A Spread for Love Songs

Last weekend I got inspired by latest It's All About Vintage -challenge.

The theme of 65th challenge is Music.

At first I gathered materials for a card. Then I happened to find two music-themed pictures I have been keeping safe. They gave me an idea to add a new spread for my scrap/deco book. Some songs have a way to move you and find a place in your heart. Especially love songs tend to do that. That is why this spread fits in greatly with other pages, showing things I love.

/ Viikonloppuna sain yllättävän inspiraation, kun vierailin It's All About Vintage -haasteen sivuilla. Teemana on nyt musiikki.

Löysin korttitarpeita etsiessäni huolella säästämäni musiikkiaiheiset vintage-kuvat. En ole halunnut luopua niistä, ja siksi ne ovat odottaneet oikeaa käyttötarkoitusta. Onneksi muistin kuvia katsellessani scrappays/deco-vihkon, jota olen tehnyt itselleni. Siinä on kaksi aukeamaa aiheista, jotka ovat minulle läheisiä. Koska monet musiikkikappaleet ovat nekin löytäneet tiensä sisimpääni, sopi tämäkin teema mukaan decoon.

Here's one of my favourite love songs from Sting:

My favourite: Beautiful Vasilisa

Collage Obsession challenged us to present our favourite fairy tale.
I have loved ever since a little girl fairy tales and their beautiful pictures, so it was a hard choice to pick just one of those.

I ended up with a tale from a book of Russian folk stories: Beautiful Vasilisa.

Creating a piece of art from this topic was a long process, but this evening I got it finished. Rather than making a card I chose to make a spread of this to my scrap book.

The story is about a brave, dutiful and - of course - beautiful young woman, who's mother dies. In her dying bed mother gives her a small doll, which eventually helps her with cruel stepmother, stepsisters and evil witch Baba Jaga. At the end she needs no more help from the doll to get married with a tsar! :)

In left page I used watercolour pencils and white acrylic colour. The background of right page is made with acrylic colours. To the middle I actually copied a page of text with ornamental frames from the book and coloured and stamped it. The figure of the girl I drew with ink and watercolours.

Thanks for reading :) Have a nice weekend!

Edit: 16th of March 12:30... Took a better picture in daylight and updated it here.

Ruudukko scräppäyksessä / Grid in scrap page

Tämä aukeama ottaa osaa Haaste[el]lista-blogitapahtuman haasteeseen #7: ruudukko / grid.

Ensimmäinen scräppäystyöni on nyt syntynyt, kiitos haasteesta! :)