Scraps and Ink

In LUV with color!

Happy Monday everyone! I am so excited to share a few pages I worked on over the weekend! I am having soooooo much fun playing along with the color challenges at both Color Combos Galore and The Color Room! They both have weekly color palettes and inspiration photos to get you going. And since I have a lifetime's worth of patterned paper in every shade under the rainbow, the challenges are a good way to use up some of my stash. The main goal is to follow the palette as closely as possible, and then you can also use the sketch or photo for inspiration so for challenge #25, I did both!

So first off is this weeks challenge at The Color Room:

 
My take:

 
detail:

 
I really like how the tan cookie in the inspiration photo shows underneath the pretty colors of frosting, so I used that same color as the base for my page. Of course, I followed the sketch fairly close and added strips of patterned paper and ribbons to "frost" my page. :)  I also loved the frosting dots in the inspiration photo, so I used white 3-D paint to add dots to my layout. I dyed a white paper rose to match the palette as well. I dyed the rose weeks ago, and have just had it sitting on my desk, so it was just a fluke that it matched this week's pallete so well! I love the scallop edge of the cookies, so I used four different scallop edges on my page. I used two different sizes of edging scissors and two different border punches to make them. It was difficult to find the right colors of patterned paper for this challenge, so I had to dig thru some really old Bohemia by MME to find what I needed, but I think it turned out close! What do you think?

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The Color Room #24

So I am working a bit backwards, but this is last week's challenge at The Color Room.

 
Aren't these colors just so light and fresh?!!! LUV them!

My take:

 
detail:

 

So this was an easy one for me. Seriously, this page took me all of 20 minutes (not including the time it took to dye the rose ribbon trim- but that only took about 1o minutes). So my blue is a little off and my tan is a little lighter than the palette, but I am happy with it. I love this pic of Andy and I! Isn't it just so cute?! I thought it was kind of funny to use the word "savor" in the title since Andy and I are kissing, but the name of the food and wine festival was "Savor Idaho". So it is kind of a play on words. :) I loved the patterned paper by The Girl's Paperie so much (the one in the background with all the cirles) that I punched out additional circles and just scattered them in the bottom right corner of the page. Kind of reminds me of bubbles. And after drinking all that wine at the festival, I was definitely bubbly!!!

Thanks for looking!

later,

nancy   

I won!

I won!!!! But what did I win? So glad you asked! Let me tell you:

I played along with the blog hop at the Glue Arts blog and I won the fabulous Glue Glider Pro as well as my choice of refill! Believe it or not, I have never used the Glue Glider Pro. I know, I know.....how can i call myself a professional papercrafter having NOT yet used the Glue Glider?! Well, now that it is only a matter of days til this lovely is in my hot little hands, it won't be long til i am added to the looooong list of happy and satisfied users! I can hardly wait!

 

But til the new toy arrives, I will have to just plug along with my old "stand by" liquid glue.

I have been playing along with the color palette challenges at two of my fave sites:

Here is the palette challenge at Color Combos Galore:

 
my take on this palette: 

And two more for The Color Room:

The palette (#22)

My take on the palette:

Some close-ups:

 

 
Palette #23:

my take:

close-up:

 

So I just have to throw my two cents out there:

These are color CHALLENGES. I believe strongly that the point of a color challenge is to get as close to the palette colors as possible. I am no where near EXACT in my color matches, but I come as close as I can cuz I am just "color obsessed" like that. :) Some people playing along have their own interpretations of matching colors, but hey, to each their own.  

Thank goodness for my dear friend Suz, for her keen eye, and similar obsession with digging thru piles of product on a quest for just the PERFECT matching papers to use for these challenges. She is a true inspiration and always full of encouragement. I know that if anyone can be a color master at following along with the palette challenges and make amazing pages that always blow me away, Suz is the one! You can see here work here:

Creatively Savvy

Thanks for looking!

later,

nancy

Color, color, color!

I have been playing along with the challenges at two different color combo sites-

The Color Roomand Color Combos Galore, and have been having so much fun!

This is my first attempt at any of the palette challenges at Color Combos Galore. It is palette #158, and when I saw the light sage green, pink, and buttery yellow, I just had to give it a go! I just love these pics of Anna. These were taken recently on her first day of junior high school. We had just changed her hair color from blond to brown the night before. I had cut her hair and given her bangs during the summer as well, and she now has braces. She looks so different and so much older than last year's school pics. My baby is not a baby anymore! She is really starting to look like a teenager.

 
 
 

 

Next is a pages done for The Color Room. I have been playing along with their palettes for about two months now, so I have several fun pages I need to share over the next day or so.

Disney is always a fave subject of mine to scrap, since I have an endless supply of pics from all of our trips to WDW! While at the parks, it is always a goal of ours to get as many photos with the characters as possible, and with the vibrant colors of all of the different characters and surroundings, I know I will always have a wide palette to scrap with! Perfect for so many of the color challenges at both sites! 

 

These are just a couple of my color palette challenge pages, so check back soon for more color, color, color!  

Thanks for looking!

later,

nancy