Sunday, July 5, 2015

A red, white and blue summer

Red, white and navy are fresh summer colors. Add polka dots to the mix, stir in a bit of summer feel and vacation mood and you've got yourself some fresh looking cards.


Simon Says Wednesday challenge wants to see polka dots. No, actually they say "going dotty", a word that I took firstly for dots and secondly for being dotty, that made me add some delightful nonsense:

"Hi! Are you looking for something?"

"How weird. I seem to have my shoes on."

I was influenced by a few other challenges as well:

Wicked Wednesday ATC Challenge asks for red, blue and white. I think my atc's are not very wicked, but I'll enter them anyway, just because there are so few ATC challenges around.
PaperArtsy #12 calls for stencils. They have a lot of inspirational technique videos for us. I was very inspired by stencil bumping.
 Simon says Monday wants to see how we interpret summerStamps & Stencils calls for vacation mood.

Background was first stenciled with red acrylics, then with navy chalk. The retro ladies are from a 1950's sewing pattern sheet for beach shorts, found text from a novel, and flowers were stamped onto a paper napkin and colored.
Thanks for looking!

9 comments:

  1. Haha, I LOVE your take on "being dotty" - so clever! Love the colors, and the inking is just amazing!!

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  2. Love these ATC's. The backgrounds are gorgeous! Thank you for sharing your work with us this week for the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge.
    ~Michelle

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  3. These are so cool! Thanks for playing along with us at Wicked Wednesday. :)

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  4. Uskomattoman upeita. Varasin sinulle lintukortit/muotiluomukset, en vain ole ehtinyt viestittää. Olisiko nämä ihanat väriterapiat varattavissa

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  5. These are great ATC's, love the retro feel. Thanks for joining us at Wicked Wednesday:)

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  6. Fabulous ATCs! Love the dotty sayings! Thanks for joining us at Stamps and Stencils. Sue C x

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  7. Sensational! I see a lot of red and blue projects that actually look purple, but you handled the colors perfectly! Well done!

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  8. The colours made me think of france, stunning ATC's and thank you for joining us at Stamps and Stencils...
    Sharon x

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  9. I love your ATC's with their decidedly holiday feel! Dots always work for me - as does being dotty!! Apologies for my late visit but thanks for joining us at Stamps & Stencils. Julia x

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