My inky travels along life's rocky road

Monday 14 November 2016

Dictionary Challenge - I


Just a few more letters remaining in the Craft Barn dictionary challenge and this fortnight's letter is I. There was a lot of choice (you could say an incredible amount) and I was very indecisive but I finally opted for 'Instructions'. I recently read some quotations from an American poet called Mary Oliver and they struck a chord with me. I decided to use an excerpt from one of her poems called 'Sometimes'. I tried to create a page in the style of those inspirational quote posters you see on Pinterest.
First I printed off the quote. Then I dabbed twisted citron, wild honey and festive berries DIs onto an acrylic block, spritzed with water and gold shimmer spray and smooshed it onto the page. I reapplied the colours frequently making sure to clean the block each time so I didn't end up with a brown mess. The leaf sprig stamp by Open Studio (a prize from a Memory Box challenge) was double clear embossed with Stazon stone grey and embossing pens. I went over the writing with a Pigma micron pen (08) and added some Tim Holtz wildflower and Spellbinders corner diecuts.
That's all folks!

9 comments:

  1. Fabulous quote and great word to use. Love your colour palette and the background.

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  2. Glad to see your use of so many I words. I think you were very successful in getting the feel of those posters and great words too. Elaine xx

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  3. I was most impressed with the coloring, and the time you took to make sure you didn't create mud. This is a lovely page, and, in my opinion, hard to illustrate. I love it.

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  4. Excellent choice of word!

    Sally

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  5. This is lovely - thank you for entering the Craft Barn Alpha Challenge xx

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  6. A great quote and I love the "poster" design. Fabulous background - a technique I must try.

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  7. Great word choice and a very lovely background! xx

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  8. Your concept is clever and works very well, the background colours, being contrasting, vibrate and the black silhouette flowers stand out!

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  9. That is such a great quote. The background for your poster style project is yummy!

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