Summer of Colour - week 6

The last week already!
I have enjoyed this challenge even though I didn't manage to keep up every week!!!

Raspberry, Orange and a pop of Lemon ..... mmmmm

This is the Summer of Colour, we have all the heat required for ...... ice lollies!

yeah!

I found the right colours for the background in my stash so that is a good start.   Sort out my magazine and search, cut and glue.  The colour for the sticks is not quite brown enough so I added a bit of promarker to make it more 'woody' looking.  I placed the 'lemon lolly' off the card so that it is just 'a pop of colour'.

Sorting through my 'Words' box I found a page of printed sentences so this part is perfect - with icy fingers - summer and colour.
Sometimes I amaze myself ..... I thought I had set myself a really difficult challenge but  .... I enjoyed it .... a lot.
Thank you Kristin, see you next year ...

Summer of Colour - Week 5

Now we're talking ... my colours!!

So I did the usual and went online to look for inspiration ... 

http://www.nicsearth.com/2014/07/
summer-of-colour-week-5-royal-blue-red.html

I found this picture which really caught my eye.  I love this and immediately printed it out, sorted pages from my magazine and off I went.  Now one thing I do know is that you should always check your sources when surfing the net..... did I?  No!  and now?  There could be repercussions ....
I am making my last few ATCs in retrospect as the challenge is now closed although the 'Mr Linky' is still available.  I am publishing only on here although I may send out my work in club swaps.  
Now why am I telling you all this?  
Well you may ask!!
I never checked my source.  
I just loved this picture and went to town (as it were).  As I was browsing the 'Summer of Colour' site, I found this picture entered on 'Mr Linky'!
I went immediately to the owner's blog and found out I have inadvertently copied someone's own artwork without her permission.  I shall immediately go tell her and explain and, hopefully, she will allow me to show you my card and swap it on.  Whether I have permission or not, I still love her picture!

UPDATE:
I have emailed for permission to show you my card and there is no response as yet, so I will label this a CAS card!

I used a printed sheet from my stash for the background and then added the sail and boat, cut from my magazine as per usual.  I drew the mast and outlines with black pen and then added the sentiment - coloured with a wax crayon.  I rounded the corners on this card using my wave scissors, not quite sure ......
..... but the picture is still good!!!

Summer of Colour - Week 4

Week 4 really has a pop of colour, toning down the brightness!!

I found this picture (sorry, no details) on Google and I just knew what I was going to create ... 

Back to that Paris magazine .....


Balloons cut out freehand and then attached to a picture of a patio and garden .... dark balloons in the distance so there was the pop of dark.


A few larger light green balloons in front of the trees, then the pink ones in front  ....  a lustre thread glued to the back of the balloons and then folded over to the back of the card.

I typed out the sentiment and randomly cut it out and coloured it with a dark green crayon, then attached it in the lower righthand corner.

I love this card, maybe it's because it has the garden in the background!!

Summer of Colour - Week 3

Now we are into week 3 and have these fabulous colours to play with ...

I searched and searched on Google for inspiration and then found these paintings .... sorry but I didn't keep the name of the artist.  

Then life took over and the whole Summer of Colour was missed!  But I didn't forget ..... I kept the colours and the inspiration and when I had time started back in there .... Think it was about Week 5 ......

I managed to get enough pages from my magazine to make up the flowers.  I cut all the petals freehand, I wish that I had photographed the pages first .... the lavender flower is taken from an advert for the Follies and has a stunning costumed lady.... I punched some tiny flowers in matching colours for the centre and then had to REALLY search the magazine for the sentiment!!  But I found it?!  

So how did I actually make the card?  

I spread Gesso over the card and left it to dry, then tapped a couple of matching inkpads sparingly over the card.  Once this was dry  I added the flowers and then spritzed the whole area with gold.  Adding the centres to the flowers and the sentiment in the top lefthand corner completed the card.

ATCs For All - Decades 1920s

I thought that a pack of ephemera from this era had been included in my order from the Memorabilia Company but I can't find it so .......
My Mother was a milliner, as I have probably mentioned many times, and this meant that she was quite a fashionable young lady of the time.  She made most of her clothes and hats, her best friend May alongside her, and I have some wonderful photos of these two ladies.  
I also have lots of souvenirs from different places, among them a booklet from  The Great Exhibition of 1924. Then there was the Autograph Album ......  Enough memorabilia to make some ATCs methinks!!

No original photos etc. were used only photocopies.
I used a page from the souvenir booklet as a background then attached a length of the old ribbon I bought from the market in Paris diagonally across the card.  I took a photo of my mother on the ferry to the Isle of Wight, cut it down and rounded the corners, then attached it to the lower right of the card.  This left room for me to attach a gold embossed word - Imagine.


I used the cover of the souvenir booklet as the background to this card.  The ribbon made a neat border so that, when I attached some photos taken at the Expo, the souvenir title could still be seen.  The sentiment - put on your wings - is what Mam did in 1932 when she married my Father and sailed to the other side of the world - Malaya.


I think that this drawing is beautiful. 
I did nothing to this card except add the picture.  
My Uncle Vincent, no first name, was an artist of some renown and had his own sign-writing business.  I can imagine him coming round to my grandparents house, along with a few other relations, and all these young people spending time drawing, playing the piano, singing and dancing, going on picnics ....... all the things that folks did back then ...... this is from that time ......

I have enjoyed making these cards ...... a good way to spend a sunny Sunday afternoon.

Summer of Colour - Week Two

It's week 2 of the Summer of Colour 4 Challenge on TwinkleTwinkleLikeaStar and this week I've really struggled to find the colours in my magazine.

So I cheated .........



I managed to find the colour Coral in my magazine but could not find the right shade of blue for Teal, so I printed out the colours as defined by Kristin on her Blog.
I cut out this rather flashy lady who just happened to be wearing the right colour PVC outfit.  
I cut out the Teal from the colour strip above and placed it to the left of my card, and a quote from my stash along the right side.  I placed the model off centre so that I could add some flower punchouts from the Coral side of the colour strip.

Now I am wondering why my photo has a blue background when it is clearly Teal in the strip above? 
 Weird!  

Summer of Colour - Week one

BJ had an interesting post for WOYWW #261 and a link to an interesting Challenge ..... The Summer of Colour 
I left a comment for Kristin to say it looked very interesting and I wanted to join in.

Then I forgot about it!!!

Today I was checking my comments on this Blog and found one from Kristin ... one click and I am in panic mode!!!

Here are the colours for this week ....

I have decided to make ATCs using a magazine from Paris.

  

I found the colours I needed in the magazine advertising various days out.  I cut out the background for the card from the blue advert.  I imagined a tree ..... and cut it out of the yellow part.  Now I needed a 'Smudge, Splash or Pop of Hot Pink'.  

What to do .... my small scissors went clip, clip, clip .... and flowers grew and .... a bird settled in the tree ....

My first Summer of Colour ATC complete .... so off I go now to meet up with Mr Linky .....

ATCs For All - Decades ...The 1960s

Another excuse to use the Ephemera packs I bought in February.

Although I am not a Beatles fan, I can appreciate their music, and music is one of my joys in life.


So here are my cards, the Beatles x 2, the Monkees x1 and good old fashioned racing cars.



I covered the cards with joke catalogue pages to which I added some coloured cards of the groups, and some pictures from a toy catalogue.



In among the papers in the pack, I found enough words to make up some sentiments.


I added colour  to the cards by 'showing' them some inkpads!!!



UPDATED: 09.05.2014
I received these little beauties today ...


The Beatles came back to me.
Thank you Elena. 

Hey, Hey, the Monkees returned as well!

Thank you Julie S.   

Bringing me peace and colour.

Thank you Kathy O.