First off, thanks to Gina at
Gypsy Soul Laser Cuts for inviting me to be her guest
designer for the month of September! I'm going to be starting off with something weird
and (maybe) thought provoking....
If such wondrous things as different dimensions of existence were real
and a person could travel to them, how would you do it? How about a portal? What if you said to yourself, Hmmmmm, I think I'd like
to have a picnic in the Great Forest of Silverhelme or chat with the folks in
the Kraken Nebula?
Wouldn't it be cool to dial a location up and step through a portal with
your cute little overnight bag or your picnic basket? Just putting it out there.......
I started out with the
Arch Top Cabinet with Doors (which I love and can see
a bazillion possibilities for). I pre-cut the paper for the front outer frame
that houses the doors and then I assembled and glued everything together except
the doors. I pre-cut the paper for the doors and set it aside. To hinge the doors, I used linen book binding tape. For a tutorial on how to
do this, click
HERE and scroll down to near the bottom of the page. The paper I chose for the outside of the cabinet is called
Double Dot Vintage Gingerbread and you can get it at
Alpha Stamps.
After gluing on all the papers and inking edges, I attached these hinges and
applied little doodads to fancy them up a bit and added lots of hand painted
details with gold acrylic paint. A spare eyeball, a watch face and a couple of large brass findings I gave a
wash of gold to, made a fine and dandy focal for the top of the cabinet.
Open the cabinet doors and I see a universe of possibilities.
Oh! There is somebody there. Is she a tour guide? Your friendly neighborhood
bus driver? Or maybe she's riding the portal like you and looking for her stop.
Better step aside, this may be it......
I opted to paint the inside of the doors instead of trying to paper doors
that were already attached and chose this gorgeous blue as it went well with
the nebula I painted in the background. I used GSLCuts chipboard
Compass which I painted gold, cut in half and glued to
either side of the doors. More hand painted details and some sparkly bits were
added to the doors as well.
To make the nebula background, I started off with some water color washes in
blues with a bit of pink and yellow thrown in there. Then I added some acrylic
high lights to the lighter spaces, which added dimension (Ha. See what I did
there?) and texture. And emphasized the lighter spaces, making them appear to
be lit up from the back.
The girl with the house on her head is an original drawing I did about a
year ago called (very cleverly) 'Girl with a House'. I scanned her into my
computer and changed her size to accommodate the cabinet interior. I added lots
of watch parts and glass beads to her face to make her look like she's from
very far away. The tree represents the Tree of Life to remind folks that no
matter where you're from, life is life and not to go pointing your laser gun or
vaporizer at a harmless tourist.
List of Supplies:
Other
acrylic paints
watercolors
gold micro beads
Swarovski flat back crystals
assorted watch parts
brass tree charm
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