Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Mixed Media Challenge - Buttons

This weeks challenge at Mixed Media Monday is to use buttons in your work. Well......I use buttons in almost every collage I make, so this was not a big challenge for me!  My good friend, Judy, said her favorite color was red, and I looked around at my collages and realized I had NO red! Warm colors are not what I gravitate to....but I do love orange. So I created a 5X5 with a bit of red. Here it is. Click on the image to enlarge.


I used 4 different kinds of hand made papers for the background. The pretty paper under the words JOY, is a bleeding tissue paper I just made. It has bits of pink, yellow, peach and white. Very pretty up close. Then I stamped a flourish with Titan Buff paint. I stamped the delphinium in black ink on a piece of pattern paper. I love that look! I used 2 Prima flowers with a button center and 2 other buttons in the left top corner. I stamped the letters for Joy on an ivory paper, edged them with sepia ink and glued them to the canvas.

10 comments:

  1. Such an wonderful card, love the delphinium, it looks great on the pattern paper.

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  2. This is gorgeous! I love the beautiful patterned papers and textures, and the stamping on the piece of pattern paper is genius!

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  3. very nice, i like the arrangement. you should work with red more often.

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  4. Beautiful button collages. You are very talented!

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  5. I love red too so of course I love your little collage :))

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  6. What a wonderful collection of images! You are so talented and should sell these on etsy.com!

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