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We are back from warm, sunny Hawaiian islands to our own isle with longer days but cooler temperatures. And I think I am now post-jet-lag, which would be fabulous.
Haven’t edited a single photo yet, but posted twenty-five of my favourites here and am so excited to order prints and get scrapping.
Just need to sort a few more little coming-home things and then I’ll be back this afternoon with a supercute guest post!
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Inspired by Jane’s use of acrylic paints in her guest post, here’s a little something to try to get a new look from paints and stamps in your collection. You’ll need a paper tag, a stamp, embossing ink and powder, and a heat gun. It’s easy-peasy:
If your tag is white, add ink in pale brown shades to add depth. You may want to omit this step if your tag already has colour.
Use Versamark or a clear embossing ink to stamp the woodgrain background all over the tag.
Cover in clear or light brown embossing powder and set with a heat tool.
Apply acrylic paint in the colour of your choice. I used Chocolate from Making Memories.
Remove the paint from the embossed areas with a baby wipe or a sponge. Let this dry while you go clean your paint brush.
Add to your next page or card and embellish right over the top!
Today’s challenge? Make something with acrylic paint—in any colour—and share a link with us. Every day this week I’ll be giving away a set of Banana Frog stamps! Today I have a set of Backgrounds to send to a lucky winner—including this woodgrain stamp. Entries close at the end of June!
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This morning Jane Dean joins us to talk about her colour process for her art journal! Enjoy.
©Jane Dean
After a couple of years of collecting books and internet site links for art journals I decided to start one of my own. I just go with whatever my thoughts are at the time of playing with my art box and have no order to my journal at all. I like it that way, no rules, no dates, no times to stick to, just doing what I feel like when I feel like. A perfect project for the disorganised, easily distracted, free spirit that is me.
This page was built on a story of colour. A close friend asked my advice on decorating his living room, a cream blank canvas. He told me that he would really like to have one wall painted terracotta and asked what I thought. After looking at the colours in his furnishings I suggested a particular shade of blue. He didn’t get it. “Blue is a cold colour and terracotta is warm he said. They won’t go.” I tried to explain but I couldn’t convey the picture in my head so I painted a background to show him the colours together. He still is not convinced and has yet to change the cream walls while I live in hope that one day he will believe that I am a goddess of colour and do as I say.
Visit Jane’s blog here and see her work in Scrapbook Inspirations Magazine!
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Happy weekend to you! Maybe time for some crafty goodness! This weekend, we’ll stick with our same colour combinations from last week…which means today is for anything made with earth tones!
Make a layout, a card, a tag, whatever you fancy as long as it features earthtones. Upload it and link it up in the comments here for a chance at today’s prize – your choice of an online class. Entries close at the end of the month!
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The lovely Kristina Werner is here with us today! Thanks so much for joining us for A Month of Colour! -S.
I’ve never been good with color—at least I never considered myself good at color. What I am good at is looking at pre-existing color combinations. For example, I’ll be out shopping and see a particularly nice display in a window. I like the colors. I like the feeling it evokes. As discreetly as possible, I’ll take my phone out of my purse and snap a photo so that I can remember the colors later.
Great color combinations are everywhere you look!
Sometimes the hardest part is making the connection between the colors you see around you and the way they can be combined in a paper project. It’s often hard to look at a beautiful flower and pick out the specific colors that make it beautiful. But it’s infinitely easier to see the color combination possibilities when it’s a bedroom comforter or a shirt.
When it comes to finding color inspiration for papercrafting, some things translate better than others. Or in other words, when you look at the color of certain items, it’s not too far of a leap to see them on a papercrafting project.
Some of my favorite color inspiration go-to items are clothing, home décor, and paper items like stationary and notebooks. Now that I think about it, the common denominator with all these things is pattern. Clothing, home décor, and other paper items often use patterns.
It is easier to see a color combination when it is grouped together in a pattern.
Try looking for patterns and you will find them everywhere! And if you’re like me and sometimes struggle with grouping colors, it’s easier to do so when someone else has grouped them for you! There’s nothing like a cute pattern to get your color juices flowing. J
Now for a Color Inspiration Challenge…
Here are the colors for this week’s challenge, and they come from my boss’ skirt! She was wearing this adorable skirt (which unfortunately she couldn’t remember where she bought), and I had to stop her so that I could take a picture. And check out those shoes! So cute!
Anyway, I want to invite everyone to participate in this challenge. For those new to the challenge, this is how it works: Just create something using the colors above as a springboard for your project. Post your creation somewhere on the internet—your blog, a photo gallery like Flickr, or at a papercrafting website/gallery. Then make your way over to my blog to leave a link so we can see it, too! Just follow the instructions there to paste your link.
For further instruction, please check the Color Inspiration Frequently Asked Questions. You have until Wednesday, June 24, 2009 to submit your link. Links will be closed at 7:00 pm Mountain Time.
After the deadline, I’ll go through all the projects and just pick out a few that are my favorites. There’s no prize or anything—I just like to show everyone your projects! And it’s a chance to spotlight some of the challenge participants. For an example of a Color Inspiration Challenge Roundup, click here.
So, join us! You’ll love it!
Click here to see the challenge at K Werner Design Blog and leave your link. You can also see all the other submissions there as well.
| Kristina Werner, a graphic designer by profession, was bit by the scrapbook and cards bug back in 2005. A year later, she started her blog and it’s been a labor of love since. K Werner Design Blog is home to regular features such as the popular video series Make a Card Monday, the (nearly) weekly Color Inspiration Challenge, and the TwoPeasInABucket-affiliated video series Finally Friday. You can find her work at her blog and also in the Designer Garden at TwoPeasinABucket.com. |
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Two things for you this morning…first, today’s colour challenge involves whites or light colours! Create something with shades of white and cream, make a page with a white background, scrap the photos you took for last week’s matching photo challenge…or whatever you fancy in light colours!
Second, our Month of Colour flickr group is coming to life—check it out to see more month of colour projects from all over the world.
Check back later today—there’s a guest post on the way this evening! Happy Friday!
xlovesx
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©twopeasinabucket.com …click for supplies, album full of pages and info on how they were created
Today’s colour brings us back to blue – so we’re on to blue crafty goodness. The album linked up there started as yellow but I turned it blue (click on the image for more info and samples) or you can just start with your blue photo from last week or your favourite blue supplies.
Whatever you make in your blue crafting, link it up here and share! One commenter will win an online class—entries close at the end of the month like all the rest of the colour challenges!
Happy blue crafting!
xlovesx
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©twopeasinabucket.com
Moving right along in our colour patterns, today brings us to crafting with grey or black! Post what you make and link us up in the comments so we can have a look.
One little tip for shadows on digital scrapbook pages—yes, Photoshop can add nifty shadows to elements in your layout, but you can create a different look with any brush. Stamp the brush design once in a light shade, then make a new layer and stamp the same brush in the same size in a darker colour. Slightly offset the two layers so you can see both and you’ll have a new shadow effect. That’s how I added some depth to the tree in this layout. Super easy!
So what will you make today? A paper page, a digi page, something stitched, something painted…? Whatever you make, enjoy!
xlovesx
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