Odds and Ends

Hello all, Alison here with the last of my regular Tuesday spots here at Artistic Outpost.  I'll still be around, so watch out for the announcements about the new arrangements.

But I thought I'd share one of my all-time favourite AO makes for this post... a hanging created out of bits and bobs and odds and ends - leftovers that were hanging around on my craft table, and came together as though they were meant to be!

If you'd like to know more about what they were left over from, check out this post at Words and Pictures, but for now, here are some close-ups...

Cocoa Boy himself is, of course, from the Think and Wonder plate (my desert island AO stamp plate, no question about it!).  He's stamped in Potting Soil Archival on some stony paper from Kaisercraft, and spattered with white paint.

The honeycomb frameworks are either cut from Tim Holtz Wallflower papers, or from a tag on which I'd used the Wendy Vecchi Crackle Paste.

It's all layered up with some more scraps of Wallflower paper for lots of dimension, over a corrugated cardboard base.

The butterflies are cut from old book pages and inked with Distress Inks.

They're perching on some of the Frameworks innards.  One final shot - to give you a sense of those butterflies about to take off...

Thanks so much for stopping by... and I'll be along soon with some more Artistic Outpost projects to share with you.

Designer: Alison Bomber

Words and Pictures