Showing posts with label Boats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Boats. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Heading Home


Another OSA layout challenge, this one was a little strange for me! When I saw all the triangles, I immediately thought of the Japanese Fishing Boat in the Art Neko marine series, and then tried to fit other images with it to make a coherent story following the layout design. The boat is stamped and embossed on a hand colored piece of cardstock created with glimmer mists (Tattered Angels) and polished pigment powders (Luminarte). The triangle behind that one was a shimmery lilac cardstock that I decorated with scattered stars. The small circle design of Sun on Waves was stamped and embossed with silver on a piece of purple cardstock and cut out with a one-inch punch. The smallest triangle was cut from a larger image created with a Fred Mullett woodcut-design stamp. I liked the story suggested by all the pieces combined, and I thought the panel shapes and the designs of the stamps worked very well together. All of the stamped panels were arranged on a piece of purchased, hand-painted and marbled art tissue that picked up the blues and purples in the triangular panels.

Sailing

This card features the Japanese Fishing Boat image from the Taylored Stamps Marine Sheet 2. The Haiku by Issa is also on that sheet. The sailing image is layered over a "dragged" background. The background was made by tearing a piece of copy paper and dragging ink over it onto the base cardstock. Once a line has been inked, the copy paper is moved 1/2 inch and another line of ink is dragged onto the cardstock. The copy paper is moved and lines are dragged until the background is complete.

Doesn't the dragged cardstock look like the marks left in the sand after the tide goes out?