Love the look of the brick wall. Thanks for the challenge Toy!.......details....
Got home earlier then usual due to the rain and wind we are having. I had to wear full rain gear. Boy does that make going to the bathroom a real chore. So many extra things to remove and when they are wet, well you get the picture. So when I got home I stamped my sunflowers from Rubbernecker Stamps clear eb them. Colored with prisma pencils and gamsol.
Let's back up a moment, before coloring the flowers I stamped them again a little off to the left with antique linen. Then colored them.
I wanted my brick wall to look like a building, so I put a sidewalk at the bottom with dirt on the other side where I put my planter with sunflowers.
Drew light lines for the bricks so I'd know where to cut. In fact the lines were so light I screwed up a little in the cutting. SO don't look tooooo close. After cutting them I sponged the edges with aged mahogany.
Took a black cs panel and proceeded to "mortar" my bricks down on top of the cs. When done, I made the planter by cutting the shape out, scoring the top edge then sponging the color on. Popped this up.
Needed something a little more. What do sunflowers attract?......BIRDS. So I stamped my bird, colored with Faber Castell Markers, cut out and popped up.
Well, I have to go hook up the pump. The underground one isn't keeping up with the rain puddle and it has started to go in the pool. Yikes! Will return later........TFL :0)
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Date: Monday, January 18, 2010 GMT Views: 589
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Registered: September 12, 2007 Location: Wake Forest, NC Posts: 61357
Mon, Jan 18, 2010 @ 7:34 PM
Another brick in the wall, I see. I have that image, too, but until now I never realized what I could do with it. You've given me such inspiration. Love the brick wall technique, russian spy. Fabulous card, my friend.
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Tue, Jan 19, 2010 @ 12:01 AM
. My first attempt with my vines on the wall, I marked my bricks wrong too. I think I made three rows the same instead of staggered - and with my chalking, I couldn't erase the lines without erasing the chalk - ack!! The Antique Linen makes great shadows for those glorious sunflowers. They attract birds for you - they attract bees for me. The time I left them in the garden for birds to peck the seeds - well, I never saw one bird.
I remembered to drop a card in the post to Connie yesterday...