HELLO WEEK 2 of SOC!! I was so excited about the new colors for this second week over at http://twinkletwinklelikeastar.blogspot.com/ hosted by the very sweet and awesome Kristin. This challenge is bringing me back to painting, dreaming of colors and playing with colors wherever I go now. At the same time though my creative mojo was also overwhelmed and wanting to make the perfect thing with these colors. My goal is to make 3 cards each week and no matter what I tried they weren't working out. So I decided to play around in a different way and using what's close to me... my camera. I'm going to walk you thru some color inspiration I found in my scrap space and around my house and then finally to what I was able to make. This might be what I do every week just to make this more fun, while doing this I even found things for last weeks colors but didn't add them.
I forgot to mention the colors even though you could guess from the first picture. The most voted for colors this week are ORANGE & HOT PINK!! Don't they look so yummy together!!
Now I was ready to play again and made a couple things in no time at all. Didn't realize how many things I have in these colors around the house. I must say that orange is my preference over pink but together they make me happy. Our full bath is actually red/orange/pink and is a mess right now so I couldn't get any pictures or at a good angle to show you all these colors but it's bright and happy in there. First thing I did was throw some paint on paper and added some doodles with sharpies. My plan is to cut them up into hearts or flowers later on, it was fun just to play and paint with them.
I made a collage with all the papers in these colors, have been doing this a lot lately and enjoy them.
I knew I wanted circles on a card so that's what I did
I love this one, messy and fun
Thanks Kristin for another inspired week in colors, can't wait to see what next week's colors will be. I want to play with these more and try adding in some brown to the mix. While out at the mall there was orange everywhere and even two purses in the colors from last week and this week's. So glad to have some blog friends jumping in with this challenge and the wonderful community there sharing their work. It's been fun scrolling thru and seeing what everyone comes up with. Take a look if you haven't yet by clicking on the link above or the yellow button in the top right of my blog.
We have had a great week, feels like summer and the pool is where we are at most days. Have a great day and thanks for coming by.
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Hi Dawn! I love reading your post today! and I especially loved seeing all of the inspiration around you in the form of orange and hot pink! So cool to see your wonderful photos! I love the beautiful cards you made, especially your fun and messy one at the end! and I really like your collage, too! Awesome creations, Dawn. Thanks once again for telling me about SOC!!!!
ReplyDeleteGreat idea to create a large piece and then cut it down to make smaller projects. I do this a lot when making ATC's for swaps. Love all of your orange/pink stuff!!
ReplyDeleteYeah, this is a whole lot of fun to add some color-prompt photography from things around the house!!. LOVE this. And, WOWWW! Look at that gorgeous play! I LOVE the paper collage so much, and the friend= circles are just too cute!!. Have fun outside!. We in Kuala Lumpur are having the worst haze ever, even Singapore suffers from the Sumatera smoke coming in. So, no fun walk in the park for us :).
ReplyDeleteI love how you've presented this theme from the simplest object to craft supplies. Your collage looks wonderful. Wishing you a gorgeous and creative weekend:)
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Great minds think alike Dawn...I have just finished up PL week 24, and guess what colours I used? LOL, yep, pink and orange!You are doing so well with your cardmaking...great job!
ReplyDeleteWonderful dreams in pink and orange, dear Dawn!
ReplyDeleteLove your photos and your collage in your journal. Hugs - Erika
Love all of your pink and orange projects Dawn! Fun to see all of the pink and orange things in your home too - love those colors!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much ladies, it made my day to read your comments. I enjoyed finding these colors thru-out my house and will have to do this again. These colors will inspire me long after the week is over.
ReplyDeleteWOW I love Everything about your post, all the colour opportunities you found and your journal and card too. Super hot pink and orange week for you. BJ
ReplyDeleteWonderful work! I love those collaged papers, so cheerful!
ReplyDeleteWow, you found lots of lovely inspiration didn't you? What a great way to motivate yourself, and I love what you ended up making.
ReplyDeleteHi Dawn!!!
ReplyDeleteI found your blog!!! Love it and signed up to follow you too! We're blog buddies!!! Can't wait to read some more posts! I'm loving your Orange and Hot Pink..you rocked it! See you on SOC soon!
I thought the collaged papers were fantastic. I'm a big fan of collage and you nailed this SOC challenge.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much ladies for the visit and comments. They make my day! I've had so much fun finding new blogs thru SOC, so much talent and inspiration!!
ReplyDeleteLove your collage pages. That's a great idea collecting inspiration with your camera - it's amazing what you find around the house! Thanks for stopping by my blog - hope you have a great week.
ReplyDeleteLooks like you had a lot of fun while using the colours of this week. I look forward to seeing what colour inspiration you find for next week. :)
ReplyDeleteHi Dawn,
ReplyDeleteI was here earlier, but didn't find a later entry, so decided to thank you on this post for your very generous and kind remarks you left on my SOC colors for week 3.
I am so glad you are comfortable with week 3's colors. I can't wait to see what you come up with. And I appreciate the advice you gave me.
In all truthfulness, I DID look through my scrap papers, but I'm not a scrapbooker, so I don't have a lot of patterned papers, preferring to make my own backgrounds instead.
I even looked at the examples Kirstin gave us this week, but nothing really piqued my interest. I guess I wasn't "feeling" the colors as well as I should have. That's why I'm glad we have choices, and some of these colors will be harder for each of us to deal with than others.
Paint is definitely tricky. When mixing paint colors, it's hard to get the right hue. I'm confident you know there is a PINK red and an ORANGE red, and they don't mix or match well on the spectrum, whether it's paint or scrapbook papers.
Rest assured, I'm on a kick to try new things each week (last year I sewed little art quilts in the SOC colors) and this year I'm trying to make a SOC art journal. Unless I plan to delve into fabric in the last half of the challenge, I probably won't pull out the paint again. So, thanks for all your advice. I'm most grateful for it.