Wednesday 5 May 2010

Kraft Challenge - Gingersnap Creations Blog

Over on Gingersnap Creations Blog they have a number of challenges for May and I thought I would try to participate in a few - I got very behind generally last month as due to my poor IT skills it took me ages to upload my tutorials, so I am hoping to get a bit more done this month.

The colour theme for the month is Kraft, which I guess we call Manila? I had this slide mailer which intead of being the normal dull grey chipboard, was a lovely buff colour. It felt strange though, not to add paper, paint, and colour, so I restrained myself!

Here goes:-




I love the Venezia set from Oxford Impressions, so I started off by stamping the whole mailer inside and out with the Italian script in Sepia. I then stamped the map and the St Mark's Basilica on glossy card, again with Sepia, and tore around them. I crumpled and folded the map up a bit and tore it into pieces, and then adhered these to the front of the mailer, to disguise the words, 'This is a slide mailer' which were printed across it! I decorated the rest of the mailer with different images from the set in black, including the mask on the back cover. I prepared two image-transferred Crafty Individuals' Venice images and adhered them to the reverse of the microscope slide glass. I pushed them together to stamp the word Venezia across them, then finally adhered them into position in the mailer. These images met my need for some colour!

11 comments:

  1. Lucy, this is SO cool! I really love the color you added with the transfers, and of course you totally rocked the Kraft Challenge here! Thanks for playing along with us at Gingersnaps. I'm looking forward to seeing more of your great art!

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  2. Another perfectly decorated slide mailer Lucy! Those stamps and images are gorgeous! xx

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  3. beautiful work on the challenge Lucy! :)
    Thank you also for the kind comments on my blog...I am enjoying my son being near again! :)

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  4. outstanding interpretation of the challenge!

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  5. Lovely slide mailer Lucy, the contrast of the coloured image with the kraft base looks great!

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  6. A wonderful theme. And the combination of Kraft and the colour of the images is just awesome!

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  7. Like the way in which you have coloured the slides in this mailer !

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  8. I love this!!! Such a creative way to use the stamp set.

    Blessings,
    Christine

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  9. Just this minute uploaded to the Botanical challenge - great minds and all that!! About time I uploaded as made last week. So good to see you participating in one of their challengs, hope this is the first of many Lucy. Lynne x

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  10. how fun Lucy! great job on the challenge!

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  11. Great addition to the Kraft challenge!! I love your composition!

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