Wednesday, 22 July 2009

KNOCK YOURSELF OFF!/AWFULLY BIG ART ADVENTURE

Thanks to my good cyber friend Rosie's blog - I found the GPP street team and was fascinated by the challenge they were setting: take an old piece of your work and re-do it.


I decided to take an old canvas I had done - which looked so boring - and revamp it. I added extra stamps - I cut out the trees because I wanted to add some Tim Holtz crackle paint to it - to give the tree trunks more texture. Some of the birds are stamped and some are cut out to give it a more 3D effect. Stamps are Tim Holtz, SU and Cherry Pie.

BEFORE

AFTER
The challenge over at Awfully Big Art Adventure is to do something with Birds so this fits the bill nicely.

19 comments:

  1. This is such a great piece - I love how you can see the journey before you, and its beautifully composed. Great work and thank you for taking part in our challenge.
    Love
    Rosie ABAA
    PS Would love the see the 'before' canvas to compare?

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  2. Very nice work Fiona; I love the new colour scheme and all the extra detail.
    Glad you joined in with us...
    Linda :-)
    ABAA

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  3. wow, what a diff! lovely and thanks for sharing. wanda

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  4. Bravo!! What a difference Fi... it's brilliant! Hope you love it now!! =)

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  5. Wow what a difference! You've worked wonders with it. Your moody coloured background works perfectly with the new detail now.
    It's lovely.
    Happy crafting Fiona!
    Gini
    xx

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  6. What wonderful embellishment on your origianl work- stunning effects! Lovely artpiece for this theme!

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  7. Fiona - thanks for coming to play on the street team! I love seeing this before and after - what a fabulous evolution!

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  8. This is great !!
    Rini the Netherlands for ABAA

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  9. Fiona you have knocked yourself off brilliantly - the result is just great. Love the idea of crackle paste for tree trunks btw.

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  10. Hi Fiona,
    This is a great one! I can tell you had fun re-vamping it, too. Thanks for showing us.

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  11. Way to go! You encourage me to revisit some of my plain work that could really stand to be amped up like you did here.

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  12. Fiona ~ I really like both the before and the after creations, such lovely colors and details in both!!!
    ~*~ Patty

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  13. WOW What a cool progression...I like it!

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  14. It's MUCH more interesting, now! Great work on this crusade!

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  15. wonderful! really like the trees on the re-do...very nice

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  16. the redo improved your canvas a lot !
    You're right : the first was is a bit boring, but what a difference how it turned out now !
    Great !
    greetings from Belgium
    Inge

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  17. what a fab canvas, the colours are lovely, Jaqi

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  18. LOVE the way you split the newer version into two color planes. Awesome work. Plus, I'm a sucker for birds.

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