Congratulations with Beads

Just a quickie - been away at a christening over the weekend with no internet access - it's taken me ages to catch up in blogland!

Ok - this is for five challenges:

MUSE - inspiration provided by my blog friend Ardyth:

Paper Smooches SPARKS - inspiration from this photo:

A Blog Named Hero - Freestyle

Less is More - Recipe USE BEADS, and finally

Pattern Play - all the fun has finished, but I still wanted to link up my homework.

Off to a silk painting class...

Divide and Conquer

Day 3 of Pattern Play was all about using loud in-yer-face patterns and how to calm them down.  One treatment is to chop them up - divide and conquer! (That was our motto for dealing with our two kids when they were loud and in-yer-face btw.  Dividing and conquering.  Not chopping them up.)

I went a bid mad with the homework and made four cards using the same technique.  This first one I'm entering into the MUSE challenge which has Marion's card as the inspiration:

Hopefully you can see what inspiration I used for my card, but just in case - the large flower images and the blocks (mine are of DP rather than different shades).

Here are the four loud patterns that I worked with for my homework:

And here's the rest of my homework:

When I started this post, I had chosen this one for the MUSE challenge, but as I was uploading the photos, I changed my mind to the pink and plum one.  I might add some bling to the flower centres to this one to make up for rejecting it.

For the next two, I couldn't decide which sentiment/border to put with which card as each one changed the emphasis of the colours in the background.

So here's what I decided on - mainly because the green panel wasn't quite wide enough to sit on the pink card.

Back to school for Lesson 4 - I'm still behind!

More Pattern Play

When I finished Day 2 of Pattern Play last night, it was too late to start my homework, so I've been a busy little bee this afternoon, catching up so that I don't get detention at the end of the week.

I used a piece of blue gingham paper and resist-embossed the floral background stamp with Versamark, then covered it in Memento Danube Blue ink.  I blotted the excess off with a tissue then I ironed out the embossing.

The yellow flower is also a gingham pattern, which you can just about make out.  I've used the colour scheme from this week's ColourQ:

I'm rushing back to the classroom for Day 3.  I was never this keen at school ...

Hero Arts 3255R Signature Background
Craftwork Cards flower
Watlzingmouse sentiment

I'm Late!

I'm late on two counts.  No, wait - three:

• Joining The Pattern Play online card class
• Handing in my Day 1 homework (nothing's changed there, then)
• Joining the baker's twine trend (can you believe that I've left it till now?)

I joined my first ever online class, Pattern Play, last night so I'm nearly two days behind most people.  And I don't want to do the Day 2 lesson until I've finished and posted my homework for Day 1.  So today, I've spent a lot (and I mean a LOT) of time sifting through a few boxes of patterned paper and snippets, sorting them according to the principles learned in Lesson 1 in the hope that it would make it easier to use patterned paper.  And it's starting to.

Since I started blogging my style has gone CAS-er and CAS-er, which doesn't help the enormous stash of patterned paper that I have.  So when therapy comes along in the shape of a class on using patterned paper, there was only one thing to do - join in!

So here's my homework for Day 1, but just to complicate things, I've used the sketch from The Paper Players:

I'm off now to look at Day 2.