Saturday 28 June 2014

Summer of Colour 4 - week 3

Wow, made it with a day to spare, this week! Welcome to week 3 of Summer of Colour 

The colours this week, are lavender, grey and a splash, smudge or pop of plum


Nice colours, Kristin!

This week, I'm working in a small journal - well notebook really - it's about 5 x 8, a Moleskine notebook.
Decided to use Fresco paint and bravely didn't stick two together for added thickness - no need, got no seepage through at all..

I mixed my own shade of lavender, from Moonlight and Sherbert - the photo doesn't give a great representation of the colours because it's been raining and dull all day, so a bit dark for photography.

 I used Watering Can archival ink to stamp some random script and criss cross images (Paperartsy)
 for my plum accent, I stamped this image by Tim Holtz - had this set for weeks and it's the first time it's seen ink - Plum archival, appropriately enough!!  - on white copy paper, torn and edged with Watering Can archival before gluing it to the middle of the page.
at the bottom, I stamped some flower seed heads (memory box) in the Plum archival.

Entering the Summer of Colour here 



16 comments:

Carmen said...

That stamp is stunning - really love it. Such a gorgeous journal page Helen - weren't the colours this week gorgeous?

Thanks for making me laugh over at mine too :D

Julie Lee said...

I love these colours too! I think you are so good keeping up these contributions to SOC. I'm sure I'd get behind or miss a week! This is really beautiful, I love that stamp. Julie Ann xxx

Words and Pictures said...

Ooh, lovely - love the dragonfly in plum, and obviously I'm a sucker for those lovely meadow grasses. What a pretty page! (And yes, wasn't the weather lousy today!)
Alison xx

Anonymous said...

Fab tag, the dragonfly looks great against the background.

TwinkleToes2day said...

Beautiful page. The stamps are gorgeous! :D

joy said...

A wonderful take on this week's colors, Helen. I love the dragonfly stamp - I have the original Stampers Anonymous wood block one.

brenda said...

Lovely shades of lilacs Helen and love that dragonfly.

Happy Sunday.

B x

Lin said...

Great page Helen..you know I love tat stamp!! the colours are lovely xx

Virginia said...

Oh that's a fabulous page, love dragonflies!

Deborah Wainwright said...

That's lovely Helen all my fav colours xx

Sharon Fritchman said...

I love how you mixed your own shade of lavender! And wow! You created a beautiful work of art using this week's SOC colors! I love how you used these stamps to make such a creative piece!!!

Unknown said...

Love that dragonfly! Great page!!

Dianne said...

Another gorgeous page, love the background and the colors, and the huge beautiful dragon fly, thanks for sharing..

Kristin said...

xo

Caz said...

This is a lovely journal! The dragonfly details is perfect!

sam21ski said...

Oooooh good job I 'read' it, I thought it was a tag but turns out it's a long journal page!!

One of my fave images - love it

Sam xxx