Friday 20 March 2015

Alison Newby - Challenge 25


Alison Newby


12 comments:

  1. This is so beautiful such a lovely piece of art work, I love the colours you have used its stunning. I keep wanting to come back and look. Thank you for entering the challenge and good luck. Xx

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  2. Alison, a beautiful box, delicately stamped and coloured, just perfect for stashing away all those treasured keepsakes! Thank you for taking the time to enter Clarity's March Challenge and good luck! ;~]

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  3. Very pretty Alison. Some very careful colouring of the fushias. Good luck in the challenge. X

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  4. What a nice piece of art work love these flowers you have Mae them look so delicate like the way you have done on inside as well good luck in the Clarity challenge x

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  5. Alison this is a lovely box, with beautifully coloured Fushias. A great place to store your treasures. Thank you for entering the challenge. Good luck! xx

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  6. What a pretty feminine box this is Alison. The colour scheme is soft and muted; just beautiful. Thanks for entering the Clarity challenge, and good luck. Xxx

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  7. Alison your box is beautiful. Lovely colours soft and delicate and wonderful stamping. Thanks for entering the Clarity Challenge and good luck.

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  8. I really like your box Alison. wish you had a blog to tell us how you achieved your design. I think it is really pretty. Best of luck in the challenge xx

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    1. Thanks Emma - Not too sure of the techie aspects of blogging yet. Perhaps Barbara could do a blog about blogging for the uninitiated some time!

      I decorated the box for my dad's birthday present. Took ages to decide what to actually do, but knew that I wanted to use the fuchsia stamps, as mum loved them & always grew them. Fitted with his love of flowers also.

      The box was from The Works (my second home after Clarity!) as was the paper that I eventually decided to use to cover it (I think) I stamped the flowers in a matching ink (possibly sweet plum memento ) then set to work colouring them using spectrum noir pencils. I wasn't sure whether the flowers would look right stamped straight onto the designed paper, but I really enjoyed the challenge of making the two work together! A bit of matching card to mat & layer, some co-ordinating inks on the edges of the box that were not covered & that was it.
      Best of all, dad loved it!

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  9. What a beauty Alison! You've done a fab job on this with the lovely subtle colouring - it's so pretty. Wishing you luck in the challenge this month x

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  10. thank you all for such lovely comments! There are some fab pieces in this challenge, I don't envy those picking the top 5!
    Good luck to everyone.

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