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Week Six of Summer of Color 2013 - the last one and I'm really really late but I think I can still link up over at Twinkle Twinkle This time the lovely Kristin challenged us with Sage and Sepia . I had no idea what I was going to do when I sat down at my desk, other than another page in my fledgling art journal. I dug out some coloured pencils I've had for years and years and started scribbling. This is what came out - another mournful self portrait :o( oh dear! This always seems to happen when I'm working with a colour combination which I find especially difficult, not sure why, very odd - like the week we had Pale Pink and Charcoal Grey and this sad little me emerged ... obviously several decades younger!!! I'm much happier working with the brighter, more vibrant colours. Here are the other 4 weeks' pages ... It's been a brilliant six weeks for me and the best thing is that I've finally started my art journal and realised...

In case you're thinking "What is she on about now!?" - it's Wednesday, so it's time for show 'n' tell ... What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday If you pop over to see Julia at Stamping Ground   you can have a nosey at other people's workdesks all over the world and you can link up to your own as well - it's great fun and highly addictive and I never get to spend as much time on the noseying part as I would like! Anyway, here's mine this morning ... ... bit of a jumbly heap, but it has been productive so that's ok. I finally caught up on the last week of Summer of Colour 2013 (only 2 weeks late ... maybe 3). The colours were Sage and Sepia - not my favourite of the colour combo's Kristin challenged us with, but I quite enjoyed myself once I got going ... Not quite finished yet, because I haven't quite decided what I'm thinking about .... hmmmm .... strangely enough, I ended up with a mournful kind of self portrait las...

Case File #82 over at  CSI this week was right up my alley - bright colours, lots of fun - here it is (click on the image to enlarge it) As always, Debbi Tehrani , CSI Mastermind, has found an intriguing Scene for us to investigate - in order to solve the case, you have to create a page using the following clues All five colours in the Scheme At least two pieces of Evidence At least one piece of Testimony To help you along, there is also a new set of CSI Coordinates for every Case File, designed by the lovely Michele Singh . Here is how I solved the Case - the pictures show two of my scrappy mates our our wedding in 2011 - again you can click on the image to enlarge it if you want to The Scheme : I used all five colours, plus pops of black The Evidence : hearts; doodling; funky scallops; wet medium; cursive lettering The Testimony : My journaling is handwritten in cursive lettering and it was kicked off by the IW "playful, fun" It reads as follows; ...

What does FISH and the ROARING TWENTIES have in common you may well ask?! The answer is ... ... TAG TUESDAY!!! This week the theme is Fish - here's my take on it (yes, somehow my mind has turned to food again) I made the "tin" out of metallic cardstock, finishing it with a key pull from a real tin with some old string looped though it. Then I created the little fishes out of scrap photo paper coloured with alcohol ink and permanent marker pens - fun but messy! I also made my very overdue tag for last week's theme - "The Roaring Twenties" It's resting on one of my lovely old books - I reckon that knitted coathanger cover would be bang-on trend again now - anyway, this was just a lot of cuttin and stickin with paper scraps, finished with some beads, a flower and a piece of translucent ribbon which I thought was reminiscent of the silk stockings these lovely ladies would have worn. Here's a close up of the pretty bit Thanks for ...

Well I'm only two days late - but these pictures really WERE taken on Wednesday morning - I just haven't had chance to post them! this summer is busy busy busy and hot hot hot and I've realised this week that I've bitten off more than I have time to chew properly! So, if you don't know what on earth WOYWW means, check it out over at Julia's blog The Stamping Ground  - it's totally addictive snouting around other people's workdesks and you can even link up your own! We may be late to the party, but there's always next week ... Here was mine on Wednesday morning What you see above is a HUGE pile of good intentions ... On the far left is last week's page in the art journal I'm making for SOC - this was Candy Apple Red and Yellow - but I missed this week's combo, the LAST ONE, Sage Green and Sepia, because there was just too much else going on. But never mind, I'll catch up :o) Here you can see the beginnings of a Sma...

Blimey! Can't believe that this is the penultimate week of Summer of Color 2013 - pop over to Twinkle Twinkle if you don't know what I'm on about and see for yourself. Every week the wonderful Kristin gives us a new combination of colours to play with - this week it was Candy Apple Red and Yellow! You can create anything you like using these colours, link up at Twinkle Twinkle , and then check out all the amazing creations other people have come up with - it can be anything from pennants to paintings, tags to tattoos and I'm always impressed and inspired. Mine is an altered book art journal - somethinkg I've been meaning to do for ages. Here's my take on Candy Apple Red and Yellow Bit weird, and not quite what I had in mind, but one of the best things about this project has been that I have been able to just let play with the colours and different media and see what happens - lots of fun and a great learning curve. This time I started with a couple ...

Case File #80 over at CSI this week was a bit of a struggle for me - as regular readers will know, I'm not at my best with the paler, prettier combos - but I do love the whole retro vibe of this one and I always enjoy working with Em's sketches, so I gave it a go. Here's the Case File (click on the image to enlarge so you can read the clues) CSI Mastermind Debbi Tehrani has found us this beautiful Scene to investigate. From this image, Debbi takes the five colours for the Scheme and inspiration for design elements and journaling. CSI = Color, Stories, Inspiration As it is the second week of the month, we also have a fabulous sketch from Emma Stafrace at   Page Drafts To solve the Case, you need to design a scrap page using All FIVE colours in The Scheme At least TWO items of Evidence At least ONE piece of Testimony The Sketch To help you further, the wonderful Michele Singh designs a new set of CSI Coordinates for every Case - these are fabulous imag...

Find Your Voice is a brilliant FREE eight week storytelling workshop being run by Kristin Tweedale. Check it out for yourself - the lessons themselves are inspiring, but the community that's building up around this is truly amazing! I'm a bit behind, but that doesn't matter - I'll catch up! Here are my efforts for Week Two If you would like more details/explanation and a closer look, please click on the Find Your Voice tab at the top of this page - that is where I'm keeping all my FYV stuff together. Ok, now I'm going to see if I can manage to link this to the right place ... oh dear .... I really want to play but I'm easily confused .... :o)xxx

Good Morning WOYWWers!!! If you're not already a WOYWWer, check out Julia's blog Stamping Ground  to see what it's all about and you will soon be hooked! Here's my deskful of promise this morning (you can click on the image to enlarge the gory details) At the front is a board book awaiting its fourth coat of gesso in an effort to obliterate Postman Pat! I think I will just stick some paper over it, in fact, I should have thought of that in the first place. tsk. At least, thanks to a helpful hint from Liz Black on last week's WOYWW post, the brush I ruined by forgetting about it between coats of gesso did NOT go in the bin after all - it is currently in Paintbrush Hospital Intensive Care (AKA the shed) and hopefully will come back to all its hairy little friends very soon. I have a ridiculous number of brushes, because I bought a load at auction one time, but it will still go against the grain to throw one of them away! Just below my desk, if you look cl...

... Pale Pink and Charcoal. Now, if I'm honest, this is not my favourite of the colour combinations which Kristin over at Twinkle Twinkle has given us so far - well, what I mean is that it's a lovely combination when other people use it, but I work better with the more vivid colours. Still, a challenge is supposed to, well, challenge you isn't it? So I thought I'd have a go at something soft, dreamy and whimsical, maybe about myself as a little girl because I was such a daydreamer, always "away with the fairies" as my Gran used to say. So, I prepped a couple more pages of my altered book with gesso, mixed up some acrylic paints and waded in .... and this sad, mournful little girl came out - I just couldn't cheer her up! Oh dear! This journal was going to be full of fun and positivity - you see what these colours do to me? I did enjoy working on it though, and it's always good to experiment with something new. Maybe this little girl came out...

It's the last letter of the alphabet over at Tag Tuesday this week, so I went with the word Zip. Here's my tag (which I forgot to post earlier in the week, with all the excitement!) It's all made from scraps and rescued objects (one of the best things about making tags) and it took less than half an hour (one of the other best things about tags) The denim fabric paper came pre-stitched so that was easy, and the plaid pp is one I've had so long I can't remember where it came from. the zipper pull was in my 13Arts parcel from Poland, the buttons are vintage ones and so is the twine, which we found in John's Dad's shed. I did some distressing and inking and finally added a large jump ring from my mystery key collection. Might do a version of this for my son's birthday which is coming up ... but I'll have to be quick! Thanks for looking - if you're in the UK, enjoy the sunshine this weekend :o)xxx