Week 5 Green Green and Pink

A complete contrast to last week!

I have made some postcards again. Let me know if you would like one 🙂

Week 2 and a new dwelling has been added to Colourful Close.

These are last weeks colours

I was inspired by Rinda to put some words on my little houses.

Hope House, No. 2, Colourful Close.

And the colours for Week 3

Comfort Cottage, No. 3, Colourful Close.

My beautiful dark plum (magenta with a tiny drop of grey) on the windows and doors looks black in the picture! and the grey looks blue! I’ll have to get the little houses outside for a proper photo shoot.

Thank you Kristin

The colours chosen for week six and the last week of this lovely challenge are Sage and Sepia.

One of my lovely ice cream dishes is Sepia in colour

and I have sage growing in the garden so I had a play.

I was in a lovely town near to us and found a couple of interesting things in various shops. The ladies behind the counter were so lovely and helpful and intrigued by the challenge. They were happy to let me take pictures of the colours I was looking for without making a purchase. Well that’s not exactly true. I did buy something totally unrelated to the subject. I am so weak when confronted with something pretty.

My favourite fabric & wool shop also happens to be in this town so I bought a couple of pieces of fabric and some ribbon to make the bunting.

In another shop were some fabulous wall hangings. I would love to give you the link for them but it isn’t working. I know you would love them too so I’ll try to describe them to you. I only took a photo of a small part of one of them so that I could make my index card with it.

So a wall hanging 5ft x 3ft. Based on a Kandinsky painting: concentric circles

Each circle and square was crocheted wool chains. It was crocheted with a small hook, I looked very closely! Every part of every shape was beautifully shaped with the chain to follow the lines in the pattern. The wall hanging that I liked was £260.00 so needless to say it is still hanging in the shop.
Here is my index card before I did anything with it. If you click on the picture you will be able to see some detail. I haven’t finished my card yet. I am having to limit my time on the computer because it is just tooo hot in my room.

And if you wave the card around in Photoshop a couple of times,
this happens

or this

a dress I noticed in a charity shop

and a dish on an antique stall

Six weeks of colour, in bunting now flying in my garden.

Yes there are more than 6 flags, I made two in each colour.

Thank you Kristen for this challenge which was not only great fun but encouraged me to use colours I wouldn’t normally use and make bunting!

If you got to here…Thank you. You are a good and patient person.

This weeks colour choice is Apple Red and Yellow.

I love this colour combination, a real summer colour. The colour of apples and peaches, melons and strawberries, roses and gerbera’s, marigolds and my arum Lilly.

Honeydew melon and my new fan

Strawberry and cream

Beautiful sweet yellow fleshed peaches.

Lemon, tomato and apple apple on a red plate

Gerbra

One of very few marigolds to escape the slugs!

I was resizing the gerbras and forgot to tick the constrain proportions box and saw this…I love it!

My Arum Lily

My latest triangle to go with my Summer of Colour bunting….

And of course my index card for today.
It started life as red canvas with a pretty white spot, now it has yellow flowers attached with french knots.

It is the last week of the Summer of Colour next week, I have so enjoyed this challenge, thank you Kristin.