I am so excited today to be a guest designer at Scrapstuffz Inspired by challenges. Here is this month's image:
When I got the assignment Maya Angelou had just passed and all I could think about was her story. I usually only scrap pictures but this sentiment could not be expressed in the size of a card.
I loved how the cobalt blue was so striking against the natural wooded background. So I started with that and found some really old Creative Memories paper that I embossed with a new 12" embossing folder of trees. I heavily chalked the paper with Quick Quotes Mocha Moma to bring out the embossing. I also used some of the matching stickers adhered to white card stock and popped up with dimensionals.
For the bird and the cage I wanted to use my Tim Holtz Sizzix die. I experimented with many papers and settled on the copper glitter paper for a sort of "gilded" cage. I then cut the bird three times. The first is a brown printed paper for the branch, second is a cobalt tissue paper, third is the wing in blue glitter paper. I put a brown pearl for the eye.
I had all these cobalt and copper beads in the jewelry half of my studio. I popped the cage up so the beads would "dangle" appropriately.
I liked how the bird feeder "dangled" in the image and thought mine should, too. I used some copper ball chain on a 7 Gypsies brass hook. I made one "panel" of my page woodgrain. I felt the cage popped more hanging on the solid slice of paper. I also cut various music notes with my Sizzix.
I picked out a fitting quote from the novel, wrote it on craft card stock...
and used Creative Memories Sophisticate brown letters for the memorial.
Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you enjoyed my guest designer post as much as I enjoyed doing it!
I would like to enter this in the following challenges:
http://paper-wings-productions.blogspot.com/2014/07/july-challenge-with-creative.html until July 31
http://artisticinspirationschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/challenge-100.html until July 19
http://sparklingblackrose-craftmylife.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/all-crafts-challenge-junejuly_2.html?showComment=1404157403362 until July 31
http://fattastictuesday.blogspot.com/2014/07/fan-tastic-tuesday-challenge-44.html until July 20
http://greatimpressionsstamps.blogspot.com/2014/07/july-challenge-animal-friends.html until July 31
http://artisticinspirationschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/challenge-100.html until July 19
http://sparklingblackrose-craftmylife.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/all-crafts-challenge-junejuly_2.html?showComment=1404157403362 until July 31
http://fattastictuesday.blogspot.com/2014/07/fan-tastic-tuesday-challenge-44.html until July 20
http://greatimpressionsstamps.blogspot.com/2014/07/july-challenge-animal-friends.html until July 31
