Weekly Art Challenge: Spoil Yourself with Flowers!
Weekly Art Challenge: Spoil Yourself with Flowers!
This past weekend, I spoiled myself with these gorgeous roses from Costco. It's been heavenly walking around the house seeing colorful roses everywhere, what a treat!
I was so inspired by the colors of these roses that I just had to make something with them! So, I took lots of photos with my digital camera. Then printed the photos onto a transparency sheet.
Wanna play too? Treat yourself to a beautiful bouquet of flowers or pick some from your garden (or a friend's garden). Then take photos and print them on transparency...(or paper). OR download and print my flower photo: I've put a high resolution copy in the Weekly Art Challenge folder for you.
Link to this blog and show me your flower photos, I'd love to see!
Bonus Art Challenge: Make an ATC with your Flower Photo
I had so much fun playing with this rose transparency in my studio. I made these 2 pretty Artist Trading Cards.
For this ATC, I used vintage text (sized for an ATC) from the Mail Call collage sheet and glued it to an ATC blank. Then I cut out a piece of rose transparency and held it lightly in place with a glue stick. By the way, I really like the look of the roses on top of the vintage writing...looks so elegant. To secure the transparency into place, I glued a strip of pink Italian post from the Mail Call collage sheet and then sewed vintage buttons on. Before sewing the buttons, I made all of my holes with an awl...made it so much easier. Then topped this piece off with a bit of glitter and an image from my favorite collage sheet: Spoil Me.
For this second ATC, I started out the same way by gluing vintage text from the Mail Call collage sheet to an ATC blank. Then, I covered the whole ATC with a rose transparency...just love the colors! I then sewed the transparency into place (by first poking all of the holes with an awl). I love sewing transparencies onto ATCs, I really think it gives them a nice, extra special look. Then I added the cutest baby in the world from our Lovely Lenses collage sheet along with dazzling butterfly wings from our Butterfly Butterfly collage sheet. A ribbon to hold the "lens" in place and a dabble of glitter and voila!
Link to this blog and show me what you make with my rose photo or your flower photo! I'd love to see! : )
Bonus Gift of the Week: Vibrant Stickers!
For this week, when you place an order with ARTchix Studio, type "Spoil Me!" in the comments section of your order and we'll include this fabulous mini sheet of stickers!
Very pretty, Helga! The colors are so gorgeous! I really like the one with the baby :)
Posted by: Beth Moran | July 23, 2008 at 11:25 AM
I found your blog by Belinda :-) your art is beautiful!!
Posted by: Sanja | July 30, 2008 at 02:15 AM