Tuesday 29 January 2013

Alpha Challenge - Letter C

I have quite a few circus stamps and don't get much chance to use them, so when I saw that the letter for the Craft Barns Alpha Challenge was C I knew what I was going to do.



I tore a couple of pages out of my old dictionary and stuck them into my journal. I coloured my patterned background with felt tips. I stamped some stars with white acrylic paint  but the paint soaked up the colour of the felt tips so I drew around the stars with my white Posca pen, but again this soaked up the colour too.
I stamped the images onto white card and cut them out. I decided not to colour them in but just went lightly round the edges with some vintage photo Distress ink to take away some of the whiteness.
I added some die cut letters and a metal letter C
The stamps that I used are from
Stampers Anonymous
Katzelkraft
Artistic Outpost
Hampton Art.

16 comments:

  1. I love the colours on this, you've managed to create the fun and excitement of the circus on your page.

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  2. Lovely pages Hazel, great theme! Valerie

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  3. Great pages - love your harlequin border and your circu stamps!

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  4. Love all the colour, great page.

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  5. Love the fantastic harlequin background, Hazel. A pefect foil for the stamps.

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  6. WOW Hazel...this is a really bright fun page! I love your background! Thank you for joining us again over at The Craft Barn x

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  7. This is a great project to revisit those seldom used stamps. Your put them to good use. Fun pages!

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  8. Very Jolly and colourful Hazel-you have captured the subject so well

    Love Chrissie xx

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  9. Lovely colourful circus pages Hazel so cheerful just like the circus!

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  10. Great pages and fab word to choose, so much going on, wonderful

    Sam xxx

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  11. Love how you highlighted the Circus definition. Awesome page.
    Thanks for playing with us at the Craft Barn
    Izzy

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  12. A fantastic circus page Hazel...those black and white images really pop against all that colour! xxx

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  13. Great use of your barely used stamps, I love how you made it look like a circus ring too x

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  14. Visiting from the Alpha Challenge - this is a fabulously lively circus image. I like the 'Ring' effect you created and leaving the images uncoloured is just a perfect compliment to the 'mayhem' of colours :0) Mo

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