' ' ' 'Crafty Endeavours: Calendar Challenge : Bright Colours

Saturday 13 October 2012

Calendar Challenge : Bright Colours

For our second calendar page the Craft Barn team is tasking us with using bright colours, for instance the Dylusions inks. I haven't got any of those (yet), but I do have a mixed assortment of sprays :  with and without micas, branded and home made etc...

I immediately knew which stamps I wanted to use and sprayed my page in bands of colours to suit the scene :


I used an Archival black inkpad and some water based markers for the grass and plants, then I removed colour with thin bleach in some areas (I tried lifting the colour with water only but being dyes the colours didn't shift at all).
Still not sure if I should have bleached more areas of the house and/or added colour, for instance made the roof red...

Let me know what you think,

11 comments:

  1. Simply gorgeous! Love the colours, love the technique, love the image! Superb! TFS!

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  2. I love the way you've bleached out just the fence - it makes it look like a traditional white picket fence and contrasts beautifully with the sprayed BG.

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  3. J'aime beaucoup cette petite scène et ton dégradé de couleurs, c'est très beau ! Je n'aurais pas décoloré davantage non plus je crois... C'est superbe comme ça ! Bon dimanche à toi.

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  4. A great calendar page love the image and colours for a bright and fresh look

    MaggieH

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  5. This is a great stamp that you used. Beautiful bright colors.
    Michelle

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  6. great calendar page, beautiful stamped image

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  7. Beautiful stamping and colors. I especially like the look of the white fence.

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  8. Bleaching is a technique I've never tried but it looks so effective. Imlove that house stamp too. A super calendar page. xx

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  9. The colours are gorgeous and no I don't think it needs more, think you lifted just enough to highlight with the bleach ..if in doubt do nowt! :-)x

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  10. This is so colourful love the simplicity of it :)
    Von ♥

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