Altered Art CD

This I made using a transparent CD spacer disk.

Alchohol inked one side with plum, ivy and silver. Then on a white card I stamped a sheet of writing, and glued that on top of the inked side - with the wording face down, trimming it when dry. So this gave me a plain white back.

Turned it over and collaged a Victorian lady in furs and a hand muff- which I had enhanced with inks,and water colours and glued that on to conceal the disk hole.

I then cut out some ivy leaves from some old silk leaves I had for ages for flower arranging, and glued them on.

To finish it off I added a purple ribbon and a silver bead to the reverse - which I attached with double sided tape and added a strip of paper to hide the ribbon.

It took me around 2 and a half hours to make - but I was pleased with the result.

In the daylight it looks lovely and shimmery and more subtle - and just the thing for this cold wintry weather.

Altered Art CD

This is a CD which I altered for a swap.

Method

I glued some thick card onto the CD, then added thick white paper (both cut to size).

I painted the backing paper - several times - and added bronze acrylic here and there. The left hand side looks darker in the photo as you can't define the copper in it.

I stamped on the Geisha and then painted the flowers and foliage and highlights.

Then I stamped some border flowers and foliage and painted those.

Finally I melted several layers of enamel then stamped into it to make the oriental fish images; painted over it with copper paint - wiped some off - painted it with black water colour - swiped that with kitchen paper - to leave an 'aged' impression with definition of two fish - one of which is a skeleton.



The colours are richer in daylight - the flash seems to have made it all look paler