May 19, 10:51 PM
Weekend Spark
I finally finished my page for this past weekend’s spark about what item do you have in your home that you never think you’d have. My topic was our Goldfish. Two months ago my daughter came home from a birthday party with a goldfish. My husband and I were surprised to say the least. We hadn’t planned on getting any new pets anytime soon. But being animal lovers and wanting to keep our daughters happy we knew we had to give it a good home. We ended up going to the pet store to get supplies and a tank for it as well as a “friend” for it so that each of our daughters could say they have their own fish. So here we are two months later with these two goldfish in our house. They definitely weren’t planned additions to our family, but they have turned out to be fun afterall.
My page is very simple. Honestly I had other ideas for the design of the page, it just didn’t turn out as I expected while I was working on it. The “fish” is just wood painted with Orange glaze. The title says “Uninvited but Welcomed”. I did the title with a technique I saw on Tim Holtz’s DVD. I cut out letters from a quickutz and adhered them to paper. Then I got some foil tape and covered the letters and brayered over it to get the letters to “pop”. I then dabbed some alcohol inks over the whole thing. Then I got a sharpie to go over the letters to make it stand out some more, which is a bit different from what Tim did on his DVD. The scan didn’t show it too well, but in person it looks kind of cool. It was the first time I tried this technique myself, so it was kind of a learning experience for me at the same time, which is the whole point of this challenge, right?
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