This week's Opus Gluei challenge is to do something related to food..... and I was thinking, eat it, cook it, prepare it, shop for it, dine out etc etc etc but I've become obsessed with ATCs lately because they satisfy the creative bit of me that wants to make something using papers and bits and pieces. Having said that, there are almost NO bits OR pieces on either of these. So out with the cookbooks and in with the scissors. Who needs to eat anyway?
Both these cut-outs are from decoupage paper that always has so many images on it that there are hundreds to go round. I went off on a fruit theme for a year or two and every piece of paper made me hungry just to look at it. Have to find the big platter I made once, covered with cherries and several dozen coats of varnish. A story for another time....
I fixed both shapes to black paper and re-cut each image with a small border, then fixed them to their backgrounds with felt pads so they have a second shadow. The grapes have had their bloom emphasised by SU Crystal Effects, and they're mounted on a roughly torn piece of handmade blue paper and a black ATC. The apple and cherries have a triangle cut from a scrap of La Creme added to their black card.
