Wednesday, July 9, 2014

STAMPOTIQUE DESIGNERS' CHALLENGE 155: USE NEWSPAPER or MAGAZINE

This week, the Stampotique Designers' Challenge is hosted by Magda Polakow, one of the newest stamp designers for Stampotique Originals.  Magda is asking us to incorporate something from a newspaper or magazine into our art:
Hello everyone! It's Magda. I'm back to work after my holidays but still have time for some relaxing. I'm sitting surrounded by books and magazines. Today I would like to ask you to use a newspaper or magazine in your project. It can be a small piece, some images from magazine to make a collage or you can use whole page as a background. Have fun! Can't wait to see your creations!
Each time I visit my sister on Cape Cod, we visit her local transfer station, aka "the dump," to check out what's in the Swap Shop, a free-standing building where one can deposit reusable goods no longer wanted, or snatch up someone else's discard.  I have accumulated quite a collection of magazines this way, so I chose a National Geographic from December 2012, and started thumbing through it.  This picture immediately caught my eye because of the bright colors.  What you see are multi-colored cloth strips used by Mongolian shamans--those called by spirits to heal bodies, minds and souls.



I trimmed the magazine photo to the size of an ATC (2-1/2" x 3-1/2") and adhered it to an ATC blank for strengthing.  I chose "Head" from my growing number of Stampotique stamps, and stamped him on white card stock.  For sharp contrast against all this color, both Head and my sentiment remained in black and white.  Take a look:


I hope you will join me in creating something for this week's challenge.  The rules for submitting your work can be found here.  At the end of each month, two lucky artists will be randomly chosen to receive a $30 gift certificate for anything in the Stampotique "store."

Cheers!


14 comments:

  1. Whoa, what a wonderful imagination, Kay. Love how you have incorporated the magazine cutout background with image and sentiment!! great!!

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  2. The stunning colours of the Shaman's scarves make a lovely backdrop, great idea to leave both Head and your words in b&w. Fantastic page:-) x

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  3. Love the contrast Kay! Amazing what you've created <3
    Wish you a lovely week honey *mwah*

    xx Arwen

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  4. This is so cool, I love the piece of magazine you chose, what a nice creation

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  5. Interesting background, love all that texture!! Head looks quietly confident and your sentiment fits the bill perfectly :D xx

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  6. Love how this worked out, just beautiful bg colors.

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  7. Such fun this challange! Had several idea's still need a little time to pick and make one... Your's is great! Super background for the black and white pieces! Maybe the won stamps will be here before the weekend and I can play with them... Have a fun week my friend, Gerrina

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  8. Wow - love how you incorporated the photo - so effective!
    Alison xx

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  9. Fabulous choice, very clever Kay!! All these magazines accumulated are a very good thing and have all a function you prove this well, nothing to throw away :) Your ATC is wonderful!!!! Mwah!

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  10. Still loving your black and white ;)
    Fabtastic ATC.
    Have a lovely weekend, big hugs from Poppy and me xxx

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  11. ATC's are so fun to make and your choice for the background is fabulous for this one.

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  12. Love your background. Why don't I have useful magazines like that?? Head is such fun Hugs

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  13. Oh wow... I love re-cycle and it looks amazing as a background. I need to go to some places like that and look for old books to use :D this is a stunning piece.

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