This one was obvious- our inspiration art for the ARTastic challenge this month was a tiger! So I absolutely had to do a layout about my Tiger. The painting is by Anna Collins and its called Top Hat Tiger.
The criteria was black and white plus one colour. I chose peach as my colour.
I started with my background. I didn’t have any black and white paper that I really wanted to use and I’ve been inspired by hand painted looking backgrounds anyways. I decided to do stripes on one side and dots on the other. I used black acrylic paint to paint the stripes, and then I though, I still have that stencil I made with my Silhouette from when I made a cat t-shirt, so I used that instead of dots. I’m really pleased with how it turned out.
I also just had to fussy cut a couple of cat faces from my sheet of Curious paper. And use those puffy cat stickers from Dollarama. That one came with stars too, which matched perfectly.
For the title, I wanted to use a wood veneer from Michaels, and I wanted to colour it to match. I kinda was going for colouring the bottom half so it says FURever, but I don’t know if that comes across as much, cause when I started colouring it with orange ink and sponge dauber, I really liked the subtle ombre effect it created and I decided to stick with that.
The other trendy design element I wanted to include was a border of little rectangular snippets of pattern paper. I pulled all of the peach papers I had in my stash, and cut a little rectangle out of each of them. I also used some of those papers to create layers under my photos.
I completed the page with a couple of gold splatters, a few enamel dots, and a brad from My Mind’s Eye Cut and Paste. I also used my new date stamp from Dear Lizzy. It’s messy but I’m getting the hang of it. It’s not super important to me to get dates on the pages, I just wanted to use my new stamp.
So go check out the challenge at ARTastic. There are several prize packs to be won.
xoxo
A
