Challenge of Music

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Today is the day, time to reveal what we've made for Erin's Challenge of Music. I can't begin to tell you the problems I've had getting this done these last few days (on top of having been in a bit of a rut lately, creatively and otherwise), but at last I've got something to show.

It took a long time to choose which song to work with. Should I go with the 80's music I grew up with on the radio? The early 90's music I've partially forgotten until they pop up on VH1? The songs from school that I've sung hundreds of times and mark the excitement of summer break or longing for christmas break? Or some of the bands and singers I listen to now, perhaps choosing someone I don't think that many (at least outside Scandinavia) knows of?

In the end, I settled for another type of nostalgia as my sis and I one evening (once more) searched YouTube for intros to all the tv shows we remembered from childhood. After looking trough a dozen or so videos we stumbled upon the serene intro and outro to Skymningssagor, "Twilight fairy tales". Skymningssagor was a children's television series that aired October 1988 through March 1990.


Intro

Outro

I wanted to capture the atmosphere; the simple melody, the lightness, the colours of dusk, the serenity. At first I was working on a totally different idea, but it had to be scrapped yesterday when I couldn't find a good way to finish the design. Frustration. What to do? So little time, so little materials that seemed to work with the images that popped into my mind. Went through half my stash and in the end settled for some thin (7 mm wide) silk ribbons in periwinkle blue and a variegated rose-purple. But what more? Some ideas had to be scrapped due to the fast approaching deadline. After a while I instead started to focus on a focal.

I found a matte transparent violet plastic flower button (38 mm) and looking for something to layer it with found a pink MOP flower button that I had sprayed with a matte lacquer. Finally something that could work as an eye-catcher! I like how the mother-of-pearl gives a subtle glow to the plastic (a bit like the Polaris Polsweet beads I showed a week or two ago). A brooch back was attached to the layered flower so it can be used as both a pendant and a brooch.

For this image I added the silk ribbons to turn the brooch into a necklace. Don't know how the pic looks -- it was tricky trying to get the right colours in both the flower and silk in the photo... Not too happy with the look right now so it'll have to be altered a bit later.I'm also thinking of adding some seed beads to the centre of the flower, a nice detail that I totally forgot in my haste to finish in time. Hopefully it doesn't look too bad though.

And so... That's it, my contribution to the Challenge of Music and my -- somewhat sidetracked -- interpretation of a song that brings back memories of childhood, children's books and beadtime stories to me. I hope you like it and be sure to visit all the other participants too -- of cause including the fab hostess, Erin of TresoriTrovati.

1. Erin Prais-Hintz (hostess)
2. Marcie Abney
3. Christine Altmiller
4. Elisabeth Auld
5. LJ B
6. Lori Bowring Michaud
7. Shannon Chomanczuk
8. Cece Cormier
9. Jenny Davies-Reazor
10. Malin de Koning
11. Beth Emery
12. Michelle Escano-Caballero
13. Erin Fickert-Rowland
14. Therese Frank
15. Amy Freeland
16. Tanya Goodwin
17. Stephani Gorman
18. Amy Grass
19. Beth Hemmila
20. Kristina Johansson (YOU ARE HERE)
21. Jennifer Justman
22. Tari Kahrs
23. Susan Kennedy
24. Ema Kilroy
25. Kathleen Lange Klik
26. Kirsi Luostarinen
27. Paige Maxim
28. Beth McCord
29. Natalie McKenna
30. Alice Peterson
31. Cat Pruitt
32. Bobbie Rafferty
33. Johanna Rhodes
34. Cynthia Riggs
35. Sally Russick
36. Sarah Sequins
37. Amy Severino
38. Staci Smith
39. Kristen Stevens
40. Lola Surwillo
41. Stefanie Teufel
42. Sandi Volpe
43. Holly Westfall
44. Shaiha Williams

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