Wednesday 24 February 2010

Queen of the Screen - But no crown.......

Have had a small break from card making for a couple of days and caught up with other things (not housework...lol).

The next challenge at the Art'n Soul flickr group was to alter a jigsaw piece using monochrome colours. Although the closing date for this challenge isn't until 3rd April, I thought I'd better get this done whilst I had the chance otherwise as usual I shall be dashing about at the last minute!

The jigsaw piece measures 5" x 3" and was sent to me by Maureen some time ago. Poor old Thomas the Tank Engine was unceremoniously ripped off the front and I painted the piece with white acrylic paint to get rid of the grey card back and sides. On reflection I could have left these cos the theme was monochrcome..... doh!

I covered the front with random alphabet paper ( have no idea where this came from... found 2 sheets of it at the back of a drawer!). Used black and silver embossing powder on the edges and stamped the Paperartsy image onto white card with black stazon. I mounted the image and words onto silver mirri card and glued in place. The camera and film strip are a black and white photocopy of K and Co scrapbook paper suitably reduced in size to fit the piece and I finished with a silver star and heart. I then took what I thought was a metal crown charm from my stash - it was curved and wouldn't sit flat so I decided to flatten it............. this was NOT a good idea as the charm was plastic and promptly shattered into about a million tiny pieces when I pressed down on it with the edge of the hammer........................ so my 'Queen of the Screen' is currently crownless until I can get some flat crowns!
Despite the monochrome theme, I couldn't resist giving her a teeny touch of red lipstick!
Creative Inspirations is predominantly a card site but does permit other projects to be submitted for challenges. Their theme this week is also Monochrome so have linked this and Fab n Funky's challenge is black and white and fotunately for me so was Little Red Wagon's!

17 comments:

froebelsternchen said...

great design!

Jan said...

This is lovely Viv... great subject and beautifully done x

Unknown said...

Fab Piece Viv and as usual your taste in music perfect LOL

Anonymous said...

Spectacular!

Avril Tanner said...

Oh... I totally love it! Thanks for playing aloong with LRW!

andrea said...

stunning project,thankyou for joining us at fab'n'funky this week
andrea

Ginny said...

gorgeous, thanks for joining us at FnF :)

Joanne said...

I LOVE this! Thanks so much for joining us at LRW:)
Joanne xo

Rosanne said...

Beautiful! Thanks for joining in at Little Red Wagon!

Carolyn Wolff said...

This is amazing.

Aunty Sue said...

Hi oh this is great thanks for joining us this week at creative inspirations.

Pattie said...

This is fabulous Viv,i must get my book finished so i can join in,you have inspired me lol x

Janiel/ janny said...

This is amazing!!! Beautiful shape and monochromes!!
Thank you for joining us this week at Creative Inspirations.
hugs, Janiel

Anne said...

Great altered piece and she needed colour for her lips, didn't she?

John Dyhouse said...

This is really impressive Viv. April 3rd eh? maybe i should have a go at this one?

Peri said...

Absolutely love this Viv - really creative.

♥ Lydia ♥ said...

Brilliant! Great detail...Thanks for joining us at Fab'n'Funky this week x