Articles of Tapestry

The first half of the year has flown by and it's now July. With this card for KCK finished, I'm pleasantly pleased to find myself with all my design team projects done and a month of leisure ahead.

This card went out to Nancy

This Echo Park card is a lift of Pink Heather's amazing fine art collages. I love studying her compositions built up through blocks of squares and circles. While her work has lovely painted textures, mine is mainly pattern paper based. As a tribute, I did break out some acrylic to create the bisected background on the hot-air balloon tag.




The red frame was a rub-on. Originally the flourishes went across the top only. That didn't suit my design so I cut up the excess that went off the page and applied them down the left side of the frame. For a non-stamper like me, rub-ons are a wonderful substitute and in this case even more versatile.



Since the label said Articles de Tapisserie, I add some grey embrodiery floss. Also used red floss to delineate the bissection of the balloon. The snap button at the center of the butterfly is messily sewn on with white thread.




Linking up to these parties.

Echo Park Supplies : Be Mine (Journal Cards, French Chronicle, Element stickers), For the Record (Newsprint, Lace Stripes) Others : KCK Butterfly punch, Basic Grey Sultry rub-on, mini clothes-peg, snap button, vellum