Mistletoe and Wine

 

This Thursday It's All About. . .Mistletoe and Wine!

Now that all the holiday movies are starting to make their way into the theaters and each one is vying for its share of the box office profits, when I ran across some old movie posters, I just had to spice them up for the holidays!  Bette Davis and Paul Muni's characters from "Borderline" (above) make up what is probably one of the more unlikely couples to be found under the mistletoe, but with the right attitude, and a little bit of wine.....who knows?  LOL! 

   

Bogie and Bacall are a little more believable for a holiday romance! 

I digitally altered both posters, removing all of the words except the titles, and re-arranging the colors a bit.  The mistletoe is a .png file from a collection of mine, and I'm not quite sure of the source.  Both are printed onto matte photo paper, cut and arranged on the cards.  The wine bottle and glasses are cut from a holiday catalog,  and everything is mounted onto cream colored card, and tied up for Christmas with red satin ribbon and gold lame.  The black dots were punched from cardstock scrap and glued into place.

The Christmas Pig was found in the same catalog as the wine and the glasses.  I carefully clipped him out, placed him onto the card and accented him with some green dots.  I couldn't resist that expression on his face, and with the addition of a little mistletoe, he really looks to me as if he's on his way to present his lady with a nice Cabernet...that wistful, hopeful look in his eye makes me think he's hoping for an evening of amore!  There's just something about him, even with the beret and the necktie, that makes him seem more Italian than French, so the red, white, and green are more than just the colors of the season, they are also the colors of Italy.

The background is done with several layers of acrylic paint.  All of the elements for the tag, with the exception of Signore de Maiale (Mr. Pig), are off-cuts and leftovers from other projects.  Even the tag itself is a recycled price tag that was on a sweater I purchased a year or so ago, so truly this tag is "green" in more ways than one!  Therefore, it will go into the Arty Girlz Recycling Challenge, as well!

The mistletoe is another print of the same clipart I used above, this time carefully cut and glued into place instead of digitally layered and blended.

There's a wonderful prize at the This Thursday blog that you won't want to miss out on, so hurry on over and take a peek!   Susie has donated a great collection of clear stamps, so be sure to get in on the draw, and good luck!!

Have a great day, Everyone!

Comments

[Julie]

Fantastic tag Barbara

Thanks for continuing to support the Arty Girlz challenge I love to see what you have made :) xx

[Galina]

Colourful and amusing! Love the dramatic reds.

[Heather Robinson]

I have missed so much not visiting for a while. I have loved meandering through all the gifts you've been receiving day by day lately. I also was so excited by your use of movie posters. Brilliant work.

[Rosie]

Hi Barbara! What great samples... I especially love Signore di Maiale - makes me giggle just typing his name!!
What wonderful gifts you are receiving - I love the diversity of them - lucky lady! xoxoxo