2016 #21 The Hidden Word {by Gabrielle Price}

2016 Topic 21: Typography, Fonts, Quotes

Hi everyone Gabrielle from Crafty Thoughts here. Tonight I'd like to share with you this evening with a post about hidden words.

I have always been fascinated by the colour blindness tests we used to have at school where a word, symbol or number is hidden amongst coloured dots. Kim Dellow's stylish trees from EKD02 offered the perfect shapes to 'hide' my word in.

Step One: I started by making the backgrounds and, for this project, I needed three! I brayed layers of pink paint onto a piece of card until I was happy with the depth of shading. I applied six layers of paint in total to make sure that the background had lots of interest. I could have added stencilling but as I was about to cut the background into small pieces I felt the layers added enough interest.

Step Two: For the second background I used blues and added a little white as my penultimate layer so the Beach Hut layer would be more visible.

Step Three: My final background was the page in my journal. I used a black journal and added a white layer of paint and then a layer of Tangerine Twist (I LOVE that colour!) I added Banana stencilled petals and dots from PS023 and stencilled numbers (PS021) in Tango.

Step Four: Stamp out lots of the trees onto the pink and blue backgrounds. For the 'hidden' word I chose to use blue so I only stamped out the smaller trees. However on the pink sheet I stamped lots of both sized trees. Then comes the patient bit as you have to cut them all out!

 EKD02

Step Five: Assemble your word and arrange the pink shapes around it. Once you are happy then you can glue them down. I added the sentiment that came with the stamp set to a piece of spare card and doodled around it. I added some Little Black Dress lines with the side of a credit card and some Gold circles as final touches. In case you couldn't read my word I doodled some lines around it - it says 'art'.

I did add a tiny bird - did you spot him?!

I really enjoyed making my homage to the colour blindness test (even though there was a lot of cutting out!) 

Gabrielle 

@FreyaTom

Crafty Thoughts

Wow Gabrielle this is so clever, i honestly couldn't see it at first and then it just popped off the page and made me smile. Fantastic illusion, well done. ~Darcy. 

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