Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Wednesday Stamper - Colorful

For Wednesday Stamper's Colorful theme. I was experimenting with Trish Bee's Gold Leaf resist technique, but was doing it from memory and didn't realize I was supposed to use watercolors. Ooops! I used acrylics but still like the look of it. Elephant stamp is one of my faves from The Stampsmith's Passage to India plate. The whole piece is stitched on to a piece of black velvet. Very hard to see from the scan.

I'm thinking it would make a really cool purse. I don't know how I'd protect the paper though....maybe just scan the whole thing and then print it on fabric? Iron on transfer?

12 comments:

  1. Gorgeous, very powerful design.

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  2. Beautiful bg, Shelly. It looks like a gorgeous piece of fabric. Nice technique!!

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  3. Gorgeous, so rich and beautiful. I fancy elephants very much, what a great stamp!

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  4. Wow Shelly this is simply beautiful.
    Amazing card. Love them.

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  5. Artfully done. Great graphic appeal. You do amazing work with color. I would break into a sweat if I had to do something with orange tones.
    I think this would make a great wall hanging, too. For a purse, maybe print it onto canvas paper. Pretty durable stuff.

    :-)
    Shelly

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  6. Ohh, so vibrant! Love the elephant image and the technique sounds really interesting!

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  7. i fancy elephants too, no i dig them. and have that plate but it's still uncut. ouch!!! love your piece, beautiful colors!

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  8. Now that is what I call colour. Lovely and vibrant

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  9. Amazing artwork with awesome colors!!

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  10. If you can remove your paper piece from the velvet fabric backing, then maybe you could sandwich the paper piece between Aleene's Paper Napkin Applique glue. It will protect 1 layer of a paper napkin, but I don't know if it will protect a thick piece of paper/cardstock. Or there's always those scrapbooking purses that have a plastic window. :D

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  11. This is a wonderful design! Great colors, and I like the elephants.

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Thanks so much for taking the time to share your thoughts. I appreciate your comments so much!