My lovely teamies at Everybody Art Challenge want us to make an ATC. I have never made one before and I have to confess to being very outside my comfort zone. It took me ages to come up with an idea for my 3.5 x 2.5 inch card but I knew I wanted to upcycle some old snippets of abandoned watercolour card I had in my stash.
A couple of years ago I went to an "art class" on a cruise ship. I have italicised the phrase "art class" because frankly, the "teacher", whilst pleasant and capable of producing some nice pieces herself, had absolutely no idea about teaching and came up with some (in my view) completely unsuitable projects for our class who were probably aged between 30 and 85! The first session would have been ideal for 3-10 year olds and involved drawing through a giant basic butterfly shaped stencil and painting it with watercolour paints. I outlined more than one butterfly, and overlapped them. We were given no idea how to prepare our paper, mix our colours, or put the paint on the page. We actually had no instruction whatsoever and at the end of the class I had learned absolutely nothing and had a childlike flat image of parts of 3 yellow butterflies against a blueish background.
Upon my return from the cruise, I cut the large watercolour paper into 4 pieces and put them in my stash. It was another one of these 4 pieces I used today for the base, back, and frame of my ATC. And wow! I'm thrilled with how it worked out for my project. I used an Aall & Create Die for the abstract honeycomb and cut my inked and stamped apple and honey wand from the same piece of discarded watercolour cardstock.
Do check out the wonderful inspiration of my teamies and share some love with the Design Team by leaving comments on their blogs and then why not come and play along with us
I am entering my card into the following challenges:
Creative Inspirations - Sept - Always Anything Goes
Krafty Chicks #732 - Stamps
We Love to Create Mixed Media #8 Anything Mixed Media Goes
Simon Says Stamp (Mon) & Simon Says Stamp (Wed) - "Stamp it" for Stamptember!
Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers #253 A is for Autumn. I thought my ripe apple and honey combined with my colours were a good match for Autumn
3 comments:
Great card,thanks for playing our challenge this week at Krafty Chicks Challenge. Have a great day! Leanne DT Member/KCC
What a beautiful card! I love the apple and honey. Thank you for sharing and playing along with Polkadoodles ~ Wendy
And this is exactly why we keep our "dislikes". This is very unique. Thanks so much for playing with us at the Sisterhood!
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