Liberate Your Art Blog Hop

I joined in with Kat’s Liberate Your Art this year, after watching in envy as people in blogland sent and received postcard art last year.

I enjoyed the whole process and hope Kat is willing to run this great exchange next year.

Choosing pieces of  my digiart to turn into postcards was fun and receiving the package from Moo was affirming.  Then I sent them off and kind of forgot about it all as I pottered along in my normal routine.

Then two cards arrived for me, and over the weeks others arrived and joined them on my display case – so lovely to see them throughout the day and to appreciate the work that had gone into each piece and that someone I had never met had made them and sent them off into the unknown.

My lovely cards were made by

Penny

Kat

Teresa

Nellies

Darlene

Lisa (whose email was obscured by the postoffice’s black lines at the bottom of the card)

To visit others and see the postcards they received go to Kat’s blog and follow the links on the linky.

And a big thanks to Kat for thinking of this and for making it happen.

Playing with colour again

I’ve been playing again with the design seed palettes and multi layer flowers that I posted about last week.

I was interested in the different impact when I use the same palette but place the colours in a different order and created some pleasing pairs which I then placed together



and I thought the design called out for words

I think I could create a great series of cards this way.  Any suggestions for quotes that would work well with these images?

Look Up Look Down for bunting

Shadows are a recurrent theme in my photos so I couldn’t resist this pairing

Yes it was windy which is why the bunting is pointing upwards, but there was enough sun for shadows on the pavement below.

Enjoying the different ways that people are using this meme and the window onto life in different places

Signs of Summer

For the last 2 years I have participated in 2 fabulous creative online challenges and I’m delighted that both hosts have posted their ‘get ready’.

Rinda’s summer photo scavenger hunt has me snapping new images; hunting across town for items; walking along scouring the ground; and visiting new places (a labyrinth last year and an historic graveyard in 2011).  I enjoy the variety of items that Rinda includes on her list.  I enjoy the challenge and having all summer to find the items.  I enjoy the need to be aware of what is around me so that I don’t miss the elusive angel statue or person on a unicycle.  And I really enjoy seeing how others are doing and learning about the international differences on something as basic as a washing line.

If you haven’t participated before then I highly recommend you take the plunge this year – all you need is a camera and a willingness to keep your eyes peeled for the items.

Here are my 2 collections

 

Kristin’s Summer of Colour invites us to create something each week based on a colour, or group of colours.  One of the things that I enjoy about this challenge is that participants use a wide range of mediums so alongside my digiart I will see embroidery, drawings, mixed media, photography and nail polish.  I also enjoy the challenge of creating using particular colours without adding any others.  The challenge involves 6 weeks of creativity and I, along with many others, create 6 pieces that come together, such as a banner or set of cards.  Last year I created pieces to spell the word ‘create’ to hang on my craftroom wall

 

The year before I created pieces using Dr Seuss quotes

and had some printed onto mugs

Each year I have found this challenge and the gallery of work that is shared to be really inspiring.  I’d encourage you to participate in whatever medium you love, or want to play with.

Now I have to decide on the format I will use to display my scavenger hunt and the theme for my colour creations.  And of course I’ll be sharing my progress over the summer.