Thursday 4 June 2015

Winter has Set In

Winter has begun here in Geelong, apparently it is the coldest start to winter since 1949. Gee thanks mother nature, when will summer be back. This cold, wet and rainy weather is the perfect time to spend in my space.

With all this time spent in my creative space I am quick of the mark this month and have created a card to enter into the June Challenge over on the ARTastic Challenge Blog. The art work they have used this month is by  Luka Va titled 'Bird King'


Along with using the art as inspiration you must also include wood veneer and/or birds. Not only was I able to find a bird within my stash but it was made out of wood veneer, could not have more perfect. Now what to do with it. 


The humming bird on the left is what it originally looked like and the one on the right is what I did to it. I pulled out my gelatos and started experimenting. I first used 2 different browns and it just didn't look right, so I added gold to the mixed and still I wasn't thrilled with the look. My next move was a bold one, I found my blueberry gelato and started to colour. The result is this gorgeous teal colour. 

The colours of the art work that stood out to me were the orange of the beak, aqua on the wings and the teal of one of the small birds. The other elements that stood out to me was the wood grain in the back ground and the triangles on the chest of the large bird.

I used all of these elements and turned them into the card below.


Products Used - Dylusions Paint (Vibrant Turquoise & Squeezed Orange), Faber-Castell Gelatos (Chocolate, Cinnamon, Gold Champagne & Blueberry), Faber-Castell Big Brush Pen (Cold Grey) Stampin' Up Ink (Smoky Slate), Stampin' Up Stamp (Hardwood), Stampin' Up Cardstock (Whisper White) Texture Paste, Mixed Media Paper, MME Cut &Paste Enamel Dots.

Happy Creating

21 comments:

  1. Wow I love the pop of colours on this card! The teal bird has turned out a treat chicky. I need to use my Gelatos lol.

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    1. Gelatos are so much fun I have been using them a bit lately, thank you for popping past x

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  2. Beautiful card Deena. Love what you did with the wooden humming bird. Thanks for playing along with us at ARTastic. :)

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    1. Thank you Wendy brown was just not going to cut it, he had to be beautiful lol

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  3. This is a gorgeous card, Deena. Love the texture paste on the background and your little wooden birdie looks fabulous. Thanks for joining in with us at ARTastic.

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    1. Thank you Deb, one of my favourite things is using texture paste and my stencils

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  4. So sweet and simple. I really like your interpretation of our art work on ARTastic this month.

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    1. Thank you for coming past and leaving a comment Jane really do appreciate it. I so glad that I found your blog, so loving the challenges

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  5. Love this little blue bird card! The colour splatter and subtle embossing in the background really highlights the little bird. Gorgeous!

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    1. Thank you Mandy, card making is really my first love when I create.

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  6. The bird is certainly the Star. The great thing with Scrapbooking , you can keep adding and adjusting until you are happy with the result. Your colour splatters and embossing give the feeling of movement and I love the enamel dots. Thank You for joining in at ARTastic
    Mary

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    1. Thank you Mary for your lovely comments about my card

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  7. I have to say, I LOOOOOVE how you take our ARTastic challenges & interpret them....this is such a fabulous, unique, clever twist on the art piece. LOVE every bit of it. And Gelatos [obv!] ROCK!!! Thanks for joining in.....& ummmm.....now you know why I LEFT GEELONG!!!! Bad enough up here, Sydney way!!!

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    1. I love the challenges Lizzy. Challenges always use to scare but with the ARTastic challenge they push me to create things that I never thought I ever would. Thank you for you comments, they mean a lot. Geelong is waaaay better than Sydney lol x

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  8. This is a very cute card Deena and I love the bird! Well done with your background work too. Thanks for playing along at ARTastic :)

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    1. Thank you Jo, the bird is what is is all about, I appreciate you coming past and leaving a comment

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  9. Great card, Deena. I love your use of texcture in the background.... textures pastes are fast becoming faves of mine! Your bird is fabulous and I love how you've introduced little extra pops of colour with your spatters and enamel dots.Thank you for joining in at ARTastic. Cheers, Di

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    1. Thank you Di, texture paste I cannot get enough of along with stencils I have a very huge addication.

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  10. This is a classic example of less is more :-). Such a gorgeous card and the colour of the bird is perfect. Love the textures you have used. We have very cold mornings here in WA too, BRRRR. This morning was 2 degrees. Thank you for joining in with us at ARTastic, I love seeing your takes on the challenges.

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  11. I love, love, love this card! Thanks for playing along with us at ARTastic!

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  12. A really sweet and lovely card :) Thank you for playing with our challenge at ARTastic :)

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