It all started with your MIX challenge, Polly! To make a background and use bubble wrap for visual interest. Well, sleeping on it brought lots of ideas this morning. I quickly got the Hero Arts paint splatter bg stamp loaded with the TH oxides. Transferred to wc. Sprayed with water and used the bubble wrap. It mostly shows in the blue~ish layer.
Once the paper was dry, I inked the Technique Junkies butterfly shiloutte stamp with Brilliance ink and then embossed in clear. I tore the left edge as it was so rough and random how the ink puddled.
It took awhile to choose the sentiment. But I kept going to the small butterflies and well...one thing brought another! Yesterday I stopped by one of our local thrifts to check out the craft area. I can across a whole basket of vintage metal zippers. Confession: I came home with 9! But it was this Chartreuse trim line zipper (words from the package), that I knew belonged with my beautiful young woman. And it makes a different media for the MIX. The Sizzix TH butterfly is brand new. I cut it from part of the original panel.
As I was arranging the panels...I knew the butterfly would emerge from the woman...and the zipper. I added a bit of vintage German scrap down the right sides.
And the best...in our family room we have a solar tube with a diffuser that throws rainbows on sunny days. I couldn't believe when I prepared this for photographing it would be right there in the picture beginning at the top and continuing through my sky and onto the bottom...thanks Jeanne for challenging us to make Sunny Skies. And of course, Barbara for your color challenge. I used the closest three colors in my studio. Thanks everyone!
I can't wait to see the creativity in the galleries this week.
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Tue, Jun 18, 2019 @ 2:43 AM
Susan, you are amazing! What a gorgeous sky and cool use of the bubble wrap. But that zipper! I love the color. What a find! And to have the butterfly emerging from it is pure genius!