Graphic 45 Design Team Call Audition 2013

It occurred to me today to try and use some of the "luck of the Irish" of St Patrick's Day to assist in today's application for Graphic 45's current design team call.  I seriously love the products made by this company and I think it shows in my work.  In this post I will highlight a six of my favorite projects, with lots of Graphic 45 products to be seen. 



The letterbox tray above is one of the top posts on my blog and I have also seen it many times on Pinterest.  Here I used one of my favorite papers, Old Curiosity Shoppe.   I think Steampunk Debutante is my next runner up and it is the focal on the next two projects. 



This large mosaic piece hangs in my dining room and I really love it.  It was so hard at the time to use up all those cool gears, but now I get to enjoy them in my art every day.

The book below is another great piece.  Here I finished off all of my paper left over from the project above.  Inside the envelope book are lots of great tags and inserts. 

I would have to say that assemblage is probably my favorite medium to work in.  This next project is a very fun Halloween Assemblage piece that also gets lots of traffic here.  My Steampunk Apothecary employs a very nice collection of different Graphic 45 papers.  I used the Kraft Reflections, Old Curiosity Shoppe and Halloween in Wonderland.  Amazing how seamlessly they all work together.



It was hard to choose between two different Birdsong projects I have recently done. 







Since I could not decide on which one, I ended up choosing to include them both. 





Thank you as always for tuning in.  I hope the luck of the Irish is with you today too!

Cheers,

Rhea



I'm Late!

This mixed media piece was made for a swap.  I had made my "Down the rabbit hole" assemblage with this swap as the inspiration, however, I ended up deciding to keep that piece because there were so many sentimental things inside it. You can read more about that piece here.

Since creating that first Alice piece, I stumbled upon a lovely blog called Altered Alice.  This month they are having a tea party challenge, which I incorporated into this piece.  For this challenge, I am also bringing some vintage linens to the party. 

I started with an old book cover.  It was then covered with a bit of floral paper by Tim Holtz, after all it is a garden tea party.  I edged the outside with tissue tap.  This is the best for covering up any mistakes in aligning your paper by the way.  A few spritz of glimmer mists added a bit of sheen to the background. 

I used an image I cut from a sheet of Graphics 45 paper, the lovely white rabbit who is running late for the tea party.  The mosaic pieces were made from two different types of fragments by Tim and Graphics 45 Halloween in Wonderland die cut tags.  The edges were coated with a silver leafing pen.  I played with layout a bit to determine a pleasing design and glued them down.  I wanted the party to be central, so I was sure to put this image in the middle. 

I am really loving this theme.  I think I may have a few more Alice inspired pieces in my future.