It’s Tuesday, so it’s time for my Creative Squad to share a project with you with this month’s theme: “My City Speaks to Me”. Throughout the month, the team has been using my new Urban Scribble Foam Stamp, Rubber Stamp and Stencil Set to interpret the theme and to share with us what their hometown or city is all about. We want to know what makes it special, vibrant, and important! This month, our Creative Squad has taken us on a trip to their city!
Today we have a really fun art journal page from Michelle Rydell. Her colorful interpretation of the theme is like an insider’s travel guide to Minneapolis :) Thanks for sharing all the good spots, Michelle!
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Up until a few years ago, I lived in the city of Minneapolis my whole adult life. Now, I live in the country, just outside of the city, but Minneapolis will always have a piece of my heart. I love this month’s theme because it gave me a chance to document that!
First I created a background in my art journal, using black on the bottom to represent city streets, and blue on top to represent sky. I used white paint with the Urban Scribble stencil to create texture on the streets, and clouds in the sky.
The city is broken up into neighborhoods, so I decided to represent that with a variety of colors and patterns, using painting underpapers as my substrate. I stamped the cling stamp on two different color schemes, and the foam stamp on a third. Then I cut them out…
I pasted them onto my page in overlapping rows, and drew little banners on sticker paper to label the neighborhoods. I also typed up the names of some of my favorite places in each neighborhood, printed them onto sticker paper and stuck them on to corresponding buildings. I colored over the building names with tombow markers to blend them in a bit.
Here’s my finished piece:
And a few closeups…
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I absolutely love how Michelle used the Urban Scribble stamp to create rows for different neighborhoods, and her colors are so vibrant against the black stamping, the whole design really pops. The overall idea is a super clever way to share with us the hotspots in Minneapolis!
Besides the supplies listed below, Michelle also used newsprint underpapers with a variety of paints and sprays on them:
And maybe you will even play along -we would love to see how you interpret the theme – email me how you used my stencils and stamps with the theme and email me an image – I would love to share what you did at the end of the month!
See you next Tuesday for the another project from the Creative Squad, with a brand new theme for the month of May.
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P.S. Stampendous is doing a blog hop this week and you can win one of the stamp sets. Simply comment on this post or their blog post in order to be eligible to win!
Check in with their blog all week long to see some fun projects with my foam stamp sets – my creative squad is posting a lot of new projects this Friday- so stay tuned :)
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Comments (39)
Tracy Moloney
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FABULOUS pages Michelle!!!
LOVE the colours and dimension of your “old town”
THANK YOU for sharing :)
Tracy from Australia
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Kate B
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This is fantastic – so creative and colorful!
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nancy L
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Awesome, love the cityscape
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Sarah P.
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This looked like a lot of fun. The talent is awesome.
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Jade Sutton
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Your page is beautiful. I love how you have layered the city to create the different areas.
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myriam Le Blanc
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Wow! I love it! The colors are so vibrant!
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Miriam Prantner
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Really love these pages and the different layers of the buildings and the colors, so fun!
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Joela
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That is incredible
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Amanda Rhodes
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I love the neon colors!
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Darcy
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How fun!
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Teresa Godines #6857
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Wonderful project
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Rachel Alexander
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Love the colours, such a fun page. Rachel
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kirsty vittetoe
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I have a soft spot for city scene, lived in and visited many, LOVE this!
(Las Vegas)
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Greta H
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Very creative–just beautiful!
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