Sunday 7 October 2012

Just One Colour - AJ


Over at Art Journey this month they are asking for 'just one colour' to be used in our creations.  So I challenged myself to use blues.  I used denim, faded jeans and broken china distress stains for the background.  I used Stazon Hydrangea blue for their trousers, Adirondack Denim for their shirts and Salty Ocean Distress Ink for their heads!!!  


Then I decided to try orange.  I used Dylusion ink sprays, squeezed orange and orange with a splash of mica which is one from the pre-Ranger Dylusion set.  I used a mixture of spiced marmalade and dried marigold distress inks for the middle of the main image.  I went around the outside frame with Stazon pumpkin.  Once stamped I added orange distress stickles to further outline the frame.


Then of course I had to try a green one.  The background is a mixture of shabby shutters, peeled paint, crushed olive and bundled sage distress stains.  The main image is stamped in meadow Adirondack ink.

15 comments:

Paula Whittaker said...

super set of tags....even though blue is my face colour,I'm really drawn to the green tag....love that AJ stamp.

Godelieve said...

Great results with all the inks and stamps you used. An impressive list of inks :)
Beautiful fibers too.
Thanks for taking part in Art Journey's challenge!

Marianne said...

Great tags, all three!! My fav is number one. Hugs, Marianne

Dianne said...

Hi Sam,, what wonderfull examples of monochromatic Stamping!! It is good to see what you can do with one colouur don't you think?

gr. Dianne

downrightcrafty said...

on catch up busy weekend :) sorry love these but that orange one is so warming you know what I mean, just looking at it warms me, like the image on the green one too, On the post below wow love the chain work and the tiles looks great, and loved your new heart purchases will look out to see what you make with those, and lovely photo's
Hugs Kate xx

Sue said...

Phew Sam, you kept us waiting for the green there lol. These are fab, the blue one is my favourite, but that 'cos I love this stamp x

Chris said...

Fabulous tags, Sam. Love them all but the blue one is my fave.

Hope you're well xx

Jenny Marples said...

Boy have you been creating some fab tags recently. Loved the leaf ones and now these! It is so hard to get a project to work only using one colour and you've done it so well three times. Hugs, Buttons x

chrissie said...

All great tags and certainly the colours sparkle on all of them--wonder where the pink one is lol??

Love Chrissie xx

Deborah said...

Blue's so hard (for me) but your blue tag is my favourite of the three.

Neet said...

Love them but especially the blue one - you got such a range of blues in there yet the image still stands out so well.
Was surprised you chose green - not!
Hugs, Neet xx

Alison said...

A fab set of tags Sam! xxx

Anonymous said...

Nice work Sam!! You were so brave to try orange and it came out fabulously!! but my fav is the green! Susan Ribbons

Karin said...

beautiful tags!

Anneke said...

Love your tags! So nice you tried different colors! Thanks for joining the Art Journey Challenge!

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