I was at the second of my practical ColourTech classes being held at Scrapbook Central today. Gosh I just love to be able to scrap for a whole two hours in the middle of the day!
Today we were working on a Complementary scheme – that’s where you pick a colour and find the exact opposite on the other side of the old colour wheel. The hardest task for me today was deciding which group of photos to choose!
Once I chose these ones of the various animals we encountered on a family holiday, my first thought was *Well, orange is going to be the first colour* (deemed by Mr 5′s shirt…) That made the second colour really easy – Blue.
Now, I do have to say that I had a laugh…. don’t use orange all that much and here I have chosen it TWO weeks in a row!
My next biggest task was choosing how to use the ribbon. In the class I was allowed to choose two lengths. And those that know me will know this excites me: I love ribbon! Yet, I couldn’t for the life of me work out how I was going to incorporate it in my layout today.
I think I need to point out here that I haven’t done the same layout as the rest the class in either lesson as I have so many photos to scrap already; I just don’t want to be printing off yet more for the sake of the class. As a result, while everyone else is lovingly creating their pages as per directions…. I was agonising where to include my lovely ribbons. I think I did pretty darn well.
I’m also liking my AL Journalling stamps….. thanks Meg for getting those in.
Now the other thing I learned today was that complementary colours can really pop – almost too much – because they are directly opposite each other. I took that info on board and I have to say, the different saturations of the colours here work really well for me. I am pleased with the look!
The other thing I am super duper pleased with is that I have managed to use at least 5 of Megan’s ingredients for the March Challenge. I used ribbon (yes!), brads, at least 2 papers, journalling, and rub-ons (in *Australian*).
Next week is a Triadic colour scheme…. nervous? Oh Yes!
PS – See that lovely photo of Mr 5 (then 3) touching the snake? What you don’t see is his mother desperately trying not to put her total and absolute phobia of snakes on to him… I actually managed to say *Oh Look #, a lovely snake* ….. all the while backing away as fast as it was appropriate with a 5-month old in my arms!!
