This week’s palette for the Summer of Color challenge is two greens and a pink. Each week I make a small journal in which to record the week’s highlights. My project parameters are using only things readily available within arm’s reach of my studio table; I must include at least one piece of handmade paper; and somehow incorporate a flower. I’m calling these my garden series. Here’s what I created this time:
The pink is the handmade paper, and I remember with great fondness the day I made it. My hands were colored for days, and I thought it was wonderful. I felt like I was blessing everything I touched with a bit of joyful heart energy. I chose the green papers to use based on how they matched the pretty little flower cabochon. It’s a left-over from a project in which I used them as drawer pulls for a tiny chest of drawers. I confess I almost always switch out the drawer knobs and pulls on things. It’s probably related to my love of drawers and chests themselves – why should they have boring knobs when something wonderful is possible?
I DO love greens and pinks. They’re colors associated with the heart chakra, and my world is filled with them. I was actually quite surprised when as I paid attention today to just how many examples of pinks and greens surround me.
I have a lovely set of celadon green china and a set of fabulous dusty pink plates and I often use the settings in combination. The pink plates are real treasures – vintage ware from a time when train travel included world-class dining cars.
Speaking of vintage, one of my favorite pink and green items is a lone polka dot glove that came to be via a mailartist friend at a time when I was doing a series on fashionista fabulousity. How I love to think of what wonders that glove has seen. I mean seriously, pink and green polka dots! Here’s where it lives now, on one of my bookshelves devoted to my collection of hands and books about them.
I’m also crazy about watermelon tourmaline. I have a gorgeous ring which may be one of my favorite pieces of jewelry ever, and I also love these tourmaline earrings as well.
Here’s another piece of pink and green jewelry I love – a pendant with cobalto calcite and malachite.
Lots of lovely heart energy there. And here too, in this pretty pink lotus.
I look forward to poking around and seeing what everyone else playing in Summer of Color challenge has come up with this week. And I’d love to hear what you think about pink and green; if you pay attention to your chakras; or what’s sparking your heart energy lately. Do tell – you know I love to hear.
Well I am just loving your post ~ From top to bottom. What a talented gal you are. Such a volume of variety and special things in todays post. All of my Art is either in Watercolor which is my passion or in the Kitchen with my baking. I’ve got the title of Cookie in my complex and bake cookies once a week for the children that live in our Senior/Family Complex.
I love that you make your paper…and your dishes and jewelry is so beautiful. I will visit you often, I sure.
Thanks for the kind words Wanda. And how fun you’re called Cookie. What a delightful task you’ve taken on. Cookies are the perfect currency of love aren’t they?
Great use of the colors! I can hardly believe you made such vibrant paper!! Mine always turns out pale.
Thanks for stopping by my blog as well!
I used fabric dye for silk in the pulp, and the pulp contained lots of silk threads.
I enjoyed stopping by and seeing what you did this week – it’s always fun to see how everyone is playing.
Lovely post Deborah thank you for sharing. I love green which is why I must be feeling green (with envy) at the moment at your amazing creativity! Pink is not my best though with green they work! Like oink and green icing on a cup cake?
I used your comment on one of my posts a day or two back ..it was so lovely thank you.
LOL – a cupcake makes any color icing look good.
Your blog posts are always so thought provoking, and it’s a pleasure to read the dialog your community so generously responds with. It’s lovely to participate.
Love the journal today along with that lush pink handmade paper.Very, very nice. x
Thanks Sue. Wishing you a week filled with lush and luxe color!
such a lovely and unique journal
sweet jewelry and photos also
Thanks Tammie. Have a delightful and color-filled week and see you for the final round.
I have loved seeing all of your beautiful little art journals, and this one is no exception! What gorgeous work! And I loved seeing the photos that you shared. That pink and green polka dotted glove is simply amazing! I the jewelry and gorgeous flower, too!
It’s such fun peeking into each other’s worlds isn’t it? That one of the reasons I enjoy seeing your spreads as well. Wishing you a fabulous color-filled week.
wonderful samples with the Colors of the week!
It’s such fun to see what shows up each SOC week isn’t it?
So beautiful and tactile, I like them.
Love and hugs
Maarit
Thanks Maarit. Have a wonderful week and I look forward to see what you’re creating next.
Super little journal and I love the lotus plant photo too, BJ
Thanks BJ. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a lotus I didn’t love, and they automatically have me dipping into serene energies. Can’t argue with that.
Such a lovely little journal and that pink paper is so pretty.
Thank you. Wishing you another wonderful week of color Deb.
Very creative with the colors. I love it.:)
Thanks Gloria. Wishing you a colorful and creative week and see you for the next round.
a wonderful post full of beauty and treasures-love that lotus photo!
Thanks for stopping by Linda, and wishing you a week filled with treasures and beauty and plenty of color.
Pretty, pretty, pretty! I loved seeing this work!
Thanks Mary Ann. Here’s to a week filled with color and fun.
I love your journal and your philosophy of weekly art!
So glad you stopped by to say hi Electra, and wishing you a wonderful color-filled week.
what joy it is to make and then use hand made paper! Lovely composition!
(Love the lotus flower photo too)
It is! Thanks for the kind words, and wishing you a joy-filled colorful week.
Lovely, looks soft and you just want to stroke it!
It is very soft indeed. Thanks for stopping by Susan and have a wonderful week.
As a fellow handmade paper maker, I applaud you for using it each week. I’m waiting for a week when I actually have a color that I still have paper I can use. I really like your jewelry and your lovely photos, too. I think these weekly journals are going to mean a LOT to you at the end of summer.
Here’s hoping we get a palette suggestion that allows you to use your paper Elizabeth – I can’t wait to see. And you’re right – these little journals have become a lovely little part of my summer.
I like what you’re doing very much. It seems a very spiritual approach to being a maker. There’s something very captivating about your handmade paper. As a painter, I think pink and green are interesting together. Warm and a cool-warm together, depending on how blue the green is. This combination exists in nature frequently, especially during the spring and that is when I seem to work with it the most, although my echinacea has bloomed, so I’m using it now too in my paintings.
Oh I hadn’t really thought about the pink/green combo as primarily a spring garden palette but now that you’ve said it, I can so clearly see how true that is. And one of my favorite examples is my glorious bleeding heart. But I’m glad echinacea brings us into the summer – they are wonderful plant allies and so lovely as well. And how great you’ve got them in your garden and your paintings!
Thank you for playing! xo
Thanks so much for hosting Kristin. I love playing and I love checking out what others are creating as well. The perfect color treat.
Wonderful combination, I love those handmade papers! It must have been great fun to make them. Beautiful post!
Making paper is a deliciously messy, often sloppy, fun endeavor. And afterwards you have something to use. How does it get better than that? 🙂 Thanks for stopping by and wishing you a wonderful week.
Beautiful post….so full of sparkling photos of past and present and creative bounty….just lovely! I adore pink and green….just have a look in my closet! Of late though, I have been finding myself drawn to the coolness of blues and greys and white. Maybe that is the summer heat or maybe me trying to find a bit of tranquility in my busy life these days. OH!…the polka dot glove….so special….you are so lucky to have that very special treasure!
I love how we find ways to surround ourselves with color, both celebrating what we love and invoking what we wish for. Wardrobes are really fun for that. Wishing you a good dose of tranquility amidst great creativity. 🙂