Less is More - #310 COLOUR

The Less is More challenge them this week is a colour challenge...OMBRE (meaning gradual shading /shadow of one colour to another)...

hmm...not sure if what I've made really shows gradual too well in the photos, sorry, but in real life the flowers really blend from a soft pink to quite a deep claret. I really wrestled with this card as it kept going 'wrong' or at least not how I envisaged it to be. And I thought I'd never hear myself say this but an ancient sheet of peel-offs really gave me the final touches that I was searching for. Who-da-thunk it?! :) 

The black 'smudge' appearance on the stems is part of the 'In Stitches' stamp design, representing areas of thread. .

You can see the richness of the flowers as the colour gradually gets darker below.

I tried colouring the house...nope, looked wrong, coloured the fascia of the house...nope...so I left it colourless. 

Stamps used are all by STAMPOTIQUE ORIGINALS. 

CAROL'S FLOWER SMALL

IN STITCHES (for flower stems)

STITCHED HOUSES (just one of them!)

HAPPY NEW HOUSE!

Always love to play along with Less Is More...such a challenge keeping that clean fresh look.

STAMPOTIQUE Favourite Quote challenge

The theme for the current two week challenge over at Stampotique Designer's Challenge blog is 

FAVOURITE QUOTE.

The reason I chose World All Her Own (Stampotique Originals) is that it is very adaptable and VERY useful with any of the nature based stamps. It can be used as intended or cut up in to two, or more, using elements of the quote.

The full quote stamp is 

" It was the sweetest,

most mysterious-looking place 

 anyone could imagine...

And she felt she had found

a world all her own."

I used Stampotique stamps:

JILL PENNEY

MEDIUM BEE w/tiny bee 

(just the wings)

GIANT DAISY 

(the woodblock of this stamp  measures 5"/12.5cm across

WORLD ALL HER OWN 

(the second half of the words of the stamp)

I created the background by smearing  green acrylic over some floral printed paper, then getting a piece of floral laser cut paper and using it as I would a stencil/template and spraying over it creating a painty soft flower effect . 

I attached Medium Bee wings to the Jill Penney girl and placed her onto the Giant Daisy that I had previously  painted a stem for, cut out the flower with new stem and coloured with watercolour paints. Finish by adding gem stones for a bit of twinkle.

Flower Power on Paperbag Studios

The challenges have started again over on Paperbag Studios. Roben Marie on the Paperbag Blog says:

Hey!

It is Stamp Challenge time again! I think we will focus on flowers for this month. Use one of our flower stamps or add a fabric or paper flower to your creation! We want to see your best take on flowers!!

To be included in the challenge, please leave a link to your project in the comments of this post(over on Paperbag Studios blog) by August 1 to be entered! Have fun!

Winner will receive a $10 gift certificate good toward Paperbag Studios goodies!!

Have a blessed day!

So....set with the challenge I put this card together making flowers from things that weren't designed to be flowers if you get my drift :0)

These Art Deco style rose type flowers were made up from elements from the Stitched and Tied plate shown below.



The main stamped image is 'Way We See', along side Spiral Bound (also available in CLING)and Sweet (available individually wood mounted or on the Little Feet plate.

Below is a close up shot of the layering of the 'flowers'.




All stamps by Paperbag Studios available direct from the USA or here in the UK at Happy Daze.

Please pop along to the challenge and have a go at winning the gift certificate by entering a piece of artwork. There are some more examples in the challenge blog post from members of the Paperbag Studios Stamping Design Team- I have a Stampbord piece shown using real daisies which some of you may not have seen before. The daisy stampbord was made some time ago (hence the style change) but still remains one of the few pieces I still like to look at. That little girl is so adorable.



Thankyou for stopping by. Have a great weekend. Hope its not too hot where you are....I've just started to melt here in my little room and its only 9.30am.