Not it?
Ha,
today, it IS IT…
I’m a guest designer for Gutter Girlz!!!
The announcement was already on their blog a few weeks ago,
and if you read that you already knew… but today it is officially!
I’m on their blog, photo and all!
And ofcourse I show what I made for their latest challenge!
THE PROMPT: Not It!!
THE SONG: Not the Doctor by Alanis Morissette
PRODUCT/TECHNIQUE: Stitches
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You can read all about how I felt about this challenge on the GG-blog
and there’s a short “about me” posted along with my photo – for those
who don’t know be by now 😉
But ofcourse I’ll show my take on the prompt on my blog too:
Here’s the original photo I used (yep, that’s me on a windy day on a Dutch
dike in 1986). Not a very good photo, but it fitted for what I had in mind.
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I edited the photo in
photoshop. I tried some
different filters and ended
up with one that gave the
bitumen of the dike a
“weathered look”.
(click photo to enlarge)
I used a picture of a real
pedestal as an example
to cut the shape and an
old marker to draw the
shadows. (It’s a black
marker but it hardly
writes anymore – it was
just perfect for this!
The title is written
with a golden marker.
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And here’s the layout.
I used a (basic grey) background paper that shows a sky with clouds,
but just vagely and it hardly shows on this picture anymore (you still
can see some clouds on the right of the pedestal)
I hand stitched the “swirls” and used markers for the journaling.
The blue “frame” is made with my new oil pastels. LOVE THEM!
And a detail
of the stitches.
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Do you want to have a change to be a guest designer at Gutter Girlz too?
Or do you want to win a gift certificate from TallyScrapper.com?
Then hop on over to the Gutter Girlz, and play along with the challenge!!!
(And if you aren’t playing along, it would be nice if you left me, and the
other girlz, some love overthere 😉 hint hint…)
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Tomorrow (Monday) the national exams start on all the highschools in
the Netherlands. My son hopes to graduate! He studied sooooo hard
and he still isn’t done yet. The exams take two weeks and I’m pretty sure
the upcoming weeks will be filled with nerves, books, study and stress…
(I’ll keep you posted!)
I’m sure he will get good grades but Nout (and his mum!) can certainly
use some support… Are you willing to send some good vibes our way?
Leave him a comment here on my blog. He sure can use it!
And to all the other teenagers taking the exams (and their mums & dads)
GOOD LUCK!!!
Je t’embrasse!