Thursday 18 July 2013

Black, White and Red

Hi and welcome! This month's inspiration at ARTastic has been based on a beautiful artwork by Lorraine Lewitzke  'Rock and Roll Party', with the challenge being to use black and white with one other colour. To see what the design team has come up with pop over to:
http://artasticchallengeblog.blogspot.com.au/
I've chosen a school photo of  son and self, probably taken in 1988, when he was in year 2.  I wanted the background to reflect some of the softness of the inspiration piece, so used lengths of ribbon and lace and sequin waste over a lightly patterned paper.
Cogs were die-cut and randomly daubed with Kindy glitz. The background of the clock (from Dusty Attic) was embossed with an embossing folder, and the clock heat embossed.


To complete the layout, I added embossed chipboard corner flourishes and added buttons, (the hands on the clock are also buttons) lacquered wooden stars and fabric flowers.
The two white buttons are from one of son's old school shirts!

 
Thank you for visiting and while you are here, maybe you'd like to take a peep at ARTastic's new sister blog, Pixels and Paper Challenge Blog.http://pixelsandpaperchallengeblog.blogspot.com.au/

Thank you for your lovely comments, and I hope to catch up with some of  my favourite blog sites soon.
Cheers, Di

9 comments:

  1. Amazing Di - those embossed corners look terrific and I love how you have brought in special memorabilia in the form of his uniform buttons to complete your page.

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  2. WOW! What a blast of colour! Love the mix of buttons/die cuts and that fab clock. Hugs, Jenny x

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  3. Wow this is so fantastic. Love your enterpetation of our art this month, and the use of the buttons from the school uniform. Thank you for playing along at ARTastic this month :)

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  4. I love the colours you have used. It is very eye-catching! Thanks for playing at ARTastic with us.

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  5. I love the energy of your piece this month Di. All the gorgeous little bits that you have added certainly add to your story. Thank you for joining in at ARTastic this month.

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  6. WOW. Great photo and LOVE all the textures!!!! The red background really helps it all pop!

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  7. Wow Di, what an amazing pop of colour! Love what you did with the clock face. You always come up with something fantastic! And the hands on it are so cute. I love reading your little background stories. They really add meaning to your work. Well done.

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  8. Great take on the challenge. Love all the cogs you have used. Thanks for joining in at ARTastic =)

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  9. Fabulous work with all the details!!! Thanks for playing along at ARTastic!

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