My inky travels along life's rocky road

Wednesday 5 June 2013

Craft Barn Alpha Challenge - F


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.

18 comments:

  1. Okay 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!!
    sandy

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  2. Love this and very cleverly used. Love all the blue shades and the flower border to finish it off and introduce some other colours.
    Lynn x

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  3. A perfect word choice! And a great way to illustrate it.

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  4. What 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

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  5. Ciao bella!! I love your summerish page, you can breath a real free-ness on it!

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  6. I love the idea and your page is beautiful!!

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  7. Wonderful pages, great sky full of birds flying high and I love the flower border making your pages into a lovely summer scene.

    Sylv xx

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  8. Wonderful page! Such gorgeous colours and a brilliant idea for the word xx

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  9. Lovely idea and nice, summer colours!

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  10. Great page and you packed lots of Fe-Fr in there apart from your chosen Free/Freedom!

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  11. It'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

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  12. Lovely pages, lots of freedom with your birds in FLIGHT

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  13. Just visiting the F pages...
    I adore this page
    :)

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  14. Lovely summery feel to your Free page gorgeous

    MaggieH

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  15. Lovely pages, and a good choice of word. Love the summery feeling! Valerie

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  16. Gorgeous pages! Love it. xx

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  17. I didn't know about blue being the colour of freedom either.
    Beautiful page!
    Thanks for playing with us at the Craft Barn
    Izzy

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