Wednesday, November 12, 2008

wednesday stamper telephone


First of all, credit where credit is due. I have completely stolen the idea for this ATC from Jo. When I saw that the theme at wednesday stamper was telephones. I thought "nah! not for me this week, I have nothing telephone themed" Then I saw Jo's piece where she had used part of a telephone directory in her background. This reminded me that I had once been sent some pages from a foreign directory. But what inspired me most of all were her birds, straight away I thought "birds on a telephone wire" and that's how this piece came about. I used the 3 crows stamp from Inka, and real wire.
I am also entering this for Saturday workout, as I have antiqued the directory page with distress inks, water and walnut ink, then heated it with a heat gun to make it feel old; and Theme thursday, where the theme is birds

EDIT ooo I've just realised I can call it blog inspiration, rather than copycatting and enter it for the artygirlz challenge!! BONUS!

38 comments:

  1. What a great idea! Love your birds on a (telephone) wire.

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  2. wow Joanne, loads of challenges for a lovely piece of work - love your telephone idea!!

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  3. Clever way to introduce the telephone into the challenge! Well done.

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  4. Your crows are brilliant as is your background. I think it's really special when we inspire one another and all the more special when we let the person that inspired us know :) You have me wishing for some foreign phone book pages and I realize that would be a fun thing to send overseas as well! You've inspired me Joanne!

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  5. Had to go back and click for a close up. You used REAL wire too - awesome!

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  6. This is fabulous! I was just thinking how cool it would be to have some pages from a foreign phone book. My American one is pretty boring, lol!

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  7. Joanne, it turned out great. Love the birds on the wire.

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  8. What a wonderful card!! Beautifully created.

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  9. Lovely piece. Birds are really fab. Great job.

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  10. OMG Joanne this is totally stunning. Brilliant piece of art.

    Thanks for this great entry to SaWo.

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  11. Beautiful, love the birdson the wire.

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  12. Bird on a wire - very cool idea!

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  13. WOW This is fabulous Joanne !!

    Thanks for joining in with this weeks Arty Girlz challenge

    Julie xx

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  14. wonderful idea with the telephone wire! love your card!

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  15. Beautiful work joanne

    thanks for joining in with the Arty Girlz challenge.

    crissi xx

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  16. Beautiful telphone background and the birds on the wire.

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  17. I love this, Joanne. Great way to tie in all the challenges!

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  18. Brilliant way to combine all the challenges! This is really striking. I love all the elements, especially the wire!

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  19. Hi Joanne ! love your work , well done for the stamp crafter mag ! great telephone birds!
    hope you enjoyed your day with us .. It was great having you there !
    and you made a fab card !
    love maddy x

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  20. Beautiful! And indeed a great idea for WS!

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  21. Joanne, I had given the theme a pass too but now that I look at your very imaginative piece I realize that I should have thought further outside the box. Very intriguing!

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  22. Wonderful work! Love your background!
    LG Anke

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  23. just three words:
    great great great

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  24. Great interpretation of the theme!! I love it.

    Sue

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  25. think there needs to be a peize for the piece that fits the most blog challenge themes as possible.. this surely would win lol..
    good idea Joanne.. it made me think of buzzby from way back then !

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  26. that's fab Joanne, great interpretation!

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  27. What a great take on the theme.
    Beautiful card.

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  28. Very cool! Love that you used phonebook pages too!

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  29. Joanne, totalllly gorgeous a fabulous inspiring piece.

    Thank you for sharing.

    have a lovely weekend
    chriss x

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  30. Great atc and congratulations on your artwork being published in craft stamper. Pascale :)

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  31. Thankyou for being inspired by my blog and my use of telephone pages Joanne :0))) Glad I could be of help in triggering further ideas :0)
    ..it was a tricky theme and its always good to think out of the box when the obvious isnt possible.
    Great composition and colour combo :0)

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  32. Really clever work Joanne - love the birds on a wire idea.

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  33. Love this Joanne - and as for the multi tasking - well - lol

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word verification is off! thanks for all your lovely comments, they mean so much to me!