Colouring-in your life: 3. Colour in scrapbooking

Colouring-in your life

This is the third in the series of journalling inspiration based on colour (see Thinking in Colour, Sunday 14 January, for the first one and Exploring Colour on Saturday 20 January for the second one.)

3. Colour in scrapbooking

How do you choose your LO colours?

• From the picture – pick out colours very closely related to the colours in your picture?
• Choose papers you like and then find a pic to match? Or even adjust the colours of the pic to make them fit (making them black and white because they’d otherwise clash with the paper falls into this category). Choosing to wear or even buying clothes because they match your paper also fits into this category!
• Pick the photo first, then choose papers that don’t clash with it.

Some other way?

Take a sheet of coloured paper – any colour or colours – use as many coloured pens as you have to write down as many words/phrases/sayings/quotes as you can think of/look up/collect that are related to colour.

You stop me feeling blue

Colourful language

Colouring between the lines

He led a colourful life

Rose-coloured spectacles

Why not share a few of your phrases as comments on this blog? Or capture them on your own blog - these could be titles (of blog entries or LOs!) for the future…

NEXT: go collect some stash for a monochrome LO (size of your choice).

Cardstock, patterned paper, brads, ribbons, embellishments, pens, etc. Whatever you like.

Now find a small photo or photos with toning colours or adjust one in a graphics program – preferably of yourself but it doesn’t have to be! You could - if you wish - wait until AFTER you’ve produced your journalling in step 4 before you choose a photo…

When you’ve collected your stash, move on to number 4 in this series.