Thursday, 23 June 2011

Together

This is my contribution to the ongoing challenge at ARTastic. The challenge is to get inspired by the painting “Argenteuil” by Edouard Manet. I love this painting! The colors… the feeling of summer and calmness... To get some extra points you should have two people on the photo, use striped patterned papers and include a boat somewhere on the layout.
The picture is of my husband and our daughter playing at the beach. (You are able to see the face of my husband on the layout but unfortunately I couldn’t get it bright enough on this picture.) There are boats both on the picture and on one of the patterned papers.


The background is decorated with a mask and yellow glimmer mist (to create a feeling of sunshine and to pick up one of the colors in the painting). Below the picture I painted with beige Distress Stain to create a feeling of sand. Beside the picture I decorated with some awesome black rub-ons from K & Company and stamped some “grass” in copper.
I decorated with a lot of different striped patterned papers. These papers from Maja Design looks a bit like shirt fabrics – just like the dress on the painting! I used some different edge punches and you can see some of the Distress Stain underneath one of the punched papers. The beautiful vellum piece is from K & Company.
I decorated with some more papers from Maja Design in the corner and stamped two seagulls in black.

Thanks for looking!
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16 comments:

  1. li-bee-ti23 June 2011 at 15:09

    This is a stunning layout!!!
    Great colors, great masking and wonderful use of all the dp.
    I love the calm and peaceful feeling of this lo, and I so much enjoyed looking at your blog, so I've become a follower.
    Great work!

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  2. Maggie24 June 2011 at 01:32

    You have made a wonderful layout for the ARTastic challenge! This really oozes of summer. I love the misting and staining on the background paper. Thank you for playing along :)

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  3. RobinJ24 June 2011 at 04:14

    This is a beautiful LO, Helene! Love the picture, overall design and the great misting. The natural elements create a wonderful touch. Awesome job! Thanks for playing along at ARTastic!
    Hugs, RobinJ

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  4. Chantelle25 June 2011 at 05:28

    Great to hear you loved this inspiration - your LO is just lovely - great use of papers and the misting is beautiful - thanks for joining us at ARTastic.

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  5. Mel25 June 2011 at 17:00

    Helene, this is gorgeous, wow you certainly were inspired, I just love the gorgeous edging on top of each other, the misted piece, wow, you are a stunning scrapper my friend, and that photo is just awesome. Love to you Melx

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  6. Shazza26 June 2011 at 00:47

    Well done Helene!
    Love the edging you used across the page could be waves or shells! Your misting looks fantastic and all the other gorgeous embellies have pulled this together to make this piece really stunning.
    Great work!
    cheers
    shazza

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  7. Roxy26 June 2011 at 11:25

    This is just GORGEOUS!!! I think you captured everything from the painting PERFECTLY! I'm going to try entering this challenge, but I'm running out of time, and there's no way I can compete with your beautiful page!

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  8. Lynnda26 June 2011 at 17:38

    Helene, this is so so gorgeous...I just love the gorgeous edging on top of each other!!! Adore the misted piece!!! And that photo is just awesome. tHANK YOU SO MUCH for playing along with US over at ARTastic... hugs..xoxo

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  9. amanda7326 June 2011 at 20:52

    oh wow, this is gorgeous, loving everything here

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  10. Cecelia26 June 2011 at 22:11

    Hello there;0) I love your LO! Love the yellow mist and birds and the lace trim is beautiful. I think pictures taken at the beach always turn out lovely. I have a few of my kids and they are very nice. Thank you for joining us over at ARTastic!

    Hugs xx
    Cecelia B

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  11. Karen27 June 2011 at 01:53

    Love your take on the challenge, the gorgeous birds and different types of punched pieces. Thanks for playing along with us this month at ARTastic xxx

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  12. DebiJ27 June 2011 at 22:20

    Beautiful work Helene! Gorgeous colours together & lovely lacey textures, papers & embellishments. Really a beautiful page. Thank you for joining in with us at ARTastic!

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  13. Peggy30 June 2011 at 08:32

    Oh how pretty! There's something about this page that's instantly appealing! Gorgeous work! Thank you so much for playing with us over at ARTastic.
    xxx Peggy

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  14. JulieJ30 June 2011 at 16:02

    Those colours and your inking are just gorgeous

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  15. Maggie3 July 2011 at 14:33

    Gratulerer som vinner av min premie, Helene! Denne layouten oser av deilig sommer, synes jeg. Bruken av den gule misten minner om solskinn, og den beige Distress Stain minner om sand. Jeg liker at du maler og stempler på bakgrunnen. Du er meget kreativ!
    Premien din er pakket og klar, venter kun på din adresse, som jeg nok snart får fra Shazza. Jeg er glad du liker premien. Den består av slike ting jeg selv ville likt å få. I tillegg har jeg lagt ved tre av mine egne heklede blomster :)

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  16. li-bee-ti3 July 2011 at 16:27

    Congrats on your winning at ARTastic! Like I said before - this lo is really stunning!

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