Scrapbook with Split Complementary Colours

We're back with the challenges! This week's challenge on Shimelle's blog is to scrapbook with split complementary colours. I must admit, I read that and wondered what on earth that meant! Fortunately, she does break it down - look at a colour wheel and pick a colour, then go across the wheel and select the two colours either side.

I sometimes struggle with colour challenges but, when I saw these photos of my nephew, I noticed he'd done half the work for me by wearing a red top with lime green accents - all my layout needed was the addition of teal, although, admittedly, I went a bit more turquoise!

The papers on this layout are, again, from my scrap box and are rather old. The red is from the Studio Calico Abroad collection (the white dots really reminded me of the table tennis balls!), the arrows are from the Imaginisce Perfect Vacation collection, and the cameras are from a scrap of a Simple Stories paper.

I'd never used a colour wheel in my scrapbooking before and I'm not convinced I'll be doing it again, but it is an easy way to pick a colour scheme.

Bubbles Fun

As there was no challenge on Shimelle's blog this week, I thought I'd share a layout I created this week from my stack of recent photos. We sometimes look after a friend's dog and she loves playing with bubbles, so I thought I'd document her most recent stay with us.

The Bubblicious paper from the Dear Lizzy Happy Place collection from American Crafts was absolutely perfect for the background paper - the rest of the papers are scraps from Basic Grey, Cosmo Cricket, Seven Paper, Project Life, Shimelle and Dear Lizzy - proof that you really can mix collections!

I also dug in to my stash for buttons and brads. I don't like leaving button centres empty, but thought that threading them would detract too much from the circular embellishment. The answer was some old Gossamer Blue enamel dots. The white dots from the Get Happy collection weren't a solid colour but almost had a clear covering (which the photos don't really pick up), making them perfect for bubble embellishments.

Take Inspiration from a Scrapbook Page Sketch

This week's challenge on Shimelle's blog was to create a scrapbook page from this page sketch.

One of the positives of doing the weekly challenges is that I've found some photos which have been in the 'to be scrapped' pile for some time - these photos are two of those! Some years ago the company my husband was working for was sold. All staff moved to the new company's offices, and this documents the end of an era when the signs came down from the building.

I kept pretty faithfully to the sketch, using papers from Shimelle's True Stories collection by American Crafts, puffy letter stickers from Freckled Fawn and random bits and pieces from my stash. My husband is still to journal on the tags, and he's also going to find one of his old business cards to pop in the envelope too.