Monet meets Picasso

Here's my next postcard for The Craft Barn's Quotes and Lyrics Challenge where the words to use are MIND and/or IGNORANCE.   Again I've gone with the first quote that popped an image into my head........maybe it's weird but that's obviously how my mind works!!

For the background I've used a combination of Square Palette Stamps (Oak House Studio) with bright inks to create the Picasso style background and just used a black Sharpie to frame them.  The Monet piece is from a Crafty Individuals book of images - I thought it looked like an impressionist painting.  And to finish the words are from a quote by Robert Brault - I'm not sure my dreams are like this but at least they'd be colourful!!

Anyway thanks for looking and for your lovely comments.  I'm off to see what everyone else has chosen to do!

Little Black Book

Another project with the Decorative Diamond stamp from Oak House Studio - this time a little notebook.

Firstly I randomly sprayed an A3 sheet of white linen card with Colour Chemistry Ink in a Bottle - Citrus Yellow, Citrus Orange and Glorious Gold.  I then cut it up to create 9 pages, some with pockets, and backed it with orange and white card.  I stamped the pages with Colour Chemistry Pigment Ink Pads - Lemon Yellow and Daffodil - and used various Oak House Studio stamps - the Decorative Diamond, Small and Large Harlequins and the Small Squares and Tag Palette Stamps.

I've used Decorative Diamonds (embossed with Midnight Sparkle Embossing Powder) to create tabs on the section dividers and also to decorate the cover.  The little book is held together with ring binders and decorated with ribbon.

ONE STAMP CHALLENGE
Lynnda will be at the Oak House Studio all weekend crafting  for 24hrs with just this one stamp to show how versatile a stamp can be.  She'll be stamping on card, wood, glass, metal, silk etc.  If you are local (East Yorkshire) you are welcome to pop along to the Studio between 10am-4pm today and join in the fun.  Otherwise follow the event online, I'm posting here all weekend, the Design Team have projects  on the OAK HOUSE STUDIO BLOG and others are posting on the ONE STAMP page on Facebook.

Why not take a look at what we've been up to and leave a comment or two!!  Come back later for more inspiration and many thanks!

Bits and Pieces

Here's a tag for Hels Sunday Stamper week 214 where the challenge is to use BITS and PIECES or EMBELLIES to be more precise!!

Well again I wasn't sure what to do and with Dave Clark Five in my head,  I went with a Bits and Pieces background then added Bits and Bobs.   I rummaged through my card bit box and took out anything that was purpley, stuck them to some watercolour paper and then painted over this with Paperartsy Fresco Finish in Orchid mixed with some Snowcap Dabber. 

I cut it into a tag shape and used some Square Palette stamps (from Oak House Studio) with Dusty Concord Distress Ink and Snowcap Dabber to add to the geometry!   I've also used a little Milled Lavendar Distress Stickles.

Next a rummage in another bit box for embellies - some fibres, flowers, a button, some bead string, mirror mosaic tiles and some bobbles off christmas crackers!  It's just finished with a Hero Arts sentiment stamped with Dusty Concord onto a painted scrap of card. 

It was a difficult one to photo as it's gone dark and raining again and I was having trouble with the flash on the shiny bits.  For some reason the white looks a bit green too.  Never mind, it does look better in real life - thank you for taking the time to look!!

Three Kisses

Here's a quick card for the Less is More one layer challenge week 76 where the theme is to use THREE of something, be it shapes, colours, stamps etc.

  

I thought I'd try some Kiss Stamping this week so I've used a Square Palette stamp inked with blue pigment ink and kissed this with a Mack Rose stamp inked in green.  The beauty is you never know what you are going to get in terms of depth of colour etc.  It's just finished with a Hero Arts sentiment.

I found this challenge quite hard as I had too many ideas and couldn't decide which to do, and then I had several failed attempts.  I'm not sure I like the finished card - I was oh so tempted to add more in that white space!! Maybe I'll have another go later in the week, but in the meantime, thanks for looking!