Sunday 8 October 2023

The Monolith

This is the fourth and final page that I am making from Vigelandsparken, a huge sculpture park in Oslo which was all designed by one man - Gustav Vigeland. We're at the highest point in the park now, with The Monolith which is 14m tall and made up of 121 intertwined human figures.

This page follows the same plan as the last two - a grey 12x12 cardstock base with a slightly smaller yellow-stencilled white cardstock square in the middle and a band of blue arrows paper across the page.

I used two large photos this time, both 4x6 but in opposite orientations, which led to me putting them in a large block with my title and journalling in the open space. Below them are photos of four of the 36 smaller sculptures, each at around 3" square.


Supplies
Cardstock - Craft UK, The Craft Place, Bazzill
Paper - Pinkfresh Studio Tourist Mode, Pinkfresh Studio Out and About, Shimelle Never Grow Up
Letters - Creativity Inspired
Stickers - Pinkfresh Studio, 49 & Market
Acetate Filmstrip - 49 & Market
Puffy Stars - Elle's Studio
Glitter Tape - The Works
Enamel Dots - Pinkfresh Studio, My Mind's Eye
Ink - Ranger
Mist - Mister Huey's

Tools
Vicki Boutin Fernwood Stencil
Big Shot & Little B Arrow Die
Woodware Postage Stamp Punch
Woodware Scalloped Circle Punch
X-Cut Circle Punch

Thursday 5 October 2023

The Fountain

This is page three of a series of four from Vigelandsparken in Oslo (scroll back for the first two) and shares a similar design to the last one so that it's clear they all belong together. That design starts with a 12x12 sheet of grey cardstock with a  slightly smaller square of yellow-stencilled white cardstock in the middle and a band of blue arrows paper with my supporting photos. This time I just have two 3x4 supporting photos so I've run the blue band vertically and double-matted the photos.

My main photos are a 4x6 of the whole fountain area and a 4x4.5 close-up of the fountain itself. I matted them in a large block with my title in the space beside the smaller photo. The smaller photos are two of the twenty tree groups which surround The Fountain depicting all the various stages of life.


Supplies
Cardstock - Craft UK, Bazzill, Stampin' Up!
Paper - Pinkfresh Studio Tourist Mode, Pinkfresh Studio Out and About, Pinkfresh Studio Life Right Now, Shimelle Never Grow Up
Letters - October Afternoon
Stickers - Pinkfresh Studio
Glitter Tape - The Works
Enamel Dots - Pinkfresh Studio
Ink - Ranger
Mist - Mister Huey's

Tools
Vicki Boutin Fernwood Stencil
Big Shot & Dovecraft Tag Die

Monday 2 October 2023

The Bridge

This is the second page of four from the Vigelandsparken sculture installation in Oslo. The first was an overview, and this one is for the first main area - The Bridge - which has 58 bronze sculptures arrange around a bridge across the lake.

All these pages are going to be photo-heavy and I'll be using similar designs to reinforce the notion that they are parts of one whole. Each one starts with 12x12 grey cardstock, with a large square of yellow-stencilled white card in the centre and a wide band of blue arrows paper with the supporting photos. Those photos are all portrait-oriented on this page; they were originally 3"x4" in size before I trimmed them a bit, matted them on orange cardstock and overlapped them to fit the 12" width of the page.


Above those, I have my main photos, a 4x6 of one side of The Bridge and a smaller one of a sculpture known as Sinnataggen (The Angry Boy). I used the negative part of an acetate frame cut in two at each side of the block and filled the right side with punched shapes and stickers.

Supplies
Cardstock - Craft UK, Bazzill, Stampin' Up!
Paper - Pinkfresh Studio Tourist Mode, Pinkfresh Studio Life Right Now, Pinkfresh Studio Out and About
Letters - Doodlebug
Acetate - 49 & Market
Puffy Stars - Elle's Studio
Glitter Tape - The Works
Enamel Dots - Pinkfresh Studio
Ink - Ranger
Mist - Mister Huey's

Tools
Vicki Boutin Fernwood Stencil
Big Shot
Dovecraft Label Die
Little B Arrow Die
Woodware Postage Stamp Punch
X-Cut Circle Die