Be a lady

Source: simurl.com via Lauren on Pinterest

Why don't you just [your temptation goes here]?

Sure footing

Problem solving

Another Free class from Jessica Sprague

Jessica is giving away her top 5 Photoshop skills in this free course running from the 18th to the 25th of June. I'll be participating since I will be 100% university free.

Daily Digi Feature Images Contest

Last week I discovered the Daily Digi was running a competition to find new title images for their designer feature posts and thought to myself, 'I could give that a go.'

Because the contest information mentioned vintage posters and a love of creative type, my first move was to check out FontSquirrel and look at their retro font collection. An art deco styled font took my fancy and from there I began some sketches.

Although I knew the sort of feel I wanted for the titles, I couldn't picture exact art deco elements I could include. Google Image Search to the rescue!

One of my inspirations was the middle one of these Art Deco style wallpapers:

Source: Sample Board Online in Australia via Google Images

At the moment I'm working with a palette of deep reds/browns, a little like the reds of the other two wallpapers, actually! I created this palette on COLOURlovers but I'm not 100% sure these are the exact colours I'll use. I fear it might not be bright enough to work with the rest of the Daily Digi look.

Source: COLOURlovers.com

Anyways, we'll have to see how things evolve! I was inspired to include the sea green colour thanks to the site where I found the art deco wallpapers above. Interestingly, the Daily Digi logo uses reds and blue/greens although the green is a dark tone and the red is a brighter tone. I've sort of reversed that with my colour choices!

Are you working on something for a competition? Where do you like to go for inspiration? I often find it will start with a font for me!


Art decoratively yours,
Lozzy

A festival of ideas

Coming up on the 15th of August, the Big Idea Festival will be my first course or workshop through Big Picture Classes. I love words and I love visual art so this free workshop that challenges you to create 12 scrapbooking layouts based on word prompts seems like a fun collision of these two words.

A dress, a brolly and writing letters

Writing letters dress from Ruche

White tutus, feathers and patience

I do indeed

Too-wit, too-woo

I've been gradually reworking my collection of RSS feeds in Google Reader to be only the things that really inspire and intrigue me. I'm trialling the inclusion of the blog print & pattern amongst them. My favourite discovery from this blog so far are some cute-as-anything owl themed plates by Donna Wilson:

My favourite plate is actually the Birdy Walk Dinner Plate. Such cute, simple, clean style.

The Beautiful Things

I'd like to re-dedicate this blog to the beautiful things in life. Sometimes my interpretation of that might surprise you but I hope you're inspired anyway.

This blog is for Smiles, Baking, Arts & Crafts, Words, Pictures, Creation, Faith & Trust, Changing, Reflections, Looking Forward, Encouragement and Dancing.

It's for me, it's for you, it's for God.