown and added some gold shimmer spray, the bird was painted and then edged with treasure gold. I added a small charm to the bottom of the cage.

I cut some flowers using the paperartsy flower die, one from grunge paper and one from coffee filter paper which i then sprayed lime green.

The sentiment is from paperartsy and is stamped onto some foil i had coloured with alcohol ink, my good friend Sam said it looked a bit plain down the left hand side so i stamped some script in black.



6 comments:

  1. Oooh lovely and yeah I think the addition of the script just brings it all together nicely.

    Sam xxx

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  2. Shame you weren't in time but it's still a fab make and as long as you enjoyed making it that's all that matters. I love the pop of blue xo

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  3. Emma, it is lovely! The colours are fab, i love the script on the diamonds, in fact all of it!

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  4. lovely soft colour palette Emma.

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  5. Emma this is lovely..Sam's right the script finishes it off..I love the colours you've used they look great!

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  6. That's beautiful. The colours are so pretty.

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