Thursday, April 13, 2017

Guest Designer - Alison Bomber

It is time to introduce our Guest Designer for the April's Showers challenge.  Please say hello and give a warm welcome to Alison Bomber (a.k.a. Butterfly) of Words and Pictures.  Alison was the Design Team's top pick from the Welcome Spring challenge.


Playing with stamps, inks, paints and textures still feels like a fairly new thing to me - my creativity has always revolved around words and theatre - but it has become as necessary as breathing over the last few years. I love the experimentation, the learning curve, the discoveries. I almost always work with textures and layers, and with words and ideas too. It's a joy to be invited to guest here at Frilly and Funkie - and I've got a surprisingly simple creation (for me!) to share with you for Suzz's lovely challenge theme.


I love those April days when you have blue skies, sunshine, and gentle showers all intermingling. It seems to me the flowers and trees always look their happiest at this time of year, so my tag is playing with all those elements.

There are some brightly coloured flowers and butterflies (a Calico Craft Part altered mainly with DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics) enjoying the warmth, light, and blue skies..

... just as the gentle shower begins to fall (Glossy Accents raindrops against a Distress Ink and PaperArtsy Fresco Crackle sky), refreshing the earth with moisture. The sentiment, a favourite Tim Holtz phrase of mine, is clear-embossed too for that glistening look of water in sunlight. Do come over and visit Words and Pictures if you'd like to see some more details.


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After you check out the details of Alison's lovely tag, come on back and share your April's Shower project. There is lots of time as the challenge is open until 11:55 pm EST on April 25th and you can find it here.

15 comments:

  1. What a beautiful tag Alison! I love the way you've represented the shower of rain on those delicately coloured flowers. Thank you so much for sharing your talents with us at Frilly and Funkie xx

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  2. Very beautiful tag with a lot of wonderful ideas

    Love Chrissie xx

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  3. Beautiful and a fabulous combination of touches
    Love
    Amanda x

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  4. A gorgeous tag Alison xx love the background and raindrops completed with the CCP florals etc

    TFS Annie xx

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  5. Alison your tag reminds me of a lovely spring day where we see all the beautiful flowers peeking through the raindrops. Beautiful tag! Thanks for guest designing with us!

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  6. I always love Alison's beautiful creations. The colors on this tag are so perfect for spring! And if I look closely, I can see those flowers dancing in the rain! Thanks for being our guest designer!

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  7. DELIGHTFULLY DAINTY! Your DARLING flowers are getting a shimmering DOSE of DELICIOUSNESS from above. HAPPY SPRING Alison. Thank you for starting my day off with such LOVELINESS! Xj.

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  8. Beautiful! A truly lovely April day! Chrisx

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  9. Beautiful! A truly lovely April day! Chrisx

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  10. What a stunning April tag Alison! Love this!

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  11. Love the raindrops on your pretty Spring tag.

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  12. Beautiful tag! Love those raindrops!

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  13. What a beautiful Spring tag Alison, great the background and lovely teardrops.

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  14. So great to have you designing with us this week, Alison. Your tag is fantastic. I especially love the raindrops. Thanks for sharing this beauty with our visitors!

    Hugs,
    Linda

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  15. Beautiful work Alison, the raindrops are fantastic! Anne xx

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