For our first week,
Kristin at
Twinkle Twinkle asked us to made something using the colors citron green and turquoise. Originally I planned to dye some fabric, but I didn't have the right color dyes to mix to make citron green. Instead, I went with "Plan B."
I started with some of my handmade shimmery color mists, along with one purchased color mist. Before I got very far along, I had spilled the Tattered Angels color mist all over my desk. I ended up mopping it up with lots of card stock. Such a shame, since this stuff cost about 70 times what my handmade mists cost. In the end,
I came up with this abstract piece. I used handmade paper, baby wipes, card stock I colored, as well as lime/citron green and turquoise card stock. Guess what happens when you mix turquoise color mist with lime/citron green card stock! Yep, you get bright green.
I had this finished Tuesday, but had so many other blogs I needed to visit, I didn't add this till now. I hope it meets Kristin's expectations. The colors look a little off in the scan, but I'm sure they are much better than anything my puny camera could produce.
And please don't forget to visit others participating in
Kristin's Summer of Color challenge.
Wow Breath taking!
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LOVE!!! Awesome texture and range of color. Thanks for letting me know about this challenge! So fun.
ReplyDeleteloving the textures, design and colors. Happy SOC, Annette x
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Great testure and your design is awesome. Of course, the colors too.:)
ReplyDeleteThat is so upsetting when that happens but you have made a great design despite all the aggravation.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous!!
ReplyDeleteLuscious color, color color!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteA happy accident that spill. It looks great!
ReplyDeletebrilliant! Leave it to you to wipe up the spill with card stock!
ReplyDeleteYou certainly know how to make the best of an accident. Great colors and designs on all your pages.
ReplyDeleteLovely! What a great first week of SOC. :)
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness, of course! This is beautiful! I love the bright green that resulted from the mixture and although so sad that you had a spill (why is it always the expensive stuff?) I think you have stunning abstract results perhaps because of it. Thank you for playing along and sharing it with us, xoxo
ReplyDeleteOMGosh! This is so pretty, love the colors
ReplyDeleteHello, Elizabeth & Mr. Bleubeard!! :). Amazing what spills can make you create!!. LOVE your vibrant, textured, colorful page!.
ReplyDeleteUtterly gorgeous work!
ReplyDeleteStunning work Elizabeth, what an amazing colour combo to work with, beautifully done my lovely.
ReplyDeleteHuge hugs x
Those colours are just gorgeous. Even mopping up the spill looks amazing.
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Lovely textures in all those different papers.
ReplyDeleteThe colors are bright and beautiful on my monitor. I hate to hear about your spill but am delighted (and not surprised) to hear how you dealt with it.
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Lovely piece Elizabeth, shame about the mist. I did the same with a Dylusions spray a while back. BJ SOC#2
ReplyDeleteWow, a vibrant and zingy piece of work - I love it! It's always the expensive one that spills isn't it - I did that the other day with dylusions and soaked the edges of all the pages in a new sketch book - so annoying!
ReplyDeletewow,wow,wow!! This is just fabulous!!!
ReplyDeleteThe colors look brilliant and really stand out with all the texture in this piece. Sorry to hear about the spill, but I am sure you wasted not a drop!
ReplyDeleteHope you get some relief from the heat soon!
This is wonderful!
ReplyDeleteI like how it turned out--sometimes those little accidents end up really wonderful. :)
ReplyDeleteI love the colors - it looks so summery and fresh!
ReplyDeleteThis is so perfectly summery it is almost warming me up over here this chilly morning... great composition...xx
ReplyDeleteI love your cool textures and creative design! So beautiful!!!!
ReplyDeleteFabulous piece--it's beautiful!
ReplyDeleteYour spillage turned into something really creative. I love those colours and texture.
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That's just gorgeous! Totally love the color combo. :)
ReplyDeleteWhat fabulous colors, love the circles and flowers.
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Hello! Just visiting via Jez's blog. I love the colours and the shapes on this. Accidents can have brilliant consequences and this was one of those wonderful creative 'accidents' - sorry it meant you wasted valuable stuff. I'm beginning to think more and more that making your own materials where possible is a good idea. Julie Ann xxx
ReplyDeleteI love the way it turned out! I may have to start spilling my spray inks!
ReplyDeleteI love this. Such juicy use of colour. :)
ReplyDeleteLove all those floating, happy shapes and colours.
ReplyDeleteVery pretty Elizabeth! I saw your name on the challenge and had to stop by!
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(Give Bleubeard a hug for me too!)
Beautiful! Makes me think of the ocean!
ReplyDeleteThis is gorgeous - love it!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous use of the colours.
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