Summer of Color ~ Red

If you want to know more about the Summer of Color you need to go here.

This week's colour is red and I immediately thought of poppies, especially as Pippa had given me a paper napkin with poppies on.  I cut out the poppies and glued them on.  But first I layered the page with torn pages of music and print.  However because I gessoed them on rather than use Matte Medium, once I put the paint on, the underlying print has mostly disappeared.  I sprayed 3 colours of green dylusions paint and wiped them with a baby wipe.  Then I sprayed through a butterfly stencil. I decided to write the words of the famous poem In Flanders Field and realised that really the butterfly image wasn't relevant to larks.  So I stamped the birds on the wire across the top.  I stamped various plant images at the bottom of the page before apply the poppies with glue.

How exciting is that?!

I managed to make a favicon to match my blog.

An almost finished online course

Well, that might be a bit of an exaggeration!  I have finished all the pages in my Me in My MoleskinE journal.  However I still have 20 journaling tags to complete (start!).

Here are the rest of my pages. (You can see the others in an earlier post).   Be prepared for a lot of scrolling!

The next four pages don't exist in Kirsty's original design.  I chose not to do some of her pages and made these up myself.

And back to Kirsty's ideas.

 

I chose to use a very restricted colour palette ~ Broken China and Dried Marigold ~ rather than follow Kirsty's instructions.  In fact I didn't really follow the instructions much at all!  But I'm really pleased with how it turned out and would not have done it at all if it weren't for Kirsty's inspiration.