dipping my foot in the ocean of colour!!

well the middle of this week saw the birthday of my blogging buddy Michelle, whose love of colour sings form her blog.I wanted to send her something and so , took a deep breath, (having often looked at other blogger use of colour, ..including Kate crane, and Trish Latimers painty layers)...and dived into this whole painty colour thing.
I am still testing the water , as I am much happier in monochrome pieces, soft colours and browns..so hold onto your hats!
So here is the canvas I made for Michelle:

well you know me and my love of hearts and wings, I love blue and would have stuck to that, but Michelle has this whole love of colour thing going on and I embraced it! Had lots of fun and well that's it really..had a go.
I added layers of paintyness, then added some texture paste coloured with paint, through a stencil and left to dry.

When dry I added lots of painty layers through different stencils and some sequin waste ( thanks Mum!).
Then I stamped with PAINT!! I know how mad, but managed to stamp and get stamp clean again..

Finally I added circles using a pot lid dipped in paint and some lines using a thick piece of card and edged with some paint.

The decoration, a heart, ( wound with wire..love wire!),

some textured pasted wings, covered in treasure gold..(silver) and dream big cut from my word play die..

I think sometimes it is good to challenge our creative boundaries and have a go at something new..I will never leave my love of distress and all things vintage behind..and a dash of steampunk thrown in..but may embrace this whole painty thing and colour a bit more!

Have a fun and inky one!

Playing with paint

I started by making some painty pages, I love playing with paint but haven't done so for ages!
I used some dylusions paints, in a fab turquoise and grey , scraping on with an old plastic card...then added lots of stencilled colour. So here are my painty pages:

When the paint background was dry I added stencilled circles,using paint and a dylusions stencil..then added some large circles using an old lid. When dry.... and yes I had to be patient....I added some stencilled circles in pen, some fab black leaves from dylusions ...I am hooked on these as I Love the vibrant colours against the black!
I added some doodled White detail too.
finally I added some movers and shapers butterflies coloured with the summer DI, picked raspberry so not my colour and yet....love it against the paint.., I stippled over some DI in salty sea, using a baby wipe.. I also added a Tim dress form inked and covered with walnut stain DI and some wings ..cannot help myself!

The final addition was a quote, inked softly with picked raspberry..from dylusions set...oh and some keys and some DI in black soot round the edges of the page.

still totally a vintage and grunge girl and yet i find myself loving the vibrant colours some how...
I am entering this for the following competitions:
Circles @ http://theartisticstampercreativeteam.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/july-challenge-circles.html
colour challenge @ http://craftyribbonschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/

bright colours @ http://blog.oozak.com/
photo inspiration @ http://theseinspiredchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/

have a fab and inky day!