Summer of Color Week 3

This week's colors are lime green and purple. Looking around my studio I spied several small journals I had begun to assemble but never finished. In that pile was one with a cover perfect for this challenge. Even the ribbons I had previously chosen to bind it are lime green and purple! 

Lavender is in full bloom in my garden right now. Knowing these flowers would fit the challenge, though the stem and leaves don't, I looked around for foliage in the lime green color range. Lemon balm seemed to fit.

So here is my seven hole pamphlet stitch journal and bouquet of lavender and lemon balm.  I don't like the lighting in these photos and will try to photograph them again tomorrow. I decided to upload these anyway, in the event that tomorrow's light isn't any better!

Summer of Color - Week 2

This week the colors to work with are orange and hot pink. I occasionally use these colors in my artwork, and always include them in my flower gardens. The colors attract butterflies and hummingbirds and work so nicely with green foliage.

I decided to look through my garden and decorating magazines for photos of flowers and home furnishings in these colors. They were quite easy to find, and often paired together. Working with magazine pages only, I created these three collages.

Speaking of Circles - Summer of Color and Etsy Craft Party

Being involved with several things at once right now, I decided to combine this week's Summer of Color Challenge with the demo sheets I needed to create for the upcoming Etsy World Craft Party workshops I'll be facilitating. Our theme for the party is "People Make the World Go Round". The facilitators are all working with the theme of circles or spheres. One of my workshops will be "Creating Decorative Papers using Everyday Objects". Employing printing, stamping, stenciling and masking, all with circle shapes, I created these papers.

 

Next, I cut and tore them into smaller pieces and made these three collages.

Each week participants of the Summer of Color Challenge vote on the color combination they like best. The combo with the most votes wins. I voted for tangerine and watermelon for next week - hope it's the winner!