My inky travels along life's rocky road

Wednesday 6 February 2013

Craft Barn Alpha Challenge - E



This fortnight's alpha challenge on the Craft Barn blog is E. I looked through the e  section of the dictionary searching for suitable words - experience, elephant, egg. Eye was on the last page and I knew it was the one. I blanked out the non-eye related words but wanted to keep all the eye derived words visible in some way. I just received the TH spring DIs this morning so I had to use them - squeezed lemonade, shaded lilac and peacock feathers. I applied them randomly with cut n' dry foam and then used a brayer with rubber bands on with the lilac DI. I randomly added a small non sequitur crackle stamp with the peacock DI. The face and eye stamps by Hampton Arts are stamped in Archival grape. The butterfly is also by Hampton Arts coloured with Coloursoft pencils and Sansodor, stuck to the page with foam pads so that it looks like it has just landed (this stamp always freaks me out a bit). The text is by Paper Artsy. I added 2 butterfly eyelets to finish.
Thank you for all your kind comments. This is all quite new to me but I am enjoying myself tremendously.

31 comments:

  1. Wow, what a wonderfully creative pages! That butterfly is a bit creepy but fits so well with its watching eyes.

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  2. Lovely piece of arty work !!

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  3. As you say, snap! I love your eyes, they are so beautiful. I nearly used the stamp you have top left on mine, too!

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  4. Fantastic pages and the butterfly eyes are amazing colours

    Love Chrissie xx

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  5. WOW a lovely lot of eyes!!! Fabulous page! Thank you for joining in again with us over at The Craft Barn x

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  6. Ha! I love it, sort of eerie in a way. The eyes follow you around. Love the new colours

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  7. Eye seems to be a popular choice... Love it.
    Great page
    Thanks for playing with us at the Craft Barn
    Izzy

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  8. Beautiful pages...liking your colour combo too x

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  9. Lovely colours and eyes - great butterfly with eyes on the wings!

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  10. This is truly stunning! From the face to the butterfly...almost speechless!

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  11. Fabulous pages and great colours I see what you mean about the butterfly....lol, although it is a gorgeous stamp.

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  12. Great colours, love all the eyes.

    Sylv x

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  13. Beautiful pages :)
    *Hugs, Inger*

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  14. Stunning! I don't know how you acheieved this beautiful effect so well without any warpage, creasing etc! Superb! bravo!

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  15. Yes, I can see why that stamp freaks you out a bit - not sure I'd want one of those on the buddleia bush! Great pages!

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  16. Gorgeus i inking tecniques. Love how the eyes are stamped randomly around the pages.

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  17. Love you eyes especially the butterfly ones. BJ

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  18. As Joanne said I can empathise with you over that stamp and certainly wouldn't want to find it on any of our buddleias either :) Love the pages though and the colours you have used.
    Lynn x

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  19. Wow! I love your page. Love all those eyes. especially the ones on the butterfly and the top page image. Fabulous.

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  20. liking the LO and colour of these pages.

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  21. Great pages and I really like the colours that you have used.

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  22. Oh, so well done! Love those colors too. Thanks for stopping by my blog today! Best wishes, Yvonne

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  23. Beautiful, beautiful! Gorgeous colours!

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  24. Fantastic pages, especially love the butterfly.

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  25. Thanks for visiting my blog and managing to leave a comment! There is a blogger problem that I have been suffering for months which does aflict some and not others. On the Quirky blog the pages won't work!
    I have changed how comments appear to every variation and sometimes that worked but not for long!
    Your page is truly gorgeous, I wish mine were as good!
    Cazzy x

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  26. Bit spooky with all those eye but lovely page. I like the butterfly

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  27. ooh Wow! Your page is awesome! The colours look fab and those eyes are amazing! The butterfly is so unusual and very cool. Thank you for visiting me! xx

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  28. Cool butterfly! Your pages are so, well, so fab! I needs me that set of 'eyes' stamps. Thanks for visiting me. Hugs

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  29. Great page! I love the stamps you used!

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  30. Great pages. Never thought of eyes. Like how you have incorporated them into the butterfly wings. I am totally clueless at the moment for my letter H. Thank goodness we have a fornight for esch challege. Hugs Mrs A.

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