Sunday 13 October 2013

Castle Street - Inspired by Alison aka Butterfly for Paper Artsy


I hadn't intended to do a second challenge entry for Paper Artsy at all. Then last night it was a toss up between Bruce Forsyth and Alison aka Butterfly - no contest really! Although I did have a sneaky half hour with Sarah Millican! My craft room lured me back in for the evening as my favourite of Alison's three projects this week had been her incredibly imaginative, quirky, and downright mad Dollshouse Street. I love Alison's work and I think this is her best ever and I think we should see more of her mad side - let it out!




I really wanted to try Alison's technique of using the side of a piece of card and some Frescos to do the sky in horizontal strokes and the grass in vertical stokes. I was afraid in my hands it would look like a child's painting but it is surprisingly impressionistic. You have to be quite free and not think about it too much. I used a piece of mountboard where Alison had used a wooden piece from a child's toy. Alison had used the Doll range of stamps from Ink and the Dog but I only have one set so I decided to go with Lynne Perella, with the addition of the Mini Script 26 and Hot Pick 1009.


I started off by stamping all the Lynne Perella stamps I have in Coffee and Sepia Archival on white card stock and then desconstructed them. Alison had houses and I had castles!! So I fussy cut around turrets, and for the other shapes I used a mixture of dies - squares, arches, and a shield for a gherkin building! I also cut a set of Tim Holtz Pediments, some in plain white card, and some in shrink plastic for the smaller buildings, and stamped these with script. I then played around with placement of my pieces.

In addition to the free-style grasses I also stamped the grasses and birds from HP 1009 in brown and green although I don't think this was strictly necessary. I edged the whole piece in Sepia and then finished off with some Treasure Gold in Ice Fire.

19 comments:

  1. Oh Lucy this is gorgeous I love it!!!

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  2. Fabulous, did you chicken out on the scary doodling - lol

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  3. A fabulous piece Lucy, just love the take on Alison's one.
    hugs {brenda} x0x

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  4. Oh This is amazing and lovely pieces.

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  5. oooh I think this is one my favourite pieces of yours Lucy, its fab, Annette x

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  6. love the shapes you've used here - agree it hard to just go for it with the background - fun though xx

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  7. Absolutely love this, Lucy - your castles are gorgeous... must be a slightly more upmarket area! Love your addition of the grassy stamping to the card strokes, and the fact that I beat out Bruce Forsyth for your attention!! The wild side seems to have tucked itself away for now... but I should think it'll be out to play again soon. Thanks so much for another lovely entry this week!
    Alison xx

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  8. I think you made the right decision to ditch Brucie for a butterfly-inspired crafting session - this is gorgeous.

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  9. I could not agree more, I am such a fan of Alison.
    This is wonderful, the swipes of blue across the sky and I like the grasses.
    Wishes
    Lynne

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  10. Hi Lucy, Alison's work is amazing but I absolutely love what you have done, it is a truly wonderful creation! Hugs, Anne x

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  11. I love this Lucy! Lynne Perrella stamps go so well with the street idea! Also love your use of the pediments! Your sky and grasses look ab fab too - not a bit childlike - as you say Impressionistic rather than primitive! Great and inspirational interpretation of Alison's fun piece. Must go and check PA blog out now before I serve dinner! Julie Ann xx

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  12. Amazingly beautiful project Lucy Brucies loss is our gain !

    Marie

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  13. brilliant project, love all the details

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  14. well done, it looks great - I didn't try this project but think yours is just wonderful.

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  15. This looks fabulous, Lucy! Love the added grass! Hugs!

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  16. Wunderbar, eine tolle Arbeit, RESPEKT!
    Ich liebe diese Stempel...

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  17. Beautiful piece Lucy! Love the compositions and details. I see you were very inspired!

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  18. wow fantastic work, love it and the stamps are gorgeous

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  19. Love your take on Alison's inspiration Lucy
    Von ♥

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