Bright colours are required on this week's Craft Barn Calendar Challenge. February is usually a grey and dismal month so I'm sure some brightness will be just perfect for a February calendar page. I wanted to give a nod to Valentines Day but I didn't want that as my main theme (I'm getting too old for all that stuff!). This Crafty Individuals stamp fitted my requirements with a few hearts in the background. The page background uses the Stazon technique (basically rubbing a few Stazon colours randomly on the page). I used mustard, azure and blazing red over a Cornish Heritage Farms stamp. I highlighted some parts with a white pen - I have a Sakura white pen, an Inkessentials white pen and a Uni Posca white marker pen but I never seem to get the results I want from them. The Uni Posca is the best but I need to get a thinner version so that I can add detail more accurately. I left the image and month tab plain white because I wanted a contrast to the bright colours and it also helps pick up the white in the BG. So that's it for today - a welcome touch of brightness on this wet and miserable day.
Oh, it's very nice !... I would never have thought to use my Stazon inks to build a background !! Final effet is so beautiful. Coco x
ReplyDeleteBeautiful page and guess what I was, or am, thinking of using? Yup! The same stazon technique! Just haven't gotten round to getting inky yet!!!!! It's a gorgeous page, so pretty. Bravo! I'll have to get my thinking cap on again!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI would have no problem with you using the same technique. I'm sure both pages would look totally different so it wouldn't matter.
DeleteOOh this is lovely, all the yummy bright colours work so well and I think your highlighting pen works perfectly, Gay x
ReplyDeleteI love your background. I never used this technique before. And your highlights look great to me!
ReplyDeleteMichelle
Beautiful background and fantastic second entry.
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Looking forward to seeing your next calendar
Izzy
Love your background - that stamp is gorgeous and it's very bright!
ReplyDeleteSuch a lovely and bright page! I never used StazOn in this way, cool!
ReplyDeleteSuch an amazing technique will have to give it a go and really great page ! x
ReplyDeleteStunning colors and design. I really like how the bright colors highligts the image.
ReplyDeleteLove the patchwork of colour for the background and it took me ages to place that BG pattern, doh! The white highlights look really effective.
ReplyDeleteThat surely will brighten up a dreary February - it's lovely.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful colours, highlights look good and the white certainly brings out the colours.
ReplyDeleteFabulous colours and I love the white highlighting. xx
ReplyDeleteLove the gorgeous colours in the background and the use of the white pen. I know what you mean about them - I find my two are very hit and miss! Gorgeous stamped images.
ReplyDeleteJuliaxx
A really lovely vibrant page love all the stamps you have used and set them off with white highlights is a great idea.
ReplyDeleteMaggieH
Lovely bright colours and great stamping, plus the white pen(s) work really well.
ReplyDeletelovely page, great idea to highlight with a white pen
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