Thursday 4 February 2010

Play Date Cafe Challenge No 15




The Play Date Cafe Challenge No 15 was announced today and I just love these yummy colours.

I decided to make a cover for my Art Journal:


I stamped the medallion stamp from SU in chocolate chip ink on to kraft cardstock, then I inked in the centre using a rust ink pad and a blender pen and added some distress stickles.
I masked the medallion image and used a Tim Holtz stamp and navy ink to stamp some background patterns. With the mask still in place I sprayed the whole thing with Frosty night glimmer mist.
I coloured a page of text with Jo Sonja's jade ink and cut a zig zag pattern out of it to put on the bottom of the page. It looked a bit too bright at first so I made it a bit more "muddy" looking as below:




I spelled "journal" using mini alpha stickers on a Tim Holtz journalling tag and attached it to the page using a Tim Holtz frame.
Finally I punched holes with my crop-a-dile, and added some eyelets and ribbon, then mounted the whole thing on some rust cardstock.
Thank you to everyone who leaves me such encouraging comments - they are all appreciated. X.

15 comments:

Michele said...

Wow - gorgeous! Love the way you've combined all the colours, I'm struggling this week x

kjjc said...

Love how you have spent so much time on this with all the details from glimmer mist to eyelets and ribbons. Not much time for SC then heh?

Viv said...

Great detail on this - love it!

Anne S. said...

So beautiful, love it!

patcrafts said...

This is really beautiful,very creative.

Laura said...

Loving your makes. Well deserved last week on PDCC. I was so pleased to see your name there!

Paul B said...

You're quickly becoming the Queen of grunge haha. Love the focal medallion design and all the textural details. x

lisa said...

This is stunning. Those colours work brilliantly together and I love that medallion stamp.
It makes an amazing cover for your journal.

Lisax

Hearts Turned said...

Gorgeous journal cover, Anne! You've got such fabulous style!

peggy gatto said...

Absolute perfection, so rich!!!

Hanne said...

This is just a perfect cover for your journal!

Lynne Moncrieff said...

This is my first visit(discovered via Rachel's Blog). Stunning cover with such a sense of richness. Lynne M

Eileen said...

That is luscious!

chris f said...

I love your work, Anne, and this is as good as ever

Mona Pendleton said...

Gorgeous! Love all the detail!