Thursday, June 28, 2012
Monday, June 25, 2012
color me monday
I'm in love with these colors. My husband jokes that all the rooms in our house when we are finished will either be blue or green. Not so, I've added a little bit of yellow to the house, for now anyway.
Using Olioboard I created this collage of products in my hosta color palette. What do you think?
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
burlap containers
I haven't had much time for crafting lately but managed to squeak in a few minutes to whip up these containers for our fathers day picnic.
I had saved a few tin cans thinking that someday I would get around to making something with them. Well, I finally used them. I had originally intended to make crochet sleeves for them and plant some herbs in them but that didn't happen. The newsprint was free, the burlap was leftover from the curtains, and the yarn was from the dollar store. I trimmed the burlap to the correct height and then pulled a few strands out to give it a fringe effect. I'm quite happy with them but if you try this on your own pay attention to the news. I accidentally used an advertisement for a divorce lawyer, not what I had in mind for fathers day picnic arrangements. I don't think my husband even noticed, thankfully.
Saturday, June 9, 2012
Thursday, June 7, 2012
playing with color palettes
I've been home from the hospital with our new baby for about a month now. I think I've finally caught up on my sleep (or I've adjusted to the lack of sleep) so while she's napping I'm playing.
I've been snapping some pictures in the garden lately and loved this image. I loved the pale colors and figured there must be a way to develop a color palette from it so I searched the Internet and this is what I found. I found some simple instructions here and started playing with Pixlr and PicMonkey. This is the result. I love the pop of fuchsia.
Since the baby was still napping I decided to play with some of the other features like pixlr-o-matic. Here are some examples of what you can do.
I think I'll be exploring this more in the future, but for now I really must take care of the baby. Thanks for visiting.
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