Springs for Spring! SDC192

Our first week of Spring is here and our SDC192 design hostess Valerie has requested we incorporate some kind of spring in our work! 

What could be more springy than creating a garden muse!
I began with a spring door stop and a piece of Gelli printed canvas.  I stamped the canvas with France's Vintage Bill and Ticket to Paris.

Fleur de Girl was stamped, colored, cut and clear embossed and attached to spring.  The canvas is stitched into a sleeve and filled with rice to give it weight and substance to stand.

I added eyelashes with my PITT pen to make her a little extra girly. 

So get springy and have a chance to win some of our terrific hand crafted rubber stamps.
 

Modern Woman; Clean and simple

After the mess I made last week I have something clean and simple.  As much as I love getting funky and messy, I am a huge fan of negative white space in a composition . 

For todays clean and simple card I use portions of two Stampotioque stamps;

modern woman - Janet Klein
splattered mug - France Papillon

I used post-it notes to mask off half of the modern woman image and stamped with black dye ink.  I used Bic markers to color the image.  A piece of scrap paper matched the colors chosen for an offset stamping of "splattered mug" with coffee Archival Ink.   I used Tim Holtz Distress Ink in brushed corduroy around the edges of the paper scrap.

I was pleased that gluing the cellophane wrapper (from flowers) with a UHU stick did the trick!  For balance, I added a harmonious piece of scrap to anchor the composition.  If you don't have and printed cellophane masking the area and stamping with a text block would do the trick. Stampotique has so many nice text stamps that would do the trick!

The woman in the stamp is Leah Klein.  I told her story in an earlier post using another stamp created in her image.  Find the story here.

I know why the cage bird sings

The Stampotique Designer's Challenge SDC 149 was put out this week by design team member Sam Read. Sam was calling for creations using pink, turquoise and polka dots.  I had created my background a few days ago using two shades of aqua acrylic over some lime.  I created loose dots with Peerless watercolors and scribble white water-based Sharpies and graphite pencil to accent.  I applied pink acrylic paint through sequin waste to add polka dots. 


This morning's news brought of the passing of national treasure, author and activist Maya Angelou.  "I know why the caged bird sings" was Angelou's international best seller nominated for the National Book Award.  I decided to use these two Stampotique images; Bird Cage by France Papillon  and a portion of Birdy Up by Kida Nichols. 

The birdy was stamped and embossed, colored with COPICS, fussy cut and glued to background.  The bird cage was stamped over the bird with Stazon and embossed.

Because this layout lacks the seriousness of it's title, I thought I would leave it free of text to be my silent tribute.

A once homeless and a teen mother, Angelou commitment to civil rights and artistic work has made her a truly phenomenal woman of our time.  You can read her elegant poem, Phenomenal Women by clicking the highlighted link.



 

Look to the skies

It's wing week over at the Stampotique Designer's Challenge.  I found this quote that I really liked and thought it was a great opportunity to use Kira Nichols' Stack of Birds .

 

The stack of bird image was stamped with black Stazon and cut apart to pose on acrylic hand-painted limbs.

My mixed media background incorporates France Papillon's Design Cube, and my Screen and Circle Border images. 

The background layers include recycled party napkins.  I used kid's Crayola markers to colorize modeling paste in a portion of a Dina Wakley Vine Template. 

To color paste, scribble marker color of choice (or blend more than one) on craft mat, spritz with water and mix with modeling paste. 

 

Thanks for taking a look!