Summer of Colour

Well even if the weather has not been that good this summer it has been a Summer of Colour thanks to Kristen. I have enjoyed doing this project - and have even managed to finish it on time! It has made me try some new things and I know that I would like to try some more art journalling and to experiment and learn more! For this final week we were to show our work over the past 8 weeks so here are my pages all together.

Brown

My Brown page for Summer of Colour. I used various colours of brown paint for the background, then used some glimmer mists before sticking on some collage pieces.

Although I had done a blue project I wanted to have a blue page to complete the set, so I raided my scraps bag and came up with this.

Now just to do a front cover and bind them all together.

Purple

Although this is the last week of Summer of Colour there are still a couple of colours I have to finish as I was away on holiday. This is my Purple page. I glued a line of small beads with a dragonfly brad at each end, then stamped some bird images. I then outlined some of the stamped images with a pen, the words say 'if I had wings'.

Orange

This week was the last colour for Summer of Colour and it was Orange - next week is to showcase all your colour projects. I still have a couple of colours to do before I try and pull them all together - might even get my bindit all out and bind them together. I did this simple page for orange - I tried using an orange to print with but it didn't really work very well.

I have enjoyed this project, but think I could do with learning a bit more about art journalling - any tips/hints or suggestions for online courses or books?

Red

This week's colour over at a Summer of Colour was Red. I have not had much time to play this week, but managed to do this page quickly! I have still Brown from last week and Purple from next week to do, but will try and catch up when I return from holiday.

We went to see the last Harry Potter film this week, and thought it was a great film! A good end to the series.

Yellow

This weeks colour over at Kristin's Summer of Colour was Yellow. Yellow always seem to me to suggest happy and bright and summery so I produced this page. I painted it with several colours of yellow paint, added some paper at the top, some yellow fibres, some foam swirls, a sticker with flowers on it and then stamped a bird in the bottom.

Next week's colour is Brown, and I may have to come back to that one as we will be on holiday next week.

Pink

The colour for this week over at Summer of Colour was Pink. I really struggled with pink as, although I like the colour, I did not really have much in that colour. I came up with this page, made from scraps of scrapbooking paper in my scraps bag, and then added a few flowers and things. I am not really sure if I like it much though.

Last Sunday we took eldest son to St Andrew's University for a weeks summer school. This is him looking a tad nervous as we left him. He comes home tomorrow and has had a fabulous time. He now just wants to be a permanent student and do several courses!! Let's hope his Higher results are adequate!!



Green

The colour for this week's  Summer of Colour was Green, so I thought I would make a start to an art journal. I painted the background using a couple of different colours of green, then some green shimmer mist. The base of the tree is grungeboard painted, I added buttons for the leaves of the tree and then randomly stamped some leaf images, and added a couple of butterfly lady stickers.

Now of to think about next week's colour - Pink.

Blue

The first week's colour over at Summer of Colour was blue. I know I a bit late getting this finished and posted but it has been a very hectic week. Anyway here is a photo of my blue piggybank, brought all the way home from Amsterdam.

I have had this trinket box waiting to be decorated for quite some time, and as the room it is in is blue, I thought that it was time I decorated it.

So I did.

I painted it using various different colours of blue paint, then  added some beads for decoration. I am quite pleased with the effect, although I think I should have painted it first with some kind of primer or something as the brown colour showed through quite a lot at first.

Next week the colour is Green.

Summer of Colour

Yes it really is summer, even if the weather here doesn't really feel like it sometimes. Today I came across a new project, (thanks Carolyn) which I thought would be interesting to try and kick start my creative juices again. Summer of Colour is a free 10 week project. Each week you are asked to produce something based on a set colour. I thought this sounded like fun so am going to join in. I don't want to commit to doing just one creative thing all summer, so am going to try out some different things each week. probably things like photography, scrapping, felting, maybe even some art journalling if I am feeling brave!

What summer projects are you doing this summer?