Crusade 45 was very time consuming for me, but well worth the work. Michelle Ward knows what she's doing!! This month's GPP Street Team challenge was to copy an existing background a few times and work them up differently.
I took my scraped Ward Boards from C44 and copied them onto decent weight paper. These sat around for awhile buried under a bunch of Halloween stuff. So while cleaning up some googley-eyes that the small man and I were glueing onto pipe-cleaner spiders (yes, this is my real life)...two of them plopped out onto one of the copies and suddenly the forms became faces to me.
So I worked at one of the copies exploring these characters and then re-arranged my earlier painted boards and did a couple more blobular folk. They're a funky hybrid between aliens and snowmen.
For the second copy I dug out the masks from scraping C44 and sewed them onto the blank portion of the edge in a loopy fashion. Then I did my typical freestyle detailing that I never get sick of while listening to this podcast.
What I came away with from this exercise is that it's not a bad idea to make a copy of something just to work out a prototype of what you want to do on the "real" one. It totally added an extra layer of freedom to the journaling because there was really no worry about ruining it as well as giving me a practice run before committing something to my chip board pages.
So thanks once again Michelle -- how cool are you?
TJ - wow! Great finishing touches on your scrapings! Love that you felt free to try different things - exactly the lesson I hoped you would learn from this crusade. Fun stitching! Terrific story about the googley eyes falling into place. Thanks for sharing with the team!!
Posted by: michelle ward | October 29, 2010 at 11:06 PM
Cool !!
Such great scrapping and stitching you have together.
Posted by: Lay Hoon | October 30, 2010 at 12:32 AM
Nice pages! Love the googling eyes and the stitching. I also loved your tale about the vinegar and finding out that you are famous! LOL! Very funny!
Posted by: Kari | October 30, 2010 at 03:27 AM
Love your pages, they look so professional.
Posted by: Helen | October 30, 2010 at 12:43 PM
I love your bottom piece. It has an otherworldly feel to it that is intriguing. Glad to see you are having fun!
Posted by: Anne | October 30, 2010 at 01:04 PM
Wonderful marriage of scraps and stitching! Thanks for stopping by my Blog. I appreciated your feedback. Michelle's crusades are awesome! Best to you - Marilyn
Posted by: Marilyn Rock | October 30, 2010 at 02:30 PM
I love visiting your work. It is just so much fun.
Posted by: Rosemary Griffin | November 01, 2010 at 07:25 AM
i love the stitching. I wish I could do more of that but not havign a sewing machine seems to go against my intentions hehe.
Posted by: Mona | November 01, 2010 at 09:44 PM
WOW love the little blobular men! And the stitching.
Posted by: Debra | November 02, 2010 at 07:34 AM
Thanks for all the great comments on this crusade, it sure made for a halloween full of smiles...!
Posted by: TJ | November 02, 2010 at 09:38 AM
It worked really well.
Posted by: Julie Stenning | November 11, 2010 at 04:13 PM