Monday, 23 February 2015

Inspired by Italy

Following Barbara's blog and watching her and her design team create beautiful artwork from Clarity Stamp products is what inspired me to set up my own blog, so that I can participate in various challenges, and thereby stretch myself to create my own original artwork.

This month's challenge is Floral. I was inspired by a scene in the curret BBC series "Italy Unpacked", which shows a fleeting glimpse of the town of Matera seen through a field of poppies.

I haven't quite decided what I'm going to do with it yet, could be a card, might frame it ...

Used Poppies and Town stencils. Background colours for the town are Old Paper and Milled Lavender Distress Inks; Scraped texture paste through the Poppy stencil and coloured them with Butterscotch, Pesto, Espresso and Lettuce Adi, Worn Lipstick Distress and Red Geranium Archival.

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9 comments:

  1. Shelagh Metselaar23 February 2015 at 20:48

    Definitely worth a frame!! A big subject contrast between houses and poppies but how effective; it certainly shows the versatility of Clarity stencils. I also love how you have differentiated the colours between the seed-heads and flowers. Thank you for participating in Challenge 24 and good luck. ;~}

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  2. carols handmade cards23 February 2015 at 21:00

    Beautiful art work a very well thought out design I like the colour of the poppies these are some of my favourite stencils you have used. Good luck and thank you for entering the challenge. Xx

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  3. crafty23 February 2015 at 22:04

    Like your card love the way you have used buildings at the back flowers at front well done old luck in Clarity challenge xx

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  4. Emma Burns24 February 2015 at 02:24

    I agree with Shelagh, definitely worth a frame Claire. Fabulous layering of the stencils. Best of luck in the challenge and thank you for joining us too. X

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  5. Naomi24 February 2015 at 09:33

    Congratulation on your lovely creation and your new blog. Thanks for joining in and look forward to seeing more.

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  6. Linda Page25 February 2015 at 09:37

    what a lovely picture you have created here - its amazing where we get our inspiration from Good luck and thanks for entering the Claritystamp challenge isn't it ? congratulations on creating a blog Ihope you have lots of fun with it.

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  7. Unknown25 February 2015 at 13:54

    Thanks for sharing your inspiration for this piece of artwork Claire. Love the combination of stencils, and the contrast between the soft muted colours of the background and the vibrant poppies. Thanks for entering the Clarity challenge, and good luck. Xxx

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  8. Lesley25 February 2015 at 15:02

    What clever use of the two stencils. I agree that it needs framing. Good luck in the challenge x

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  9. Mrs P27 February 2015 at 22:20

    It looks as though we are peering through the flower bed at the houses - what a fab perspective. Very clever. Good luck with your entry Claire and thank you for sharing your artwork x

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