Bitten By the Challenge Bug

For a while now I’ve been wanting to alter the cover of my travel journal from my trip last year to China and this week’s challenge of Travel/Places from Arty Girlz gave me the inspiration to finally do it. So here is my go at the challenge:


The background uses a black and white photocopy of a map of China that I have coloured in using the same technique as the background for the flower card but then highlighted areas with watercolour pencils. The main highlights being the actual journey we took from Beijing to Xi’an to Zhengzhou and back to Beijing. I then stamped a dragon onto acetate with StazOn and coloured the dragon with cosmic shimmer mixed into three-dimensional glue. The letters were all cut out by hand and ‘China’ has been accentuated with three-dimensional glue. It was great fun doing this AND I’ve ticked off one of my jobs from my ‘To Do’ list 🙂

 

Kim Dellow

Kim Dellow is an artist–designer–film-maker living the creative life in London, UK. She's a freelance creative for the craft industry and others, and she loves to share her art-ventures on her blog.

This Post Has 9 Comments

  1. Femmy

    beautiful work! love it!!!

  2. crissi

    fantastic work love the journal cover sound like a fab trip.

    Thanks for joining in with the Arty Girlz challenge.

    crissi xx

  3. kath

    This is fabulous and what a wonderful memory of your trip

  4. ilonka

    really an amazing piece of art!

  5. Julie

    WOW This is totally Fab!!!

  6. Cuchy

    What a work in colouring! Thanks for sharing your background technique. I’ll give it a go. M. Carmen

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