The mood of muted colours
©twopeasinabucket.com Supplies: Delightful Day free digital kit by Chelsea Parsons, patterned paper from BasicGrey’s Wisteria collection, stickers from Little Yellow Bicycle and 7gypsies, supercute pennant-topped pins by Making Memories, American Crafts Thickers, little letter stickers My Little Shoebox, the scallop sentiment border punch by Fiskars and a lovely white pen to finish things off.
Muted colours, to me, are daydreamy and a bit glacial, like the colours of ice and stone. And no one does those colours quite like Chelsea Parsons does with her digital designs. But why do I tell you this today? Well, aside from it being a month of colour, Chelsea also has a free kit available for download here and well, you didn’t think I could not draw your attention to something free, could I?
Wait. Even better: use this free kit and there’s a chance you can get paid! Check out today’s challenge here and make something with the free kit for a chance to win free shopping money.
But wait! Don’t get distracted by free things and prizes just yet! Let’s talk more about muted colours before you go to do that. Check out the gorgeous colours Chelsea uses in her layouts here—so magical. Although it’s far from my usual scrapping, I love this look with the greys, whites and chilly blues. It makes me think of Iceland.
Oh Iceland. The place I love and yet photographed so poorly. Have I told you the story of my stupidity in Iceland? We went there two three summers ago, in the height of summer. It doesn’t make it warm by the standards of anywhere else in the world, but it has one definite summer trait: pretty much non-stop daylight. This is a dream for your camera, right? Beautiful sweeping landscapes of green hills, volcanic rock, rivers and glaciers, all with light, all the time. Fabulous.
Except the night before we left, I shot something in the dark. So I had pushed the ISO on my camera as high as it could go.
And somehow in my excitement, I didn’t realise this until day eight of a ten day trip.
Let me tell you, that is what I call learning the hard way. I now have my camera default set to 100ISO to force me to dial it up if needed. So anyway…the photos are pretty, but covered in grain. Lots and lots of grain. And as much as I like to use it as an excuse to go back, really it was a serious moment of palm to face.
Supplies: Telling Time and You & Me kits by Chelsea Parsons, Matilda kit by Kitschy Digitals, Peachy Keen Brush set by Rhonna Farrer, Spool of Stitches by Tia Bennett.
But back again to muted colours. I adore this page by Chelsea. It’s beautiful and so unlike a scrapbook page to me. So I gave it a try…and for these photos, I think this may be the perfect answer. I’ll keep you posted. But so far, I have found new love for all things muted. Thanks Chelsea!
Now don’t forget—you can find today’s challenge here—and it ends soon rather than the end of the month, so hop to it! Or if you miss that deadline, make something with the free kit anyway and share it here!
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