Tuesday 25 June 2013

Summer Of Color Week 3 and ICAD

This week over at the Summer of Color the challenge was to work with purple and lime green.  My immediate thought was the Iris and the garden, and I decided to do a series of index cards based on garden design and it's history - a subject I love and keep going back to.  The index cards are for the ICAD challenge over at Daisy Yellow.   


Some close-up shots of the cards

33 comments:

  1. Oh, WOW! Spectacular little pieces of art; love them!! Especially the beadwork!

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  2. I love these, Diana! They're really beautiful and once again I love how you used the fabric to such great effect on the paper. Love them!!

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  3. Wow, just stunning. I'm lost for words, such beautiful colors. Gorgeous.
    xx

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  4. Wow, those close up shots blow me away, as always. What a great theme to use for these colors! So, do you sew those tiny circles with a sewing machine, or by hand? I don't have a sewing machine, and I'm trying to imagine the old one of my Mom's doing this sort of thing - not a chance!

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  5. ...WOW Diana, I don't know where to begin, STUNNING for starters!, beautiful work, the gorgeous jewel colours are so alive and vivid, and those pretty beads too...what a wonderful start to the day seeing your blog...Mel:)x

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  6. I adore this set - love the colours and the theme and the details

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  7. So beautiful. Love how the colours look together and all the different media you've used. Gorgeous.

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  8. These are so beautiful, great combination of colours

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  9. Love the designs, the use of white and the stitching! Really pretty, interesting and original! <3

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  10. O.M.G! Diana, these are beyond gorgeous!!!. Stunning beadwork and I LOVE your sacred geometries stencil :). I'm so GLAD you didn't skimp on the magic!

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  11. Thats a really zingy colour combination and I love how you have used it.

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  12. I love your beautiful cards! So much work, all of them little treasures!

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  13. Wow! Beautufully done, again wow!

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  14. Hi Diana, I'm catching up on your blog. I haven't had a chance to pop in for a few posts but I'm really intrigued with your index cards. These purple and lime green ones are fantastic. Well done. It's so nice to have an idea and run with it. :) Have a lovely rest of the week, I'm off to catch up on some more posts.

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  15. Gorgeous!! I am swooning at your textures and stitches and beads! Awesome.

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  16. I adore your choice to include the historic garden designs with the natural Iris flowers. Ooh, ribbon and stitches! I am a-gog!! Just extraodinary for the colors, balanced designs and textures.

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  17. I just love what you are doing with this SOC challenge Diana ....absolutely gorgeous!!

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  18. Beautiful interpretions of the theme! Valerie

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  19. fab pages, I love the stitching. x

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  20. OMG! These are like 'works of art'.... real works of art! Amazing. Seriously... the details are just stunning.

    I love them!

    Karen x

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  21. These are really lovely. Love the beads!

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  22. Spectacular colors and work with a strong symbolism. Georgeous!

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  23. So so beautiful I hadn't seen these on the ICAD FB page or the SoC one to be honest so am glad I followed the blog linky :) Absolute, gob smackingly gorgeous, all of them - the colours, textures... just yum!

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  24. Everything is just stunning, the textures, the colours and the compositions. love it all

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  25. This looks great! Love the ICADs.

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  26. WOW!! I struggled with the colours for this week, but it does not look like you had that problem at all. These are all fabulous. Brilliant index cards. :)

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  27. Oh my goodness! These cards are spectacular! I love the stitching, layering, and use of color and texture!

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  28. Oh, my! These are gorgeous pieces of art! SO much beautiful colour and texture.

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