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Sunday 9 December 2012

A Shrine

This week challenge #37 over at Out of a hat creations sees us creating 'A Shrine', now this is something I haven't done before and to tell you the truth I've struggled a bit and I've had a number of ideas going round in my head since Thursday.  In the end I have decided to choose 'Love' as I am very lucky to have always had the love and support of great family and friends.

I started with a wooden icon which I covered with Claudine Hellmuth gesso. Next I added layers of Tim Holtz distress inks in gathered twigs, brushed corduroy, barn door and mustard seed plus Dylusions post box ink spray and Ranger gold adirondack acrylic paint dabber.  I wanted to give the shrine an old distressed feel so once dry I painted the background with Tim Holtz rock candy distress crackle paint in various thicknesses and then added another coat of brushed corduroy distress ink before applying Claudine Hellmuth multi-medium matte which I to get a bubbled effect in some areas.  As a final step for the background I edged each wodden section with the gold dabber.  For the images I stamped the PaperArtsy loves and kisses plate 1 onto cream card stock and cut each piece out.  I used the two brown distress inks to colour and covered in Ranger glossy accents.  I attached the main image to the shrine using double sided foam tape and attached two metal wings behind it, I also attached a metal sacred heart at the top to the shrine.  Finally I added some gold glass seed beads to the top corners.
Thanks for looking!
Tracey x

5 comments:

  1. This is terrific Tracey and a very lovely shape , with good colours and images as well.

    I must admit I didn't find the challenge easy either but I reckon that is what the word challenge means

    Great to have you join in with us at the Hatters this week.

    Love Chrissie xxx

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  2. Hi Tracey,
    fantastic shrine,love all the work you have done on the background & the images are prefect.
    Thanks for sharing with us at Out of a Hat
    Janet x

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  3. Beautiful shrine to love Tracey. Annette x

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  4. Hi Tracey this is so beautiful I love how you have done this Shrine. Thanks for joining the Hatters. Sandra X

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