GPP No. 46 – What’s your hang up?

Another scary challenge over at GPP’s Street Team Crusade – this month is asking “What’s your hang up?” and Michelle wants us to display our artwork on our walls and in our homes – right where people can see it!?!?!? Can you believe it? Is there no end to the boundaries Michelle will continue to challenge us with? LOL!

So rather than find a piece of work I wanted to hang, I thought I’d approach it the other way around and find a frame that I could then make something to fit it. As luck would have it, I was at the local church garage sale (aka yard sale or jumble sale) and I found not one, but FIVE cute little frames.

I cut out five pieces of card that would fit the frames and covered each one with a different map.

Then gesso’d over them to homogenise them.

Then I had to decide what to do with them. I considered making a word (with a letter in each frame) or doing a painting on each one (inspired by some work I had seen on Etsy recently), then decided to use some stamps to add bold, black images on each of them.

Stamps: Pear & Dragonfly by Collections, M by Stampers Anonymous, Butterfly by Stampington & co, Girls by All Night Media

Now they needed some colour (but not too much) so I got out my giant set of Faber-Castell pencils (don’t they look fantastic ~ I think I spend more time looking at them than using them! There is a third tray, below the lower tray).

I was happy with the results but has to adjust them a bit as the frame surround was quite thick and hid some of the images. Then they went into the frames.

I did note that taking photos of frames with glass is a little tricker, trying not to get the light reflection in the shot. Now they are ready to display on the bookshelf.

Thanks to Michelle for another challenging crusade. I may even try a real size piece of artwork before the month ends!

Happy crusading,
Michelle