I wanted to make something, but I didn’t want to have to think about it too hard. I didn’t want to have to contemplate colour blends or even basic palettes. So I reached for a handmade background from my stash — a nice mottled blue-green piece — and a flower stencil.
Another art journal page — I could get used to making these! It’s nice to have a single starting point, a few ideas, and no finished image in mind and then just see where the page takes you.
Another art journal page. This one was inspired by the June challenge over at That’s Crafty; this month’s theme is “a summer’s day” and so I got out the bright tropical colours and butterflies.
I’ve been thinking about alternative uses for my colouring – I enjoy making cards but I do have rather a large stash and if I’m not careful it will spill over into a second box. So I’ve been thinking about making things to be framed instead.
My other half took one look at this and named it “floralarm” — “because it’s a floral alarm clock thingy”… The project was driven by a desire to try altering something other than a jar and to use more than a couple of the flowers I’ve apparently been hoarding from my Craft Box subscription.
This is a coming together of many different experiments, all in lovely lovely purple (and gold).
I haven’t made that many cards so far this year — I’ve been relying on my stash mostly — but it’s now that time when I have to start again. There are quite a few men having birthdays in the next couple of months and, of course, there’s Father’s Day as well, and I just don’t have masculine cards in my stash.
