Monday, 12 January 2015

Fragile Papers

As soon as I saw this challenge from Paperartsy details here I knew I wanted to make something fun with this old copy of Alice in Wonderland I picked up in a charity shop.  As well as the lovely old text pages this has a few illustrations in it as well. I taken one of these as start point for my piece. The queens face really makes me smile - she looks cross but is almost crossed eyed lol


I used a piece of corrugated card as the background as I love the peeled back edges this gives.  This was painted with green olives FF paint (not seen in he finished piece at all !) crackled glazed and painted in nougat.

After that I went a bit mad with a spray of this, a hint of that and a splodge of the other as I couldn't get the right colour to tie into my main image.


Got there in the end I think. I've added a grunge paste heart to tie in with the Alice theme, a burlap square and some die cuts. The final touch is a couple of LB flowers with button centres.




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14 comments:

  1. massofhair12 January 2015 at 17:11

    Love your fragile paper project Sarah, the colours are so vibrant and fun and the embellishments are perfect :-) xxx

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  2. Kim12 January 2015 at 17:22

    love the mixed media project, all the textures and colours. Looks great!
    Kim x

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  3. Deborah Wainwright12 January 2015 at 18:49

    Great colours Sarah, love it! Xx

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  4. Hazel Agnew12 January 2015 at 20:29

    This is refreshingly different Sarah, the colours are so vibrant and it is great fun. well done you! x

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  5. Clare Lloyd12 January 2015 at 20:54

    Super project!

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  6. Lucy Edmondson12 January 2015 at 23:40

    Wonderful!

    Lucy x

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  7. kaybee13 January 2015 at 08:38

    This is fun - great combination of colours! I love corrugated card too :D

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  8. craftimamma13 January 2015 at 22:56

    Lovely project Sarah and as Kaybee says great fun and lots of texture too.

    Hugs
    Lesley Xx

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  9. PaperArtsy15 January 2015 at 23:34

    Well you had a lot of fun getting there. You had me hooked from the start with the cracks on the corrugated! Just that got me going oohhhhh!!!

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  10. Etsuko16 January 2015 at 12:12

    Wow! It's a wonderful project Sarah!! Great textures and lots of fun too, I love it! xxx

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  11. Colleen17 January 2015 at 22:12

    Sarah,
    Great use of the illustration from the book and that queen does make me laugh. Love all the texture.

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  12. Craftyfield18 January 2015 at 19:54

    Love the idea of including an illustration on the page. The textures are fantastic and I like the way you arranged all the elements together. Fun page!

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  13. Kezzy18 January 2015 at 20:06

    Wow, really love all the texture on this awesome creation. Happy Creating :-) Kezzy xxx

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  14. Sherry24 January 2015 at 11:36

    Love how you integrated that image in your finished piece Sarah and it looks as though you had a lot of fun along the way xx

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