Over on the Paper Artsy blog this week one of the GD was Keren Baker. On day one she did a lovely piece called Tea Bag lady. You can pop over and see it here. Well worth the visit!
I took inspiration from Keren for my piece. I wanted to try and keep it as simple as possible. I cut a piece of grey board and painted it in snowflake...put it aside to dry. I painted a piece of smooth card with nougat as my base and stamped the girl from LP022 in black archival. I stamped again in vermillion archival and cut out the cheeks and the lips to layer over the original image. Using a sharp craft knife I removed pieces from the image randomly. After cutting out the main image (leaving a small border around the edge) I cut another piece of card to go underneath and rubbed the vermilllion ink pad over it. When that was dry I gave it two coats of gloss glaze added some glossy accents to the lips and some blue promarker around her eyes. I used some 3d foam to stick the two pieces together.
For the background I used a piece of the new tissue paper that paper artsy have and brayered a mixture of frescos..layering them after each one was dry. Nougat,snowflake,blood orange,london bus,beach hut and eggplant. I then used nougat to stamp randomly over the background and vermillion and black for the small splatter staps from HPxtra01.
To finish off I used a selection of gems and pearls and framed it with black archival...not my usual colours but really enjoyed this one!!
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I took inspiration from Keren for my piece. I wanted to try and keep it as simple as possible. I cut a piece of grey board and painted it in snowflake...put it aside to dry. I painted a piece of smooth card with nougat as my base and stamped the girl from LP022 in black archival. I stamped again in vermillion archival and cut out the cheeks and the lips to layer over the original image. Using a sharp craft knife I removed pieces from the image randomly. After cutting out the main image (leaving a small border around the edge) I cut another piece of card to go underneath and rubbed the vermilllion ink pad over it. When that was dry I gave it two coats of gloss glaze added some glossy accents to the lips and some blue promarker around her eyes. I used some 3d foam to stick the two pieces together.
To finish off I used a selection of gems and pearls and framed it with black archival...not my usual colours but really enjoyed this one!!
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Wow, this really pops. Love the background. Love how you cut bits out the LPC stamp. Very cool effect. May have to give that a go
ReplyDeleteooh, gorgeous! was thinking you were quiet on twitter, now I know why. The background looks fabulous, and I love the pop of the red behind the cutouts on the lady.
ReplyDeleteWow! Stunning card and fab background xx
ReplyDeleteWow! This is stunning - the face really does stand out and I love you choice of colours. Chris
ReplyDeleteBeautiful card, great colours, so vibrant. Ruth x
ReplyDeleteThis is amazing Lin, gorgeous background and the way you've cut out pieces of your image is brilliant! xx
ReplyDeleteBeautiful detail and textures Lin, great colour choices too. Love your board :-) xxx
ReplyDeleteThat is awesome! Love all your paper cutting-the colours poking through look fab! Such a gorgeous project! x
ReplyDeleteFabulous take on the project Lin xxx
ReplyDeleteWonderful, Lin!
ReplyDeleteLucy x
Your technique goes so well with the LP Asian image. This is gorgeous, Lin! Sorry I'm so behind with commenting again! Julie Ann xxx
ReplyDeleteThis looks amazing Lin, gorgeous background and colours! xxx
ReplyDeleteWow this is fabulous! Love the colours Lin and brilliant technique for the main image. I've not had chance to visit the PA Blog this week. Must rectify that now~!
ReplyDeleteHugs
Lesley Xx