October 2021 Monthly Muse - Week3 - Scandinavian Folklore

This will be different, at least for me. Looks like fun, though.

 

You know what? I have more that falls into this category than I realized. I don't have the Becca kit you showed, but I have some of her kits. I also have Lynn's kit that's similar to Jule. I'm playing right now. This will be fun Dalis.

I love your page!

 

I hope this is in the spirit of your challenge, Dalis @Dalis



October Monthly Muse - Folk Art | The Lilypad (the-lilypad.com)

 

Same here! This will be fun.

 

So I was inspired by the simplicity of design especially vertically across. I have covid and lock down in mind when I made this.

Hope

 

@NBK-Design Nicole also has some awesome folk art designs. The screen shot here really doesn't capture all that is included:

https://the-lilypad.com/store/Mindfulness-choose-from-different-options.html

Here is the artsy bits & stickers pack:

 

And these are from @NBK-Design 's Over the Rainbow collection: https://the-lilypad.com/store/nbk-Over-the-Rainbow-Options.html



And here are clusters from the same collection:


While these digi elements are embroidered, they still remind me of tole painting. My DH's maternal grandmother was Hungarian, and when she visited Hungary (as she did a few times during the time I was blessed knowing her), she brought me back some embroidered treasures in this style. Here is a link explaining some Hungarian embroidery folk art.

https://www.folk-art-hungary.com/20...ference-between-matyo-and-kalocsa-embroidery/

 

Exactly with those Hungarian blouses I grew up and i bought me some years ago. I adore them.
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Here's mine

 

I am Scandinavian - my father was Swedish and my mother was Danish. I have some ideas for this one!!!

 

I found an image of an art piece that we used to have hanging on the wall, and I remembered the old prayer that we used to say with my Swedish grandparents.

I hope this fulfills the requirements. I don't typically buy "cartoon" or hand drawn pieces, so instead of using the art style, I used the mirror technique with elements that I had in my stash.

Credits:
Little Butterfly Wings M3 Sept 21 Element Add ons: blue flower
Little Butterfly Wings M3 Mar 21 Element Add ons: orange foliage, butterfly
May Messages to Mom Collab: cluster, foliage, curly ribbon, background paper.

 

I am Danish, so that easy, but I had not realized how similar it is to Mexican art , It really is -in style. Not so much in colour, but some of the styles could be interchanged . and no one would know LOL So I decided to do a page about that. .
Thanks for the challenge

 

As soon as I unzipped the patterned paper of this collection, I remembered this challenge. Not sure if I stayed on its spirit when I added all those elements!

 

My take on the challenge - I was inspired by nature motifs (flowers and animals) and use of repeated patterns/shapes that are nearly mirror image. I realized Allison Pennington is really good at making flower based papers that have that rhythm and flow. I also realize that using patterned papers is not my forte - but I am trying more and more to use them.