Today’s challenge from Created Byhand is…
Create art using glossy paper! Use glossy paper to create your art - use dye inks, paints, papers, collage images, eyelets, ribbons, etc… along with glossy paper! Create a card, ATC, tag, altered art, 4 x 4, inchie, skinny (3 x 5 inches)… whatever you fancy. Post your art to your blog, picture trail or photo sharing site, then post a direct link to your challenge art under the comments section to share with others! Have fun and make art!!!
I first gold embossed on the Glossy paper and then used alcohol links in various tones. This created a fabulous background paper (a little to busy…but oh well). From there I stamped the pear, eye and lettering using StazOn brown ink. I added diamond glaze to the words. Lastly I wrapped the entire ATC with bronze DMC floss.
I started with just the pear on the ATC but it was a bit to small so where to go from there? Beside me I had open my binder of stamps and there was a stamp with an eye. So I started thinking “why not Pear of my eye” and where exactly did the phrase “apple of my eye” come from. So I did a bit of research…here is what I found courtesy of the Phrase Finder.
Meaning: Originally meaning the central aperture of the eye. Figuratively it is something, or more usually someone, cherished above others.
Create art using glossy paper! Use glossy paper to create your art - use dye inks, paints, papers, collage images, eyelets, ribbons, etc… along with glossy paper! Create a card, ATC, tag, altered art, 4 x 4, inchie, skinny (3 x 5 inches)… whatever you fancy. Post your art to your blog, picture trail or photo sharing site, then post a direct link to your challenge art under the comments section to share with others! Have fun and make art!!!
I first gold embossed on the Glossy paper and then used alcohol links in various tones. This created a fabulous background paper (a little to busy…but oh well). From there I stamped the pear, eye and lettering using StazOn brown ink. I added diamond glaze to the words. Lastly I wrapped the entire ATC with bronze DMC floss.
I started with just the pear on the ATC but it was a bit to small so where to go from there? Beside me I had open my binder of stamps and there was a stamp with an eye. So I started thinking “why not Pear of my eye” and where exactly did the phrase “apple of my eye” come from. So I did a bit of research…here is what I found courtesy of the Phrase Finder.
Meaning: Originally meaning the central aperture of the eye. Figuratively it is something, or more usually someone, cherished above others.
Origin: The phrase is exceedingly old and first appears in Old English in a work attributed to King Aelfred (the Great) of Wessex, AD 885, entitled Gregory's Pastoral Care. The earliest recorded use in modern English is in Sir Walter Scott's Old Mortality, 1816:
"Poor Richard was to me as an eldest son, the apple of my eye."
It also appears in the Bible, Deuteronomy 32:10 (King James Version)
He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
and Zechariah 2:8:
For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.
Kinda interesting…I hope you enjoy. I am open to any and all comments…Caro
Oh my goodness, I LOVE your card!! So bright, artsy...beautiful embossing!
ReplyDeleteWoooooooooooooow what a fantastic creation. Love the work.
ReplyDeletethis is fabulous!!!!
ReplyDeleteLove the card. You are working faster than I can go look at all the sister's blogs :-)
ReplyDeleteTo my knowledge pear is a cross between Apple and Guava, but I can't find any reference to that. May be I dreamt it.
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Anna
this is really fabulous!!!!
ReplyDeleteExcellent!!
ReplyDeleteWow, this is so stunning - what a great art work !
ReplyDeleteWow, love it, looks really great.
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