Wednesday 18 February 2009

Oriental Dreams Part 2


As if the weekly challenge and the monthly art doll swap wasn't enough to keep us all occupied Margaret thought we should do another challenge. Both Margaret and I wanted to do something altered but the problem is the group is international and postage and packing might be a difficult (and expensive) problem for large or bulky or fragile items.
I was the host for the first 'Altered Swap' and I chose to challenge everyone on the group to alter a CD. I selected the theme of Oriental and here is my completed CD.
I love this sparkly hand made backing paper. I think the colour is striking and set this as the base for my colour scheme. I stamped and embossed the images in silver onto blue vellum which I then mounted on thin card to give them a bit more body. Holes drilled in the top and the bottom for the fibres and I also stamped and embossed a flower image onto the back of the sparkly paper (the plain side) and hung this from the bottom fibres. The ric rac braid and the 'dream' chipboard sticker carried on the colour scheme. I added a glass flower to the bottom (unfortunately this hasn't shown up too well on the photo!) and some fibres round the outside edge of the CD. I enjoyed doing this so may make another one as the closing date for entries isn't for another 3 weeks!
The theme of Altered CD's is also the challenge on Saturday Workout.

14 comments:

Janet said...

wow this is stunning!!

Pattie said...

Amazing Viv !I love the colour,very dreamy,VERY oriental.....xx

Anne said...

Ooh this colour is lovely, yet more lovely eye candy!
Thanks for sharing Viv

Deby said...

Beautiful! You inspire me....

Debbi Baker said...

Hi Viv - I haven't been around much lately so just catching up on everything yuou have been doing and it is all wonderful!!

Debby said...

I knew there had to be a reason I was saving all my cd's. This is gorgeous! Several of these would look great on a Holiday tree.

Anonymous said...

Beautiful CD

Sandy said...

OMG this is absolutely stunning.
Fantastic colors and design.

Thanks Viv for alter a CD on SaWo.

Unknown said...

hello matey....this is so lovely and what a fabby color....lvs xx

Heather Robinson said...

There is such a lovely elegance to this altered CD Viv! Gorgeous details too!

Tam Hess said...

Really great design. Thanks for sharing.
xo
Tam Hess

SaLi said...

love this unusual color for asia, great work!!!

Gwen (Minimaker) said...

Love your Blog Viv, and everything in it, thanks for sharing with me.x

Janny said...

Beautiful, great colour!