Design By shilpi

Friday, 3 August 2012

A Floral Lighted CANVAS....

Colorful, Back lit CANVAS Art...DAY LIGHT

I saw this on "Pinterest",some time ago and fell in LOVE with it.
This is an artist's piece made from metal that has hand cut flowers all over it. Its back lit by LED string lights ....Looks Awesome!!!...isn't it ?...
I have been planning to do this one way or other, tried different medias,from tin of a soda can to layered foil to card stock ....everything......
Card stock worked the best for me till now.....
though i wish i had painted it off -white before cutting to match the color of canvas,or taken a different color paper....black ,light brown or offwhite...as i wanted to add multi color layered flowers on top to add color and bling....

www.thescrapshoppeblog.com/2012/05/backlit-canvas-art

Then recently a saw Michele's version of the same .....looks beautiful.....
Seeing her's and "itsy-bitsy flower challenge" gave me the push to move my lazy bum and start doing things i so very much love...lol...

Wanted to do this in so many different ways ...
1.with clean cut outs..
2.with clean and partial cuts...
3.with layering...

And ended up doing all of them in one canvas only,clean cut flowers under the color layered flowers so that their is more light peeping out from beneath.And partial cut leaves and scallops which i have pulled up slightly...looks nice if i may say so myself.....
I'm gonna do few more for sure,though should i keep the sizes same or differ them, i have yet to decide...Mine one is 12"/12" canvas...quite comfortable to handle when you are cutting the flowers and leaves,all the curves and circle are easy to make,as one can rotate the whole canvas for that perfect round centers for the flowers....I would love to do a really big one....lets see.....

Colorful, Back lit CANVAS Art...NIGHT LIGHT

Tuesday, 31 July 2012

RECYCLE Bottle Lamp - FLOWER Girl......

Upcycle glass bottles that's one of my favorite things to do,
and turn it into a lamp....AWESOME!.....
I have been trying to make lamps with bottles for almost a year now...
....inspired from Pinterest......
but it's not so easy to get many a stuff,especially lamp kits for bottle or jars....
Got a temporarily solution,lets see how it sustain....if this works then wonderful,
otherwise i'll have to request some friends coming from abroad to
bring some bottle lamp kits for me....

I had good fun doing this......though trying to match the colors of the flowers(from itsy-bitsy) to the painting of the face was little tricky......but still......

it's a good start for my faces on bottles....next one will be BLUE - GREEN,and the next will be shades of AQUA...my fav., ideas are already flowing need to put it on paper,before they really do fly off....