Faye's Adventures in Art
Sunday Gothic Arches has as its theme this week Haute Couture. Here is my entry to this challenge. I have used gesso, Moon Glow antique rose pink glitz spritz and moon shadow phantom fuchsia, Stampendous kaleidoscope embossing powder. The arch and the flourishes were done in silver embossing powder.
For the Saturday Workout challenge this week we are using acrylic paint. Here are 2 views of my highly reflective 4x4 on which I have stamped yellow leaves using my hand-carved maple leaf stamp. The background is matboard with various lumiere paints and Moon shadow mists. For those of you too young to know this, the words are from the song: Autumn Leaves from the 50s.
This week's challenge for Theme Thursday is to do a 4x4 using the color purple. I put PearlEx Misty Lavender and Interference Blue and Perfect Pearls Interference Violet into little spray bottles, added hot water and sprayed them one at a time on heavy cardstock, drying each before adding another one. I used my allium stamp (I think it's Stampin' Up) and Le Plume II colors pale violet and leaf green. The woman and the flowers are from a magazine. The quote is from Alice Walker's "The Color Purple." The full quote is (minus one word): "I think it ---- God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."
Using a Quietfire house template I made this ATC for the CBH challenge. The first thing that popped into my head was the saying that "home is where the heart is." I first stamped my card with Distress Fired Brick ink. The top stamp is a Purple Onion design. The kissing couple stamp is a Hearts in Touch stamp. I sprayed this piece of photo paper with yellow and red alcohol inks and wrote in white pen.
This ATC started out as digital and I printed it out on glossy photo paper. After this I put in the arch with a Sharpie gold marker and added a few pieces of paper collage. It's sort of a tribute to Strauss. I'm entering this in the Gothic Arches challenge for this week where the theme is turquoise.
For the challenge that SaWo presents this week, I have used a Graphics Fairy image of Thumbelina waving. A butterfly is pulling her along the water on a lily pad. An additional flourish representing more water reeds is stamped on acetate with StaZon and a Purple Onion stamp. This entry is a 4x4. The image is set onto a card stock that I have dabbed with Moon Glow Starburst stain of color purple. I oversprayed it with Moon Glow Shadow mist in blue-violet. This entry is also being shown in the Layers of Color challenge.
The theme for Theme Thursday this week is Road Trip. I have used a 4x4 which I gessoed and then dabbed with Moon Glow Starburst antique rose pink and canna lily burnt orange. A finishing touch for the background was an embossing with Stampendous Kaleidoscope powder.
