UKS Screen Swap

Amidst all the mayhem of the UKS Matchbox Shrine Swap was the equally mad thread for the Screen Swap - this was based on Linda Elbourne's screen which was on the cover of Craft Stamper March 2012 - and very pretty it was too!

Again it was to be a direct swap and my partner was Viv1 who specified an open theme - which is actually harder than it sounds because you have no idea whether they will like or 'get' whatever it is you have made for them if it's for a theme they have not specified...

...so I played it safe... amidst all the thread chatter it was becoming apparent that there is a definite hatred towards one particular member of The Beatles by various members of the swap... so using the anonymous guise of "The Swap Fairy" I checked to see if she had any specific dislikes - and got the answer "anything goes" back...

Right sez I... what have I got to hand... the screen is made from 4 chipboard panels measuring 8"x4" with a curved top... cut them out no problem... ahh there's a roll of music manuscript, thats a good start, so cut and stuck that onto each panel, and just because it was my favourite colour combination at the time, I used Spiced Marmalade and Dried Marigold distress inks on the panels, which were then backed with papers from one of TH's paper stacks.

So music is obviously the base theme here - what to do next?

Running this past my fella (who does come up with some great ideas or even great jumping-off points) he said I could do with something where the number 4 (for the 4 panels) merged with music... and about 30 minutes later we'd come up with the idea of using the artwork from the cover of The Beatles "Abbey Road" album - where they are crossing the road using the zebra crossing? One Beatle per screen, in silhouette, in the correct order, and even the zebra crossing kinda lines up too....

The figures are layered onto plain cardstock which was again coloured with distress inks, and the stars, music notes and treble clefs were cut from black card using my Cricut Mini. The 4 panels were then laced together using brown organza ribbon thru holes punched with my Bind-It-All.

Here's close-ups of each panel - just don't ask me to name each Beatle - I'm far too young!

Thankfully Viv liked the screen so I was able to breathe a big sigh of relief - must admit I did enjoy doing it and may do one for myself at some point - I mean, I still have several sets of hand-cut Beatles silhouettes knocking around...