Saturday, March 12, 2016

We're not in Kansas anymore

A fun event hosted at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity, We're not in Kansas anymore.
Lovers of The Wizard of Oz, you will enjoy seeing the makes by the DT I'm sure :)

Here is my make and at the end of this post is a link to all the other DT makes.

Who is my fave character in the Wizard of Oz ? Dorothy ? Tin man ? The Wizard ? I dont know ... so many to choose from. But there is one group of critters who don't get much airtime, so I decided to honour them .... The Flying Monkeys. Here is my ATC : 


This is one of the monkeys from Three Monkeys by Lost Coast Designs. This one is the speak-no-evil. Its open to interpretation obviously, but I personally think he's laughing about all this freaking people out business ... LOL.  He is stamped in Memento black ink and coloured with copics and gel pen. I fussy cut him.

The tremendously large and imposing wings (arent they gorgeous) are from Carmen's Veranda. I stamped them onto velum with stazon and clear embossed them. I coloured them white using a faber castell artist pitt pen, then turned them over, to get this more subtle look. I fussy cut them. And glued them to the monkey.

The background was painted with acrylic paint, then I added white lines and dots, and edged it in white. I glued on the flying money and cut off the section of wing that overhung the ATC. Finally I typed the words on my typewriter.

Hope you will pop over to the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity to see the other makes, and visit Lost Coast Designs or Carmen's Veranda online stores :)

But before you rush over to the store .. check out the rest of the inspiration from the Design Team : 



11 comments:

  1. This is so great from the sentiment to those fantastic wings! Love his expression :) Awesome xx

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  2. Funtastic. Love your conversion of the monkey with those big beautiful wings. The background is gorgeous. Lovely ATC. Want to swap? Hugz

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  3. hahhaha love this one Nikki, so funny adore that sentiment. Great Oz spin!~kim

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  4. HILARIOUS, Nikki!! I LOVE this ATC! I think this monkey wouldn't dare speak evil about his beloved Wicked Witch boss-lady!! LOL ;) :) LOVE your quote!! This ATC really does make me laugh out loud!! Just Fabulous!! XOXO-Shari

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  5. Oh my my my myyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.... this is hysterical Nikki - hehehehehe - soooooo LOVE this creation. What a great sentiment -heheheheh!!! This is PRICELESSLY WONDERFUL!!! Still giggling!!! xj.

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  6. I always thought there was a mischievious side to those Flying Monkeys - you've certainly captured that spirit here. Love him, might just see if he'll drop me off at the next stop - they're retty big wings, gotta be good for a ride :)

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  7. I thoroughly enjoyed this outside the Oz box take on the theme, it just cracks me up! Well done!

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  8. LOL Love how you paired the wings with the monkey. Awesomely freaky!!

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  9. LOL!!! love your flying monkey.... perfect stamp combo and yes I think a lot of people have been freaked out by the monkeys! GREAT ATC!!!!

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  10. Love your take on OZ....don't want to meet those monkeys!

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  11. Absolutely fabulous, loving every bit of it. The sentiment, wings, monkey, colors ... so perfect.

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