Monday 13 May 2013

Dictionary Challenge - Letter K

Hi everyone,

So the dictionary challenge over at The Craft Barn blog is onto week 10 and the letter this fortnight is K, to visit the blog for more info on the challenge click HERE

So the word I have chosen this time is 'kook' or 'kooky' and here are my pages:










I have used Alice in Wonderland  images from The Octopode Factory which I think are kooky and eccentric.  I printed them onto card, coloured them with pro markers and cut them out.  I then masked my definition and coloured my dictionary pages using dylusions inks applied with a paintbrush, I used the lime and the grass colour on the bottom and london blue and turquoise on the top half for the sky.  I then used a butterfly swirl mask from splodgeaway with black soot distress ink on the pages and added white acrylic paint on sequin waste to add both regular and reverse stenciling. 

I added the Alice and the Cheshire cat images onto the pages, unmasked the definition and doodled around it in black pen.

I hope you can see my pages ok, I took my dictionary out into the garden to photograph it but the light was pretty bad and cast some strange shadows onto the pages.

Thanks for visiting my blog today, please feel free to leave me a comment so I know you popped by!

Claire x

22 comments:

  1. Hi Claire, the backgrounds you created are beautiful and I just adore those really quirky images! Hugs, Anne x

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  2. Wow, so funky and atmospheric - very cool!
    Alison x

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  3. I love how your real grass blends right into your page bottom! A terrific word choice! How much fun you must have had with your kooky characters! Love them!

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  4. What a fabulous quirky DPS.

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  5. Lovely page...I also learnt a newword today...love your images and very clever to collage them...I always like the dictionary print shadowing through the background!

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  6. Love the Kooky pages and the photo in the grass too.

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  7. Terrific colours and striking images to illustrate this great word

    chrissie x

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  8. It's fabulous & what a great word to choose! Your photography is superb too.

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  9. Great word choice! The colours are stunning!

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  10. I like the picture in the garden, is the white rabbit about to dash in?

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  11. HI Claire, love your dictionary pages. I know quite a bit of English, but this word is new to me. Love it though and love that image! I haven't started yet, not quite sure about the word I will pick. Was debating 'knight'. Hugs Frea

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  12. Well those images are definitely kooky! Love the depth of colour in the background!

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  13. what fabulous pages, love those characters especially that quirky cat!

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  14. Visiting from the Craft Barn - super pages and wonderful characters :0)

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  15. How wonderful - definitely kooky!!! I see you, do you see me!!!
    sandy

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  16. Lovely pages - greats stamps and an awesome background - love it!

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  17. Really like your pages, stamps are brilliant and what you have done looks great

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  18. Oooooh stunning pages Claire....gorgeous background and stamping :)

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  19. Fabulous colours and background detail, love the Alice stamp, great pages.

    Sylv xx

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  20. These pages are so fun. They make me smile. Great backgrounds...so vibrant and textured. Love the punchinella both as a stencil and reversed. The Octopode images look fabulous on this background.

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  21. Love your kooky pages! Gorgeous background and your images made me smile. MMx

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  22. Great word and interpretation
    Thanks for playing with us at the Craft Barn
    Izzy

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