play date cafe challenge #36

Aren't these colours so pretty?  I just love that Julie and I have different favourite colours, it gives such a nice balance in the cafe :)

There's a little mini challenge within the challenge going on so if you are a fan of Tim's bird cage die cut, head on over to the other girl's blogs.  They have some GoRGeouS inspiration going on there!

Suzanne Czosek

Stephanie Kraft

Lisa Somerville 

[by the way UK friends, Lisa has an article in this month's Craft Stamper :)]

Ruby2Shoes

Julie Ranae

 As soon as I saw the colours though, it made me think about how red and pink just didn't go together 10 years ago; it's definitely a new, acceptable colour combo.  So I worked on a journal page.

I love red shoes, and would have loved a little tiny pair of 'mary janes' for Sophie when she was little.

The trouble was, ten years ago, when Sophie was three, she adored wearing pink.  And back then, you just didn't put red shoes with a pink dress!  How times change...

I'm planning on more little story pages like this which I'd like to bind into a book, inspired by Roben-Marie Smith's graffiti book that she did on a Dina Wakeley workshop.

Lots to see over at the cafe today.  We've had a makeover, have new badges, a guest designer, and see what Sav made otherwise she's going to feel left out! :)

the stamp does it all!

Sometimes the stamp image is just so lovely that it doesn't need much else.  That's how I felt with this tree which I think is Inkadinkado [EDIT: no it's not, it's Autumn Leaves Stampology: Wild Trees, sorry!].  The colours from the play date cafe colour challenge have been going through my head all day, to the extent I've been spotting autumn leaves in these colours LOL.  Anyway, I decided to do some quick ATCs (hope you like it Karen).  I used Adirondack colourwash spray in butterscotch, spraying the card with water after to create the 'blobs'; a Colorbox reddish brown and Nick Bantock charcoal grey to stamp the paperbag studios hole punched; and finally stamped the tree in black.  My colorbox tuscany set has the yellow ochre, reddish brown and grey next to it in the palette!  I couldn't believe it when I saw it!!

STOP PRESS...stop press...STOP PRESS...stop press...STOP PRESS

:) :) :) I made it onto another design team.  The lovely Wendy Gale from the Stamp Attic asked me and I said

YES!!