I have a post up at Scrapbook Circle on how to use a mask to add glitter to a page--please visit and get an idea for using your mask in a way other than misting! Tomorrow I will also have a post up at Write Click Scrapbook to give you journaling ideas for year-in-review pages I hope you go there too and get inspired!
Today I wanted to share a couple pages I made last month about my boys using nontraditional colors. I know most people think brown-green-blue when it comes to boy pages, but I love color, period, so I don't like certain colors of the rainbow being under a padlock for boys. When I got some heavy duty pinkish-coral in a kit, I decided to use it on a page about my son overcoming his fear of bees.
Here's the page:
(Quick side note: I had to take these photos about 3 times in December, it was so dark! I just could not get it white enough for the background paper.)
I started with the picks on the white paper, then dug around my stash for some yellow and red to add some warm joy. Again, I used a frame to draw attention to my son in the glorious flower field.
This next page celebrates my other boy's favorite event last summer: riding the high-speed boat across Lake Michigan. My husband had taken a pretty good photo of Milwaukee at dawn with his phone, so I blew it up for the background. It had lots of violet in it, so I pulled a lot of the violet and pink products in another kit:
I added the sequins to sort of draw together the top and bottom of the page. Plus they were sitting on my scrap table and seemed to go color-wise. More on that later this week.
I've been using a lot of Project Life cards on my layouts recently.
Finally, my younger boy also visited the bees at the same time as my older boy. His story was a little different, so I focused on his overall love of nature. Here's the page:
I used Scrapbook Circle's January kit for this page. I loved the add-on Shine Bright for this page; the 6x6 paper was just enough to frame the photo and create the tag banner.
Thank you for checking out these pages! I hope it inspires you to explore some nontraditional color palettes.
Oh these are fabulous!! Who says you can't use pink on a boys page? :) How neat that Rowan was able to get up close with the bees and help him with his fear of bees.
ReplyDeleteI am not liking this cold weather either. We had last Wed. off for a snow day due to the cold as well. Hoping it warms up this weekend, like they are predicting... though I have seen different predictions for the times. Time will tell. Have a great week. :)