WooHoo it is Tickle a Teapotter time of the month. Jan aka Heartsong47 aka de mama, has taken us for a beautiful walk down memory lane. We are going on a summer picnic!! There is something very special about juggling a plate of food, trying not to spill your drink and swatting flyÂ’s all at the same time....ahhh but we loved it. We spent half of our lives at the beach but dad absolutely refused to have a picnic on the sand so we always had our picnics in the bush by a lake or river.
Here we have Stevie and Norma enjoying a summer picnic by the lake. It looks like Norma has carefully co-coordinated their outfits by matching her floaty device to Stevie's sunhat. Truth be told the floaty was originally her hat. I made a slit in the lake and popped Norma's legs in the water but it looked like she was walking on the water so I quickly removed her hat and made it into a floaty. Job done!!
About the card - no prizes for guessing this was made using Distress Ink with the smack and squirt technique, using foam blending tools (rectangular foam pads). Smack distress ink pad onto aluminium foil then squirt on some water. Use the foam blending tool to mop up the inky water and apply to the card. Keep building up the colour - to make the colours more intense, allow a few minutes drying time between coats.
I like to use the TH rectangular foam blending pads, especially using the side edge to get an area marked out. I started this card by doing the lake first, then roughly made a mask to cover it while adding the green ink. A little bit of extra grass was added using pencils. I lightly used white and blue pencils to give the sense of movement in the lake. The trees and leaves were stamped after the background was bone dry, that way the colours don't soak into the background colours.
Stevie (he looked a bit like Stevie Wonder when I tried to draw his sunglasses), I digress, and Norma were mainly coloured with distress inks but I did use a Spectrum Noir pen around the edges.
Thank you for looking. It is great being back in Teapotterville, have a lovely week ladies.
Date: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 GMT Views: 4367
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Thu, Jul 07, 2016 @ 10:32 PM
SPEECHLESS, that is what I am in the presence of your work, my friend. So much here...don't even know where to start. I just sit and look and then refresh and sit and look again. Your work is the very best kind of HE{art} carefree play.
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Sun, Jul 10, 2016 @ 9:05 AM
LOL, your sentiment is fab!! And, of course, so is the whole card. I love their little watering hole and the fence. Hmm, I'm sure we didn't call them tubes here but I can't think what we did call them. My sister had one..she learned to swim much later than I did and still used hers long after I'd graduated even from armbands. I used to envy it .
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Sat, Jul 16, 2016 @ 6:40 AM
BWHAHAA!! This is absolutely the CUTEST thang!! Love your little scene here with the fence and special details!! You are a hoot and I love your stories!! TFS!!
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