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Tuesday, 14 August 2012
Mona Lisa Tile
I'm having a really great time on my leave this year. Not going anywhere much, just pottering about and having time to craft and enter blog challenges, which I don't normally have the time for. This piece is for the Artful Times blog challenge, as sponored by Oyster Stamps, and the theme is Mona Lisa.
Now, a few years ago you couldn't move without seeing La Giaconda on a rubber stamp but she's gone out of fashion a bit. So while I was at it, I thought I'd revisit something else I'd not used for a while - Stampbord. And while rummaging through the haunted wing of my stash, I found some Joanna Sheen Leonardo Da Vinci paper and some very old Kanban alphabets. A bit of UTEE, a background stamp and a few well-chosen words when I put my thumb in the molten UTEE (Oh bother!) and here's the result. UPDATE - I was runner-up in the challenge! Woo-hoo!
I hope you like it, and thanks for visiting!
I hope you like it, and thanks for visiting!
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10 comments:
Lovely work. I really like the da Vinci paper. Thumb in utee? OUCH! DS1 did that with a glue gun and peeled the globule off - along with half the skin on his finger. Double ouch. To answer the question... I do really like the work!jenx
You really are having fun playing! Great to see such a different piece. Love it. Hugs, Buttons x
Love the vintage look, and the texture on your tile.
WOW Keren, stampboard hey, that takes me back - lol
Love the background and how you've used the utee.
Thanks for playing along with us this week.
Sam - Artful Times
xxx
This is really special with a lot of things I have never tried
Love Chrissie xxxx
Wow! This is totally gorgeous. How did you get those bubbles on the bottom left? Press bubble wrap into the hot UTEE? I'm intrigued (and sorry about your finger!)
Loving that background - wish you had told us how you did it - the bit like bubble wrap is particularly appealing to me. Lovely images, lovely colouring - a great piece.
Thanks for joining us at Artful Times - Hugs, neet xx
Thank you for the kind comments..the bubbly bit is a "sequin waste" stamp from the Artistic Stamper, stamped into the hot UTEE (with a bit of Versamark on it to help release) then I reheated the area until it melted back into the background a bit. Hope this helps!
You really have taken us back :) this is fabulous and love the texture in the UTEE
Thank you for joining us again at Artful Times
Von ♥
Wonderful piece, Keren!
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