Jean is our hostess for Tickle a Teapotter this month - her challenge is HERE. What an amazing and versatile artist. I loved all the decorative relief work on her house, and I thought that was the way I was going to go, or the interior scene. But in the end I used a picture that I found on the Kohler Foundation website (which had so few it wasn't worth linking). I'll add it in the challenge thread.
I have to say that while I know this won't be everybody's cup of tea, I love it and if it weren't Teapot Tuesday, or if I'd had more time to make something else, it would go straight into my "keeper" box. I hope whoever it goes to likes it even half as much as I do.
I had a very minor gel-printing session last weekend to provide me with some prints to use. One on deli paper makes up the sky. The stormy sea was another page (book page = recycled), cut into irregular strips. Some are edged with a gold pen, some (hangover from Toni's Snip & Cut WT last week) are edged with little strips cut from the margin of another print with scalloped and deckle edged scissors. I also added some smudges of gelatos for a little extra colour.
My boats (and stars) are cut from a tomato paste tube = more recylcing. The boat interiors were just cut from colourful scraps in my background box. I edged the piece with chunky gold EP. I stamped and embossed the sentiment in gold but it didn't show enough except in a certain light, so I stamped over it in black and am happy with how it looked. I did tuck the two little fishies from We'll Walrus Be Friends into the waves for a touch of whimsy.
Thanks, Jean. Maybe I'll even carve out time to make another card and keep this one - but I have to do my first big supermarket shop since Dec 15 tomorrow, so time isn't on my side.
Oh - and there's white paint stippled through some drywall mesh tape to brighten the sky up a little.
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Tue, Jan 26, 2021 @ 9:13 AM
Well, Sabrina, I for one love it! The little geometric boats are so happy & bright even though they are being tumbled on those troubled looking waters. 3rd scroll up I caught the tiny fishes which I originally missed . . . and what a wonderful sentiment. The hits of gold are fabulous both visually & for texture.
I do understand your musings about "not being everyone's cup of tea" - it's my feeling about Steampunk, too, - so fun to create but then who to send it to that would appreciate or understand . . . so for me too, The 4th Teapot Tuesday each month let's me feel I can go more crazy in hopes a fellow crafter "gets it"
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Tue, Jan 26, 2021 @ 9:37 AM
I love it....thanks for your description...I went back and forth as you explained each section. I love the ocean part with those strips,,,some edged in gold and the cute little boasts...they look like little 3 corner hats. Wonderful and very artistic....Good luck with your big shopping.
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Tue, Jan 26, 2021 @ 10:01 AM
I think I recognized which piece of Mary's art inspired this beauty and this is a fantastic interpretation of that. Love, love, love everything you created here. Those little fish made me smile. And, the sentiment is a motto to live by. Gorgeous card -- I can see why you want to keep this one.
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Tue, Jan 26, 2021 @ 11:26 PM
Ooh, Sabrina, this is fabulous!! So many amazing details to enjoy, the colourful boats look terrific on the strips of gel printing and I love the dry wall tape with the white paint. You know I also love how you edge your cards, too! There is a spot here in my craft room for this, ha!
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Wed, Jan 27, 2021 @ 2:14 AM
Oh be still my beating heart. I love it too and now wish I was playing. There's so many fantastic cards for this month's Tickle. Your ocean reminds me of stained glass and ooh those boats. Love it all. So much yumminess to look at. I can imagine why you don't want to part with it. TFS Happy day
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Wed, Jan 27, 2021 @ 11:56 AM
What they said (points up). I love how the tiny boats look cheerful and confident even though they look to be going through some stormy seas, as if turning your sentiment into their motto.