colour challenge

Over at fripperies and butterflies the colour challenge for August 15th - Sept 14th is based around one of my favourite flowers - the Sunflower.

 

This time I didn't want to do a card, I wanted to do something different. So I ended up doing a journal page for my ring bound notebook I purchased (going cheap) to pop all my crafty stuff in, so I could keep a better track of challenges, cards etc.

 

Fate dealt her hand when I visited a blog I haven't been to for simply yonks - I decided to visit Lilac 'n' Lavender and the latest post featured sunflowers so used the lovely designs as my base and played around with Craft Artist and inks.

 

I used the sunflowers from here and the background for the postcard from here and the sunflower image from here

 

 

                                          

journal page

 

I changed the size of the image to fit my page, leaving a little border so if I  rip the page out when the journal is full I can then use it somewhere else. (this is me thinking ahead for once *lol*) In CAP, I dimmed the colour down so it wasn't as bright then printed it off.

 

 

                                         

page without postcard

 

I like the over all effect but I could have stamped the sentiment higher. When I printed it out, for some reason my printer decided to 'line' some areas, so I got round those areas by extra smudging with the ink. The middle of the sunflowers were especially bad so I ended up sticking my finger in black pigment ink and fingerprinting the middles which, happily, mimicked the texture of actual sunflower hearts. Using bronze and black pigment inks I smudged away to give it a faded/vintage look. (Also smudged the white page so it would match)

For the pocket I folded over a doily (Dovecraft Floral Muse) and glued down the sides, the bit of lace covered the top nicely, then I just had to find a butterfly which went with the color tones.

 

 

                         

postcard

 

I'd found this quote before I visited Lilac n Lavender - fate again! Using CAP I cut out and resized the stem of sunflowers turning them into each corner to make a border, I then cropped the main sunflower image and dimmed that to make a centre piece, over which I wrote the saying. Printed it out and stuck it to the front of one of my many vintage postcards, the back says

 

Dear Madeline

Wishing you many happy returns on your birthday. With love to all.

From

Aunt Louise

 

post mark - Sept 1931 @ 11.30pm Plaistow E13

 

entering in Fripperies and Butterflies on FaceBook.

Butterfly journal

This post is a first for me, two firsts actually - a few weeks ago I won Mrs A's butterfly challenge and part of the prize is you get to pick a 'letter' for an upcoming challenge and then become the Guest Designer for it.

I picked the letter X, mostly because I was intrigued to what it could be. Thankfully it turned out that Mrs A had been sneaky with this, and it actually related to a colour:

X fro Xanthine =  The yellow colouring matter found in certain plants as in Yellow Madder.
(Madder is from the Genus Rubia and has small yellow flowers, whorled leaves and a reddish brown root.)

Yellow..... I can do yellow!

So I wanted to do something special for my slot as GD and I decided to alter a composition/notebook, something which I love seeing but have never done, anyhoo I ended up using a hardbacked, elasticated notebook which had yellow edged pages - the elastic was yellow as well.

Perfect.

I decorated a few pages with images, a few with stamped quotes and a few pages I used Butterfly punches on, which were given to me from a friends mum's friend who had stopped crafting due to illness.

I didn't want to fill it too much (it was hard, I kept finding bits n bobs which would have been perfect to go in) as I wanted Mrs A to be able to use it, if she wanted too.

Just realised the elastic is not round the journal in the photo.

I stuck the postcard images onto handwritten vintage postcards, I have about 150, long story not going there, for a lovely personal touch. Imagine reading a note/or letter sent nearly 100 years ago.

 

front page -  Debbi Moore images

 

Tattered Lace butterfly die

Debbi Moore sentiment

picture from prize goody bag

postcard image from Lunagirl 'Butterfly cards'

 

tag image from Ephemeras' Vintage Garden

 

tuck spot paper Do Crafts

image from the Graphics Fairy

 

image from googled search

 

paper from Debbi Moore

tag image from EVG

 

paper from Antique Pinks pack

Postcard image from Fripperies and Butterflies

 

tuck spot paper doCrafts

image from Lunagirls 'Butterfly cards'

 

tag image from EVG

 

can't remember where this image came from

 

 

back page - Debbi Moore embellishments

Very pleased with the result, I will probably do some more in the New Year.

Looking forward to seeing everyone's take on the letter X over on Butterfly Challenge blog

Amanda