POSTCARD CHALLENGE WEEK 17~NORWAY

This week I was so short on time (too many late hours at work)-thankfully I had a head start and had my card done by mid week. Now the page was the  challenge -I Loved this image I found of Norway and knew I wanted to use it for my page-I tried to re-create it twice without success- So when all else fails just collage it, altered it, and hope it works! So the land of mountains, vikings, waterways, and churches were my subject matter this week; especially the Fjords and Borgard Stave Church. Enjoy!

Front of Card

This card was done using Liquiditex acrylics.

The card was based on an old poster for tourism

in Norway. I loved the view of Stave Church.

The background was done in the paint, the buildings & brick wall

were hand cut out and outlined in markers.

Back of Card

Correspondence:

"Melite,

So you did guess correctly- Alexander Graham Bell was my

great, great, grandfather.

But explain to me why you were at a sheep auction?Do you raise sheep?

I loved the pottery you purchased-some day I Will share some pics

of the pieces I have collected on my travels.

This card is from a trip I took in the past.

Take care of yourself,

Alexander."

Page In Book



The background image was the one I fell in love with.

I tried to stay with using acrylics this week ,but I just

couldn't achieve the tones-so I printed it out twice-once in color& once

in black and white. I did a lot of fussy cutting to leave the  side mountains in

B&W . The  foreground water reflection is the color copy; but I altered

that to blur the canoes , and ship that was part of the original picture.

Next I used some viking clip art of the ship- hand colored with acrylics.

The Viking  clip art was colored with colored pencils.

So not what I wanted to do; but it turned out well.

Page in Book w/Card

So this is the final page with post card in place.

I love how the two mountain ranges sorta line up with each other.

So another week is done~ wonder where we are off to next?

Happy Creating Everyone,

Fotojoy/Joyce