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    SOC5: week 2

    June 17, 2015 - By 

    Week 2 of The Summer of Color hosted by Kristin of Twinkle, Twinkle has me loving the colors! I absolutely adore this color combo.

    1 pink + 1 pink + 1 orange

    I used a hot pink gelato through the middle of the gesso’d page…spritzed it with water and blended it with my fingers then tipped the book back and forth to make the color run.SOC5 week2I found a piece of scrapbook paper in the pastel pink shade and punched a variety of circles to place across the center. SOC5 week 2

    I happened to have some fun orange mesh, washi tape and some brads all in the same shade of orange.

    Since I have such a difficult time leaving a page without words, I decided that vellum would be a good choice to add the required word. I can’t explain it but for some reason words make me feel at peace with a page.SOC 5 week2Even after my word, I felt it still was lacking something….orange splatters fit the bill. I’m very happy with this page as simple as it is.

    Thanks once again to Kristin for this fun summer challenge!!

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    AJJ theme: Feminine

    June 12, 2015 - By 

    I’m playing along with Art Journal Journey again. The theme is masculine/feminine.

    Art Journal Journey

    I started this background for a different challenge then abandoned it as it wasn’t going the direction I had envisioned.  This gave me a great starting point to draw a face.

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    I’m certainly not great at faces but drawing with the eyes closed certainly helps.  The way I figure is if I keep trying they’ve got to improve over time!

    I added some paper and fabric collage with some found text to balance out the pages.

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    The Summer of Color 5: week 1

    June 10, 2015 - By 

    I’ve been waiting all year, heck since last year, for this post.

    The Summer of Color hosted by Kristin of Twinkle, Twinkle is here and I’m ready to share my page for the first weeks challenge.

    1 blue + 1 blue + 1 green

    I decided to use gelatos since I have a nice selection in coordinating colors.

    SOC5 week 1

    I scribbled the three colors straight on the book pages then spritzed with water. I blended with my fingers then closed the pages onto one another and quickly pulled them back apart. This gives a fun mix of the colors over top of each other in a very unique way.

    My quote “The one who plants a garden plants happiness” guided me to stamp some flowers with faded denim distress ink across the bottom of the page.

    I ripped bits of the baby wipe I used earlier to simulate clouds.

    I stamped my quote on some dress pattern paper since I had it laying around. In hindsight I wish I’d taken the time to dig out some white tissue paper instead.

    The words in text came last. I saw them in my bin of saved phrases right there on top and decided they were meant to be on the page as well.

    Thanks to Kristin for once again hosting this great challenge.