Rakastan sinua vielä / A broken heart

Rakkaus tuntuu olevan teemana vähän kaikkialla tässä kuussa eikä Jehkottaren haaste tehnyt poikkeusta. Mutta oli kiintoisaa tutkia särkynyttä sydäntä, onhan tähän asti aiheena ollut rakkaus, ei torjuttu tai loppunut rakkaus.
Miellyttävän tumma teema kaipasi tummia värejä. Sydämet tein kohopastalla pahvista leimaamien sydänten päälle, lopuksi maalasin ne. Piakkoin panen ohjeet blogiinkin.
Revin sydämet ja lisäsin kuparihiutaleita ikäänkuin ne olisivat kytevää tulta eli tunnetta (ja myös koska ne oli aika lailla kuusikulmioita jotka oli haasteinspiraationa annettu). Sydämen puolikkaat on yritetty taas yhdistää (rautalangalla), mutta särkynyt mikä särkynyt.

Osallistun siis Jehkottaren haasteeseen nro 16.

I have covered about all kinds of love this month, but there is one more: the broken heart.
Love is not gone yet, it smolders and burns on a low flame, causing ache and distress.

 Heart was done with texture paste, paints and inks, I then tore it in two halves and 'mended' it with wire. Copper mica flakes are the embers.

When is the best courting time?

Is that a silly question? You can court anytime and people did. Or did they? Courting used to be seasonal, either in the slow months of winter or else in the short nights of summer. At least where I am sitting right now, that is Scandinavia.
These cards showing Frida Kahlo and the place being South America, perhaps there was no specific courting time. Although in one of the following atc's she is making the remark that she hated when it rained in July - now that might have been the best courting time.

I built these somewhat 3D with paper scraps, washi tape and pieces of cardstock.

Next came the fun part, spraying. I used a sunny yellow and orange colored Distress inks which I sprinkled with cherry Infusions flakes. I just love to see them give out their color in and blend with the ink. Some of them stayed put and created nice little sprinkles on top.

 Then I stamped it with a script stamp and added some diluted gesso highlights. The faces and fans are raised.

It was the BEST courting weather

I am entering this into:
More than Words: August Mini-Challenge with the word BEST
Three Muses: Roses
 Country View Challenge: Hot summer days

Fly home!

The August Tim Holtz tag challenge introduced some nice techniques that I simply had to try. The brayered and flicked background technique immediately became my favorite, it produced such beautiful clean and airy look.

I used inks in colors Weathered Wood, Chipped Sapphire and Hickory Smoke. The first layer was weathered wood, gently diluted with a few drops of water. Next came weather wood mixed with chipped sapphire and hickory smoke, again with a few drops of water. It was flicked with water between brayering layers and the final drops are Infusions Black Knights - I like them because they start black but soon form vintage brown afterglow as well.

The die had ovals to be filled - I filled them with all sorts of linen. They soon reminded me of eggs. So I added  a flecked black feather (guinea fowl) and a charm birdie.

I could not find a text that would have fitted. I am mourning the fact that rub-ons seem to have all but vanished. Thankfully I am still hoarding a nice stash of rub-on letters, white among them. This way I was able to create my own phrase.
It was tied with a silk yarn. (Knitting yarn... Debbie Bliss if you should wonder. Takes dye well.)

entering this into:
Tim Holtz 12 Tags of 2016: August