My inky travels along life's rocky road

Wednesday 23 January 2013

Craft Barn Alpha Challenge - C


This week's letter is C and for me it could only be one thing (ok I did contemplate 'the big C' for a nanosecond but cancer was not something I wanted to portray). After last time's deep and thoughtful word I thought I'd go for something more lighthearted so I present ... Colourful Christmas! There is a lot of shine going on so it was hard to get a good shot of all the elements. I painted the pages with white acrylic paint mixed with iridescent medium. The BG was sprayed with Glimmer Mist through a stencil and then I flipped the wet stencil over onto the other page. The sequin waste is a Christine Adolph stamp with Impress emerald. The garland is a Sizzix die sponged with Adirondack meadow and coloured with a red Coloursoft pencil. Also in the BG are some splodges of Brilliance galaxy gold, some stencilled stars in pearlescent orange and a Katzelkraft splatter stamp with rocket red. The reindeer and the candles (another C word) are also by Katzelkraft. The 2 words 'peace' and 'joy' are embossed and cut out to add a bit of texture. I debated whether to add some ink to them for greater definition but I like them snow-white and they are clearer IRL. I wrote some Christmas-related words around the edges of the pages - writing in this book was the hardest thing of all for me but I'm glad I did it.
Thank you to everyone for your comments on my last entry. I do try and visit everyone who enters but if I haven't left a comment it's because for some reason I was unable to rather than that I couldn't be bothered. I look forward to seeing all your C words.

19 comments:

  1. Great choice of word, love the colours and all the detail, still working on mine took ages to find a word to work with! Great challenge though.

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  2. Lovely colourful festive page great colour combo

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  3. Your page is so merry and bright! I love the contrast between the more solidly and more lightly stamped/painted/spritzed images. I'm sure I've said that poorly.

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  4. Looks a really colourful page but I bet it looks much better in real life with all that shimmer!!

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  5. Beautiful background here. Love the way you have put Christmassy words around the edge

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  6. A really fab page. Would love to see all that shimmer, a great festive page that captures the magic

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  7. Visiting from the Alpha Challenge - Christmas is definitely the better choice of the two words. This is a lovely colourful page full of cheer :0) Mo

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  8. What a pretty page, I love the colours.
    HUgs x

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  9. A lovely two page spread. Just the job for the weather we have outside at present. Hugs Mrs A.

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  10. Such merry pages...wonderful background and love the reindeer ! :)

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  11. Brilliant ideas on the pages and a great choice of words

    Love Chrissie xx

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  12. Really pretty. I love the bows.

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  13. Such a pretty page, love the soft colours! Thank you for playing again with The Craft Barn x

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  14. Fun choice of word and fun pages, I bet they're really shimmery in real life!

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  15. Fabulous pages, beautiful Christmas page.

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  16. Still in the *C*hristmas mood, are we? Beautiful background.
    Thank you for playing with us at the Craft Barn
    Izzy

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  17. Love all the different effects combined together. And of course you chose a great word to illustrate too. Great work, and your writing is very neat.

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  18. Pretty Christmas page!! I love all the color you used!

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