Happy 4th of July to all of you who celebrate it.
We're pigging out later today on hot dogs, potato salad, cucumber salad and strawberry cheese cake for dessert.
Then watching fireworks after dark.
This week's challenge for me was to combine spectacles, sewing and something based on a book.
Spectacles made me think of Heidegger's Glasses by Thaisa Frank.
It's what I call Fantasy Fiction set in a real historical time.
You can read a thoughtful review of it HERE.
And the author's own thoughts HERE
I began with a 4x6 card that I'd previously painted black with acrylic paint.
With Versamark ink, I stamped the cross stitches at top and bottom, then heat embossed them with silver ep.
I stamped numbers on each long side and heat embossed them as well.
Next, using white card I cut the dies for the Star of David and the man's face and clothes.
I colored the glass lenses and the Star with gold Wink of Stella liquid glitter.
I drew stitching on the Star with a black Posca paint pen.
Then I used the Star to position stamping the zipper teeth and the pen nibs, which I also heat embossed.
Here's a close up of the pen nibs.
I adhered the Star and the face/clothes die cuts with glue, then started creating my journaling.
On 2 scraps of white card, I laid down a rough black space on each with a Promarker and then with silver and gold Posca paints pens I hand wrote the title and author to adhere to my piece.
Beside the Star, I added a by-line type very brief description in my own hand.
And done!
Now I have a page to remember this book by.
I thank you for the visit today and hope you are enjoying your week!
XOX
CHALLENGE LINK UPS:
I made this for me, for my 4X6 art journal
I'm a fan of black and white with metallic accents (silver and gold here).
It's very appropriate for the subject matter of my art journaling.
Reading is one of my hobbies!
I used dies for the man's face and clothes and Star of David.
The eyeglass lenses and the Star of David are colored with Wind of Stella liquid glitter.
Black and white pirate flag!
There be some GOLD and SILVER under it YARrrr!
😉😎😊
24 comments:
Such a lovely card! Beautifully crafted!
A very nice card, I like your choice of colors.
You found all the things you needed to find with the book and the stitching. It was great how you wove everything together into a cohesive journal page. Thanks for sharing this with us at Art Journal Journey using Halle's theme. I hope you had a lovely 4th.
So creative, with wonderful story telling Aimes. Hope you enjoyed yourselves last night? x
I liked that book (thank you for the recommendation), and I can see why you put all those images together. And there were so many things that stitched together in that story-I think you included them all on your piece. I like how this is a different take on sewing for Halle's challenge. Thanks for joining in. And I hope you didn't pig out too much either. hugs-Erika
A great project in classic colours. Thanks for joining AYLI challenge. Elaine
This is such a striking page! Love it!
embossing card is always great no matter what! THank you for sharing your creation with us at C4Galz
How clever to make a piece that fulfilled so many challenges. Nicely done!
Awesome collection of items!!
I love this Aimeslee, although I don't know the book! Love the stitching. Thanks for sharing at AJJ and Halle's theme, hugs, Chrisx
What a really fun and creative design here! Love your fun details you've added with the paint posca pen! Super fun!
The combination of black acrylic paint with silver embossing and the detailed heat-embossed elements like the cross stitches, numbers, and zipper teeth, creates a striking contrast. The gold Wink of Stella on the Star of David and the man's face adds a touch of elegance, while your hand-written title and by-line give it a personal and artistic flair. The overall design beautifully captures the essence of your journaling theme.
Super postcard Aimeslee.
Hope you are keeping well.x
p.s. sorry for the late comment, had to go away for a few days due to a family illness.
Wow! Now how did I miss this? What a great way to remember books or even places/things you've done. Thank you for the inspiration my friend.
Good Job! Fits perfectly with the Art Journal Theme! Very creative! Yes, the Nazi's stitched everything in threads of lies!
What a fabulous collection of images - loving the hat, glasses, pipe and bow tie in particular. Thank you for joining us at The Alphabet Challenge xx Lynda/Loopyloo
What a page from/for your book! Sorry I haven’t read it but the collage of elements depicted makes it sound interesting.
I love the metallic on black. It's very striking. Thanks for joining my theme at Cardz4galz. Love Dawn x
I would have been hard pressed to create something for the challenge using spectacles, sewing & something based on a book. You DID it! Great card.
So glad you joined us at Die Cut Divas for our glitter challenge.
Super:)Thanks for playing with us at The Creative Crafters:)Ines DT
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Love your chosen flag colors. Very creative! Thanks for sharing at Colorful options.
Your 4th July menu sounds delicious am sure you all had a ball. fantastic card lots of lovely and interesting details on this beauty.Thank you so much for playing along with us at Colorful Options.
Marie
Lovely card. Thank you for sharing with us at Aud Sentiments.
Mary
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