On my way to the exit of my local Tesco store, there is a charity book table, where you can take a book for a donation of 50p. This little book "A Field Guide To The Mushrooms & Toadstools of Britain & Europe". It's a fab little book, with lots of great images, which I thought I could use for collage and my Artist Trading Cards (ATC).
I cut a picture of fungi from the book and glued it into position on a Brusho background, cut to ATC size. I used the Lavinia Stamps "Pibbles" stencil with Versafine Clair "Green Oasis" ink. I then drew round some of the pebble shapes with a black fine liner. while the pen was out, I also added line detail to the fungi.
I then added some white dots of Posca Pen in between the pebbles, circling them in a red fine liner pen. I then added some small red dots to the background too, along with a line of scratch marks round the top left edge of the ATC.
I added a small snail to the bottoms of the ATC, stamped in Versafine Clair "Fallen Leaves" brown ink, with touches of a gold gel pen. The snail is part of a Tracy Evasns stamp set called "Love Grows Here - TE65". Finally, I added a Tim Holtz "Idea-ology" word sticker saying "treasure".
That is a lovely idea to buy an old book of Fungi to use as bits of collage and this group of them look great with your added black pen detail Sam, and the green stencilled pebbles in the background with some accentuated by circling with black pen, and some white circled with red, and also red dots interspersed adds lots of fun detail. I love that cute brown snail at the bottom too, grounded with some added line detail, and a lovely word sticker to finish. x
ReplyDeleteThanks Pat. It's nice to be able to cut pages of books that more likely or not would end up in land fill x
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