Sunday, 23 March 2014

Craft Barn - Q&L 6 - Travel/Flowers

Back for a second post today, this time with the Craft Barn Quotes and Lyrics challenge - where as you see, the theme for your quote or lyrics, is Travel and/or Flower... I chose the latter and a quote by Henri Matisse (which I also happen to have on a stamp!)
started by painting the paper with Chalk Fresco, then sponging distress ink through the Prima stencil (Donna Downey) using shaded lilac, so it would hide in the page - making you look for the flowers, like the quote will say...
Used a selection of Jo Firth-Young Paperarsty flowers
and my stamp which is from one of the new Lin Brown sets.
in with colours - Fresco paints apart from for the grass, which was a green water colour pencil, then used the edge of a wet, flat paintbrush to create the grass.

added shading by using two shades of paint, or two layers of the same colour for depth.








Since I saw the theme this morning, the link has disappeared at the blog site, and I also hope I'll be allowed to enter with my plural 'flowers' not flower, I wrote it down incorrectly... still, as one of the DT has used it in the plural, I hope that's ok! (I've been back to check the rules, and plurals are allowed!)

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28 comments:

  1. TwinkleToes2day23 March 2014 at 16:40

    Visiting fromthe craft barn - Fabulous layout and colours used. I like your quote very much. :o)

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  2. Bleubeard and Elizabeth23 March 2014 at 17:23

    I adore this. Somehow I knew you would go with flowers. And you did a perfect job of it, too. You color those flowers SO well, and the way you painted the grass is perfect.

    I was at the CB site about two hours ago, and all I saw was the linky that goes to their (the inlinkz) homepage. I left a comment, but it didn't show up when I refreshed, so I'll have to wait till the link is up. In the meantime, I'll enjoy what you made.

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  3. sam21ski23 March 2014 at 17:32

    You're getting as bad as me not reading stuff properly, or not at all - lol

    Glad you are allowed plurals though as it would of been such a shame for your fabulous double spread to of been disallowed

    Sam xxx

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  4. Mooffie23 March 2014 at 19:09

    JOFY's popular! Not surprising tho - lovely pages!

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  5. Anonymous23 March 2014 at 21:00

    Helen, it's beautiful. Gorgeous colours & I love the flowers in the background.

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  6. Words and Pictures23 March 2014 at 21:04

    Love these pages - they already looked beautiful at the subtle smoky stage early on, and then those brilliant touches of colour really snap them into life - gorgeous! So glad plurals are allowed!!
    Alison xx

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  7. Deborah Wainwright23 March 2014 at 21:13

    Great Pages Helen. Really pretty colours loving those stamps xx

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  8. Anonymous23 March 2014 at 23:39

    You must be on the starting blocks as soon as the words go up!!! Wonderfully coloured pages and a lovely quote too.
    Lynn x

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  9. Krisha24 March 2014 at 03:57

    Oh Gads Helen! These pages are so pretty. I have those stamp to but don't do them the justice you have.

    Great work! and the rules say you can use plurals (grin)

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  10. Anonymous24 March 2014 at 06:07

    Hi Helen. Thank you for your lovely comment on mine. I love your Journal pages and it just goes to show how wonderful these stamps are when they can look so different depending on how they are used and also still look gorgeous. xx

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  11. Virginia24 March 2014 at 07:24

    Oh Helen that's fabulous!

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  12. Lynn Holland24 March 2014 at 20:42

    What a lovely interpretation. The flowers are great. I've got a plan but haven't put it on paper yet

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  13. Canonbury creations24 March 2014 at 23:33

    Love your interpretaion of Flowers Helen and your choice of JOFY stamps, I have them on my wish list:)
    Val x

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  14. Sue Jones25 March 2014 at 07:58

    Wow Beautiful!! Need those stamps too!!

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  15. kaybee25 March 2014 at 08:51

    Great layout, colours and quote. JOFY stamps are perfect for this challenge (though I've yet to get some!).

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  16. craftytrog25 March 2014 at 20:21

    Those flowers are gorgeous Helen, and beautifully coloured! x

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  17. Elaine26 March 2014 at 11:58

    Such a lovely garden. The shaded lilac background is great and the flowers really do stand out!

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  18. Elaine26 March 2014 at 11:58

    Such a lovely garden. The shaded lilac background is great and the flowers really do stand out!

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  19. chrissie26 March 2014 at 12:27

    Wonderful stamping and gorgeous colours on the pages. Love the quote as well

    Chrissie x

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  20. Anonymous28 March 2014 at 18:50

    I must get some of Paperartsy's stamps they are fab, just like your journal page.

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  21. Unknown29 March 2014 at 09:27

    Lovely page and great quote, we should always look for flowers.

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  22. Sarah Anderson30 March 2014 at 22:46

    love this page Helen

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  23. Silvia(Barnie)31 March 2014 at 13:04

    A beautiful spread. The Jofy's are fantastic.

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  24. lena-dailyscrap31 March 2014 at 19:11

    Beautiful spread - love the Jofy stamps!

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  25. Craftymoose Crafts31 March 2014 at 23:34

    This is just lovely! The quote is a good one, and I like how you "hid" some of the flowers in the background.

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  26. BJ2 April 2014 at 13:43

    Love your stamping and colouring in Helen, you are super cool at it. I'm barely functioning today, I'll be off the grid tomorrow too. Ho Hum. BJ

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  27. Maggie2 April 2014 at 15:13

    gorgeous pages love how everything pops from the background great colours.

    MaggieH

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  28. Craftyfield2 April 2014 at 18:30

    JoFy would be proud! Excellent double spread.

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