"Summertime Blues"

My wooden shadow box cost me 50pence from the local Cancer Research charity shop.  It was plain on the inside (the side I have worked in) and the other side was a children's cartoon mouse.  For 50pence it was very substantial and solid.  I should have taken a photograph of what it use to look like ....but that's me Mrs Impatient!

It is now hanging in the Cubby Hole's exhibition in the collaborative summer centre piece.  I used acrylic paint that I blended myself and then overstamped with acrylic white paint - this was in an attempt to get a "scrubbed washed" look - as if bleached by the sun.  Pale pink flourishes were also added. 

The individual panels in the box were made from the cover of an old Next Directory - these too were painted and stencilled.  Words were added by stamping onto tissue paper and various stamps were used to create the backgrounds.

Some elements were further stamped onto painted card i.e. the flowers above.  The butterflies, bird and foliage are Tim Holtz grungeboard elements and these too were painted in acrylic paints and edged with white acrylic paint to make them hopefully pop out.  Numerous charms have been added

Paper flowers, Magenta swirls and Marianne Creatables leaf sprigs were added to the outside of the frame.  I am entering this piece into the following challenges:-

The Stamp Man Challenges - Summer Colours

Tuesday Throwdown - "dimension & texture"

Flutterby Wednesdays - "open" challenge showing a butterfly in my case

Thanks for stopping by and hopefully commenting, I appreciate you taking the time.  Suzanne ~x~