This weeks colour choice is Charcoal Grey and Pale Pink.

This seems like a sophisticated colour combination to me which would explain why I don’t have any of these colours in my stash! In the vintage fabric stash the pale pink is teamed with brown…I’m sure I remember that in the 60’s?

I have been wanting to play with my felting things for ages so this might be the perfect project.

I have a very lovely charcoal grey cashmere sweater piece of felt just asking to have some pink flowers or something felted to it.

Bunting felted with scraps of fabric, silk and ribbons

This is the reverse side which I love

I felted some sari silk onto the cuff of the cashmere… a ribbed piece of felt added some glass beads and attached it to some card.
Index A Day Card.

I had a photo of a pink poppy and wondered if I could turn it into something Pink & Grey for the challenge. I was just giving up when I remembered I had some pictures of a venetian blind. I had a play.
This is the kind of thing I was hoping for

Poppy behind the Blind

I was making my picture for CY365 for the 1st of July when one particular blending mode revealed this! I love it and doesn’t it look like the reverse of the felted bunting triangle?

Serendipity

I love how things come together sometimes don’t you?

Gallery Ten. Lime Green and Purple. This is such a fantastic colour combination…I absolutely love it.

My first thought was my vintage ice cream dishes, I just love them. They sit on my kitchen windowsill where I can see them in the sunlight and because I am using them every day at the moment. I bought an ice cream maker and we seem to have a glut of strawberries…no further explanation needed?

Then I thought of flowers, I had a look in the garden and found these

The purple alliums with their lime green seed heads

A pretty purple/blue geranium which I put with alchemilla mollis

The texture is by Nancy Claeys

The mosiac lamp I bought for Scavenger Hunt

Then for the bunting.
While there were a couple of strips of the vintage fabric I used for the last two weeks that would have been fine (and I might still make a couple of triangles), in another fabric hiding place storage box I found some scraps of one of my son’s old t shirts that I rescued from the bin. I was thrilled! Purple with a lime green logo on which I have no idea who or what it is/was.
In it’s new life it is bunting…

Meet Daisy Mop who helps to keep my computer screen clean. She just happens to be purple & lime green…

And my ICAD (Index card a day with Daisy Yellow) for today …purple and lime green fabric with purple and lime green stitching.

And then I had a play with the two colours.

A very productive day.
A very purple and green day.
I hope your day is happy whatever colour it turns out to be.

This week the Colours of Summer are Hot Pink and Orange.
I made some bunting and an Index Card, played with some photos and was reminded that I have a tea shirt in these colours!
Hot! hot! hot! and so it is already this morning and it’s not even 8:00am.

It is going to be a hot day here today, I hope that wherever you are the temperature is just right for you.

Edit. I had so many problems with WordPress on Wednesday when I wanted to post this. It is Thursday morning now, overcast, blowy and chilly!!!

I hope that wherever you are the temperature is just right for you still stands x

Helena and Rinda have inspired me to join Kristin’s Summer of Colour,

For the next 6 weeks a new colour combo will be chosen by a vote on the COS blog. This week, week one, the colours are Citron Green and Turquoise.
Not my favourite colours but they are bright and zingy.
Some while ago I subscribed to a magazine and received a jelly roll of fabric in all kinds of colours, none of which really appealed to me, but I put them in my stash and today, low and behold the outside colours on the roll are Citron Green and Turquoise!!

I had a photo of some pin wheels (I posted it for Project 52 here) I added a turquoise solid colour layer twice and blended with the pinwheels at soft light and then difference and loved the result. I played around some more and ended up with this.

My deck chair pictures were next for altering. Now I am not too good at changing the colour of things by using the selection tools, I try but I need more practice. I like the result though.

For some reason the idea of making bunting came into my mind. I have decided to make a triangle each week in the Colour of Summer colours and at the end of the challenge I will string them all together and hang them in the garden.

Having got the fabric and sewing machine out it was simple enough to cut some very small triangles and stitch them onto my ATC card for todays ICAD challenge

I feel very creative and productive today and there is no-one more surprised than me!
Do you ever get days like that?

The Colour of Summer Flickr page has some lovely art and craft in these bright, zingy colours.

Oh! and now I really like these colours…