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Wednesday 22 June 2011

"Money Can't Buy Me Love"

When I saw this challenge on the Gingersnaps Creations list I knew I had to play along.  I first must mention however that if you take a look at the Gingers challenge blog you will get to see some amazing inspiration from the other design team members.  My work is "Money Can't Buy Me Love" as from the Beatles song.

It is an 8x8 canvas board  which I have stained with actual old tea bags - I always have a pile in the kitchen waiting to go into my compost bin.  Waiting for this to dry a little I photocopied some old Turkish and Egyptian currency on slightly glossy good quality paper.

I then proceeded to tear three "flowers" and fold a fan from the photocopied notes - I am not sure if you will be able to pick this up in my photographs.  The canvas mount was then further decorated with distress inks; Dusty Concorde and Denim.  The hearts were cut by hand from Tim Holtz paper and then cuttlebugged and distressed.



The perfume bottles were stamped, distress inks added along with glossy accents....the thinking behind the perfume bottles were that "Money Can't Buy Me Love" but it sure can buy perfume - which I do so love LOL.  I will take my tongue out of my cheek now and hope you have enjoyed looking at my layout......

I am also entering the Moving Along with the Times  challenge again - inspired by a song and Wednesday Stamper who are looking for circles in our work.

Suzanne ~x~

20 comments:

Suzi B said...

Like this Sue especially the perfume bottles.
Sue :)

Crafting Queen said...

Wonderful canvas, love it!

Fliss said...

What a stunning creation Suzanne. So very inventive and I love the colours and just everything about it.
Hugs, Fliss xx

Anonymous said...

Suzanne this is brilliant I totally love it, how ingenious to use the currency like that. P.s. please keep blogging lots today, am injured and can't do much whilst resting

Shell Shearer Swinscoe said...

Wonderful creation, love the money flowers just a great idea!

Thank you for sharing with us at MAWTT this week, good luck!
Hugs Shell xx

Hermine said...

This looks great

Rika said...

Fabulous canvas!

~*~Patty S said...

Wonderful piece Suzanne...fun use of circles and now I have that great song in my head too :)
oxo

DesignerDiva said...

Fabulous project what a great idea to photocopy the notes!
Thanks for sharing it with us for our sing song this week at MAWTT and good luck with the challenge
Hugs Laurie x

Jacqueline said...

This is reaaly great - you are so clever - Jacqueline xx.

Juls said...

ooooh wow!!!! everything about this is just FABULOUS!!!! Love the colours and all the textures!!!! Hugs Juls

Brenda Brown said...

Love it Suzanne, the ideas, the creativeness and the final piece.
luv and hugs {brenda} xoxox

Gerri Herbst said...

Love this. The soft pastel colors are lovely and your layout is spot on. The torn flowers are genius, must try that. thanks for stopping by. gerri ;)

Vicky Hayes said...

What an amazing canvas Suzanne! Those antique-looking perfume bottles look almost real!

Cath said...

I love this and and the colour's are my favourite at the moments.

Cathx

Jen said...

This is amazing!!! Love it!

Dani Rogall said...

that looks great!

Silvia(Barnie) said...

Wow, I'm missing words, such a fantastic work.

lena-dailyscrap said...

Looking great! Well done.

Anonymous said...

So pretty! That rosette is fab!

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