I had a great time playing with my latest challenge over at Get It Scrapped. A group of us each created a page with an image made out of “flat geometry”, a current trend in design. Basically we are trying to show dementia and form with two dimensional geometric shapes. I decided to add a rocket using flat geometry to my layout that was leftover from sprig break of 2013. I am back tracking and trying to fill in some gaps in my scrapbooks and maybe get a little caught up even. It is a lofty goal even if it remains just a goal. Here is a close up of the rocket:
I colored strips of paper using Copic markers so that I could get a nice value range in my blue hue, then I cut them all into triangles and quadrilaterals, leaving them in little piles of similar color. I sketched out a rocket shape on a scratch piece of cardstock and cut it out then glues all my little pieces onto the rocket base, filling it in. I tried to use value cues to show the cylinder shape of the rocket body, and the cone of the nose. You can see the flames that I created on the full layout below:
Blast Off by Michelle Houghton | Supplies: cardstock; American Crafts, patterned paper; Pink Paislee, Heidi Swapp and SEI, letters; Pebbles, ink; Zig and Copic
I had set all the papers aside with photos a while back so I had supplies I was hoping to use already to go. The rocket was the perfect piece to tie it all to gather with a wonderful unique handmade touch!
Check out all the flat geometry looks HERE
Happy scrapping!
