Saturday, 17 May 2008

Bitten By the Challenge Bug

I’ve been wanting to alter the cover of my travel journal from my trip last year to China for a while now and this week's challenge of Travel/Places from Arty Girlz gave me the inspiration to finally do it. So here is my go at the challenge:


The background uses a black and white photocopy of a map of China that I have coloured in using the same technique as the background for the flower card but then highlighted areas with watercolour pencils. The main highlights being the actual journey we took from Beijing to Xi’an to ZhengZhou and back to Beijing. I then stamped a dragon onto acetate with stazon and coloured the dragon with cosmic shimmer mixed into three dimensional glue. The letters were all cut out by hand and ‘China’ has been accentuated with three dimensional glue. It was great fun doing this AND I've ticked off one of my jobs from my 'To Do' list :)

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9 comments:

  1. Femmy18 May 2008 at 15:25

    beautiful work! love it!!!

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  2. Ying Pang,18 May 2008 at 17:06

    beautiful and special.

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  3. Crissi Harvey18 May 2008 at 17:12

    fantastic work love the journal cover sound like a fab trip.

    Thanks for joining in with the Arty Girlz challenge.

    crissi xx

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  4. Sandy18 May 2008 at 19:57

    Wow this is absolutely stunning. Fantastic creation.

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  5. Kath Stewart18 May 2008 at 22:36

    This is fabulous and what a wonderful memory of your trip

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  6. Anonymous19 May 2008 at 15:51

    really an amazing piece of art!

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  7. Lauren20 May 2008 at 09:10

    I love it Well Done!!

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  8. Julie Allain21 May 2008 at 16:37

    WOW This is totally Fab!!!

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  9. Cuchy13 August 2008 at 15:25

    What a work in colouring! Thanks for sharing your background technique. I'll give it a go. M. Carmen

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