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

 

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Taking it Nautical

Card done for the latest gecko galz blog challenge.

Have used this image before but I kinda like it, its very serene and has a 'would love to live there' vibe.

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would write more but am really really tired, will update later xx

V is for Vase and/or Vanilla

After yesterdays ongoing card saga, I decided to do a quicker one today, I had already been through my pile of Decoupage sheets (a friend of a friend gave me a carrier bag full, piled up its about 2 inches thick!) and found some likely images to match the challenge over at the Butterfly blog. (Although I didn't actually use it for decoupage)

Once I picked the one I wanted, I realised that a pack of A5 card with envelopes, given to me as part of  The 7 days of Summer Swap over on Cardexchange) would match the colour scheme, plus it was textured card which went well with the mosaic pattern on the image.

All I had too do was die cut some butterflies using Tattered Lace Mini Butterflies set, grab some gems and Spellbinders Happy Birthday sentiment and I had a card.

Very quick and simple card to do, doing this card as prompted me do another similar card, this time in blue -  but not using the main image but one of the decoupage levels. Watch this space *lol*

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Anything Goes

This card took me hours!!!! And all because I wasn't happy with the right hand side....so I decided to add a flower...... dropped the bead box and lost the last matching flower for the middle....made a sentiment and stuck that on flower, looked naff so pulled it off......then chopped it up and stuck that on, looked naffer.......did another flower & sentiment, ditto.....did another flower......back in the bead box - found another white flower so then pulled middle off of one of the flowers, stuck the white on that and then stuck the original onto the new flower.  Phew!

And for the love of all things Craft, why is it when you want a gem to stick exactly where you put it, it keeps dropping off but when you accidently drop it on your work in the completely worse place possible it sticks like you've used the strongest superglue EVER???

 

patterned velum by Laurence Llewelyn Bowen

white flowers coloured by Almond & Pastel Blue promarkerx

Dovecraft 'Floral Muse' doily

image from Lunagirl 'Butterfly Cards'

gems, flowery middles, lace and pins from stash

 

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New beginnings

Over on my facebook page, I occasionally select a random photo of a crafty make, anyhow I popped one up of a card I did for a friend who was leaving her job, but wasn't sure what she wanted to do, so I choose 'new beginnings' as my sentiment, a couple of years ago.

Off of the photo, I was asked to do another, luckily I still had bits of the same paper to hand, so I jigged another one up, only slightly different this time.

 

 

inner

Floral

Floral is this months challenge over at Digitally Sweet (link at the bottom of the page) but I was struggling with my chosen project....decided to scroll through all my files again to see if I'd missed anything I could use and totally changed my project. As you do *lol*

So now, I have a 100% digital 5x5 envelope front.

Gecko Galz - Coquette Design Kit paper 3

Gecko Galz - Ephemera Fun design sheet

Gecko Galz - In the Garden of Tomorrow image

 

I digitally cut out the bird/flower image from the Ephemera Fun sheet and placed the image in the bottom corner, did the same with the pink rose and copied it once and placed them amongst the flowers, again did the same with the yellow butterfly and copied it again placing round the image till it looked right.

Placed the music sheet as my background, picked a suitable paper and put that over the background, changing the colour by matching it to the cream in the birds wing and then played round with the transparency tool till it was light enough too be able to see the music underneath. Used a punch to punch through both papers, so when it is printed you will have a clear space for the address.

 

 

 

entering in: digitally sweet = Floral

 

Colour me this

The Fripperies and Butterflies colour challenge doesn't have many players, in fact the last 2 months has seen me enter on my own, now I don't mind winning *g* but when you're Billy No Mates, its a bit sucky. I declined the prize pack by the way.

My make for July 15th  - Aug 14th challenge on this colour scheme:

 

 

Is a digital postcard done using a Gecko Galz image from Seaside Beauties 2 design sheet, back of a postcard from Google search, sea shell border from Google search.

 

I coloured matched the sun and the sentiment from the colour chart.