I am so excited to be the new hostess of the Saturday Inspiration Challenge at SplitCoast Stampers. I’d love to see links to your inspired creations, so I can check them out.
My first inspiration piece is a print by Charley Harper entitled Birch Bark & Birds. Several weeks ago, CBS Sunday Morning (the one show I make a conscious effort to watch every week) did a segment on Charley Harper’s new book (Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life) which was a collaboration with Todd Oldham. I completely "got" what Oldham saw in Harper’s amazing work (often described as minimal realism) and just couldn’t get enough of it.
I wanted to capture the same feel, colors and design as the art piece. I started by choosing scraps of cardstock (mostly Bazzill Bling) and cutting varying width strips. Next I began weaving the paper starting with the wider vertical strip and the long narrow blue horizontal strip. Then I just kept adding pieces weaving them together. I used Hermafix adhesive, so if a piece needed to go on top instead of under, I could just rub off the adhesive with my finger.
The bird is a DMD clear dollar stamp and the sentiment is a rub-on.
I hope you find inspiration too.
PS – I am so thrilled to be Paper Monkey’s Blog of the Week!
These are to cool. I might have to give it a try. If I do I will be sure to share with you. Thanks so much for sharing.
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Oh my gosh….you DID have a great mail week! Beautiful things….thanks for sharing them with us.
Fabulous interpretation!
This is fabulous! It looks like a piece of art that should be on display!
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!!! STEF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ok, see, now i wish i had saved the “SUPER STEF-o-LICIOUS” line!!! (i read blogs backwards; i know, i know, it’s just wrong!)
i also totally TOTALLY wish i had not been so danged wrapped up over the weekend, b/c i would’ve loved to make a charlie harper card! (well, i WILL, at some point…but it won’t be for the cool challenge…)
but YOUR charley card is AMAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYZING!!! if there *IS* a physical afterlife somewhere, charley harper is currently looking down upon you with a smile a mile wide, of that i am absolutely POSITIVE!!! (and i’ve got me one o’them smiles on, too!)
🙂 (SEE?!)
Your card turned out soooo COOL! I love it!