

This page's theme was "Jeweled House".
Several years ago, I hand painted and stamped some calico and have had it sitting around waiting for a good reason to use it...and this is the reason!
For the houses I used Collection's chipboard house frames,covered in "Textiva" (fusible film). The two larger rooves are cut from cardboard. The front one is covered with dot stickers and the back page one is done with re-enforcing rings,then I coated them with Bronze Lumiere and rubbed over with Walnut Distress Ink, and the small one has gold star stickers, treated the same way, as I ran out of the dots and rings.
I then added the diamantes to them all.
I used various images of children,two of which are from "Collections", and added a piece of mica to the large front and back houses and wire mesh to the smaller one.Then a squiggle of green Kindy Glitz on the sides of the houses and more diamantes embedded into them with some larger flower embellishments to finish them off.
Then I added the Kaiser Rub-ons to the sides of the front houses to balance the layout.
The image in the house on the back is of a little girl with her dolly's pram and a bit of "serendipity" happened here... I didn't realise until after I finished the page entirely and was checking it out for faults (which I am sure to have made) that the application of the gold painted scrolls and flourishes actually make the dolly's pram look 3D!
I left the threads long and dangling when I ran some machine stitching around the edges and threaded some beads onto them to add more texture to the whole page.
14 comments:
Hi Barb, I love your artwork! Wonderful pieces on your blog!! :o)
Great work, Barb!
Thanx for your comments Ladies...much appreciated.
wow, (I've been blog hopping and found you, just had to say I love your wonderful art work!
((Lyn))
Thanx Lyn... nice of you to leave your comment.
Absolutely stunning,such attention to deatail makes these pieces fascinating to look at. I love them.
Sandie
Spyder....I LOVE that name...vbg..andSandy, thanx for stopping by and leaving such nice comments...much appreciated.
Ohhh....these are fantabulous!! Terrific work Barb! Sooo glad to be back and visiting such a wonderful blog!! :-)
Oh, these are as lovely as can be! What you can do with fabric just amazes me!
I am way behind on blogging and just starting to catch up but I just wanted to pop in and leave a big gushy thank you for your kind thoughts and caring words! I'll be back soon to get really caught up!
marsha
Sandie said ""Absolutely stunning,such attention to deatail makes these pieces fascinating to look at. I love them.""
And hey I got the original artwork in my art room as the lovely Barb made it for me and yes it is fascinating to look at and feel and all that.......... I love it to bits and it will probably be the front page of the book we are doing. Mine will probably grace the back page LOL.....
Absolutely stunning job! Love them.
Kathy,Marsha,Glenda and Susie...thank you all for your nice comeents on my work....gives me impetous to go and do some more...vbg
Is it possible to drool over inedible objects? These pages are wonderful Barb! Um....I think I'm the person who is supposed to get them!! LOL!!! Beautiful work Barb!! What a blessing to know you, my very talented friend!!
Kathy... could you be a little biased??.. but thanx for taking the time and leaving such nice comments.
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