Oh my goodness paintbrush art was not in my vocabulary.! Over at Eclectic Paperie's Blog they had a paintbrush challenge and you guessed it... I decided to play along ( okay ... I have to stop laughing long enough to get through this post) . I love Eclectic Paperie's Challenges but rarely do I play along... they are always so unique ( don't tell them I have a stack of unfinished challenge attempts where I did not make the deadlines) ... but do go visit them
http://eclecticpaperie.blogspot.com/2013/08/eteam-picks-challenge-mixed-media.html .
Anyway... let me show you what I did. I had an old paint brush with a red handle, I had no idea
what I was going to do, then I remember an old stamp I had, I got so tickled thinking of the possibilities but nothing was coming so I went to bed. Oh my goodness when I closed my eyes, the ideas started coming... Sista Girlfriend was born. I used my Loralie Sister Stamp ( had to dust her off), my first thought was to use the bristles as her hair and to braid it... oh so difficult... anyway I got one braid, wrapped it and used the heat gun to "seal" it .. hahaha ...duh...melted the bristles !!!
Sista "Diva" Girlfriend arrived ...the part I had sectioned off for bangs had drawn up, so they became sassy bangs... I'm laughing real hard now... she's sassy with "tude" ( attitude) !!! Okay now she needs some bling and the shoes need to be spectators ... and she's gotta have the big "First Lady" corsage and then she's gotta have a flower in her hair... you go "gurl" !!
I'm feeling really silly at this point... BUT having way too much fun... I was going to leave the red handle ... you know, the red and purple thing was great, but then decided to use my symphony tissue tape ( Tim Holtz) to wrap around the red handle and then I used my seedless preserves and dusty concord distressing inks to colorize the tape (repeating the colors I used for her outfit).
Final touches I added a Tim Holtz swivel clasp and attached foliage leaf , a high heel charm and a small piece of purple netting ... OMG too fun! Hope you enjoyed it! What am I going to do with her ?
She's going in the Queendom of course !!
Laughing along with you Rea as I read your post . . . Sista Diva has attitude and I adore her from the top of her bristles { using a heat tool on them is sooo much fun but boy does it smell, hahaha}
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Your post has been a joy to read tonight as I have chuckled along at your joy in altering that brush..woohooo!!
So glad you joined in over at eclectic Paperie and finished it too..loooove it Rea!
Big hugs
Tracy
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Thank you Tracy for stopping by. So glad you enjoyed the post and my Sista "Diva" Girlfriend!
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