The twist in the 11th Alpha Challenge on the Craft Barn blog is the letter F but only words between Fe and Fr. That ruled out several good words such as family and face. I've been away for a few days and have been trying to catch up with various things so I've only just managed to complete this.
I decided to go with Free/Freedom. Apparently in the language of colours, blue is the colour of freedom (who knew?) so there is quite a bit of blue. I drew hand sketched frames (you could call them freeform?) and used tumbled glass, salty ocean and stormy sky DIs on the BG over some cloud-shaped masks. The flying birds (they have feathers, right?) are Tim Holtz and Crafty Individuals stamps and the bird die is by Sizzix (I could say it was a finch but I think it's a swallow). The foliage and flowers are by Paula Pascual from the punchable tags set. The text is cut from an Xcut set and Tim Holtz's alphabetical die.
I'm sorry I have not been able to visit anyone this week - I have an awful lot on at the moment but I will try and have a look at your no doubt wonderful entries.
Lovely page.
ReplyDeleteOkay dear hear - this is absolutely wonderful and I do mean grand. Oh to be able to soar like a bird - your pages are gorgeous. Thanks for you sweet comment but I am afraid I am still a toddler in this wonderful challenge blog. It is a joy to follow you - now if only I could keep up!!
ReplyDeletesandy
Love this and very cleverly used. Love all the blue shades and the flower border to finish it off and introduce some other colours.
ReplyDeleteLynn x
A perfect word choice! And a great way to illustrate it.
ReplyDeleteWhat a super way to do a bird page for "F", I like your thinking there. I'm having a bird moment myself with new bird dies. Love the clouds in the sky and the soft flower meadow at the bottom. Lovely page. BJ
ReplyDeleteCiao bella!! I love your summerish page, you can breath a real free-ness on it!
ReplyDeleteI love the idea and your page is beautiful!!
ReplyDeleteWonderful pages, great sky full of birds flying high and I love the flower border making your pages into a lovely summer scene.
ReplyDeleteSylv xx
Wonderful page! Such gorgeous colours and a brilliant idea for the word xx
ReplyDeleteLovely idea and nice, summer colours!
ReplyDeleteGreat page and you packed lots of Fe-Fr in there apart from your chosen Free/Freedom!
ReplyDeleteIt's really well done, I love how you separate the top part of the scene in the sky and the bottom part with flowers... Beautiful !! Happy day, Coco x
ReplyDeleteLovely pages, lots of freedom with your birds in FLIGHT
ReplyDeleteJust visiting the F pages...
ReplyDeleteI adore this page
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Lovely summery feel to your Free page gorgeous
ReplyDeleteMaggieH
Lovely pages, and a good choice of word. Love the summery feeling! Valerie
ReplyDeleteGorgeous pages! Love it. xx
ReplyDeleteI didn't know about blue being the colour of freedom either.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful page!
Thanks for playing with us at the Craft Barn
Izzy