Silence please

Quotations & Lyrics is The Craft Barn blog challenge for 2014.

A new prompt is provided every other week,

leaving two weeks for us to think about & create our artwork.

The current prompts are

Silence & Dazzle

I decided to use silence & my quote is from the author John Grossmann.

This is the front of my bookmark.

This is the reverse.

I used patterned papers by Papermania, Distress Marker (black soot),

Ranger's Glossy Accents, ribbon

& a couple of recoloured images from my archives.

Smile

Following on from the huge success of their Alpha Challenge in 2013,

The Craft Barn is running another year long blog challenge.

This year the theme is

Quotations & Lyrics

A new prompt will be provided every other week,

leaving us two weeks to think about & create our artwork.

Last year I made a Tag Book, so I wanted to do something different with this new challenge. 

I was privileged to have won a prize in the very last week of the Alpha Challenge,

which was £20 to spend in The Craft Barn shop.

After much deliberation, I was inspired by the wooden book & small notebooks.

The wooden book, has a secret drawer.

In the drawer I will keep the small notebook,

where I will keep the inspirational quotes & song lyrics that we discover throughout the year.

So, continuing with the book theme, this year I will be making bookmarks.

These are larger than my usual mini tags, so I will be able to include more words.

I am also going to use black & white as my underlying theme,

with maybe a hint of colour along the way.

This is a reference to the black & white bookprint.

During the year, I will also alter the wooden book & cover of the notebook,

to reflect the theme of this challenge.

The first word prompts of 2014 are

Smile &/or Up

I have chosen smile & my quote is

Be the reason someone smiles today

I have used patterned papers by Papermania, Distress Marker (black soot),

Ranger's Glossy Accents & white grosgrain ribbon.