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.
I absolutely love your post! Your photographs really portray this week’s color scheme beautifully!!! I love what you did with photoshop, too!
I LOVE the juxtaposition of the ice cream bowl & the sage leaves!!. COOL!. And your happy banners looks amazing in the sunlight & gorgeous blue sky!.
You are great with PS. And with your camera, too, I might add. Loved the one where you used your own sage. And of course, I adore those buntings. They are simply adorable. This is the perfect entry for the final SOC colors.
My goodness, your bunting is absolutely superb!
I’ve enjoyed seeing this weeks colour combination – how you layer the images is very cool!
Your bunting is just wonderful! You’ve found, once again, some lovely examples. I especially like the results of the first Photoshop experiment.
cool……the bunting is a great idea.
Wow you managed to make my least favorite colors gorgeous…and it just dawned on me why I didn’t like them much…because they are too close to avocado green and harvest gold that was the rage in the early seventies… I had a fridge and stove that color and a couch avocado green. I loved it all back then! I think I over dosed on it!!!! lol Love how you manipulated the colors in photo shop…really beautiful!!
Hugs Giggles
oh and oh and oh – so much loveliness. Adore the hanging you describe and the small piece you showed (would love to try making something like that) and then the pixel magic versions are fabulous and your bunting is a wonderful reminder of the fun of this challenge
xo
You are so welcome – and I have loved seeing your bunting come together! Wonderful results, xoxo
Great post!! I love the ice cream dish, and the effects you created in Photoshop. The wall hangings sound wonderful. Love your Photoshop effects there, too. But mostly I love love love your bunting! Such a wonderful souvenir of the challenge. I hope I can remember that next year so I can do it, too!
I love your bunting this week, and your glass/plant photo creation is so imaginative! I love it!
Rinda
I adore your ice cream dishes. Adore. Your inspiration photos are wonderful. So beautiful. The crochet stitches are amazing and it is incredible to see what you did with it in photoshop.
Love the bunting and seeing them all together is amazing. Great work. 🙂