Wednesday 14 September 2011

Playmates

I fell in love with these papers from Authentique when I saw them in a sneak peek in July. I thought they looked just like old scarves… and I love old “aunt scarves”! I finally got hold of them and thought the “scarves theme” and the colors were perfect for this picture of our daughter playing and dressing up with her friend. I also thought that all this was perfect for the September Challenge over at Scrap the Girls.
The challenge is to use clips on the layout. I think any clips would go with the theme of this layout but these who look like clothes hangers from Tim Holtz are extra suitable!

I wanted the papers to look like different scarves hanging behind the picture. To get them the way I wanted I first draw them by hand on a white cardstock, then transferred them onto transparent paper and finally onto the patterned papers. I choose to cut them in layers as paper piecing to get some structure.
The background is colored with Aridondack Color Washes (thanks Leonie for the inspiration – I bought some straight away!) and acrylic paint.



The clothes hangers (clips) and some beautiful buttons are hanging on a thick, colored thread underneath the picture.

Thank you SO much for looking!!!

5 comments:

  1. Oh wow!!! This is amazing! There are so many cool things to look at here! This is one awesome layout!!!

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  2. Vilken härligt busig layout! =) Passar jättebra till bilderna! Jättefint med de oregelbundna mönsterpapprena och gemen & knapparna som hänger/sitter fast på tråden!

    Va gullig du är - tack så mycket för tipset om den genomskinliga plasten hos PH! Ska kolla upp det.

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  3. love the way you use colour ..... so much love goes into your work I can tell ... awesome ... hugz x

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  4. This is wonderful Helene. Fab idea to recreate the scarves, they look
    Great and I love the little clothes line with the coat hangers
    Totally ties in with your whole theme. Glad you like the colour washes
    They're great aren't they such vibrant colours. Cheers & have a nice weekend.

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  5. Ohhh wow, love what you've done with the pp to create the scarves...simply brilliant! Cute clips too! :)

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