Shimelle Scrap a Rainbow-sharing, tips, info, etc...

I think it looks lovely on the grey. That’s Basic Grey, isn’t it? I’m still on red for this class. Summver vacation starts next week though so soon I’ll have time!

I am definitely guilty of doing this on digi pages, it's certainly much easier to layer up all the papers I'm considering and then just clicking the little eye on or off to switch between them.

I love your take on the yellow & grey page, off to the gallery to leave some love.

Sharing here because this layout is purely a product of Shimelle's class: she is changing me from "collection" scrapping to "colour" scrapping. Without her "inky" layouts, I would never have had the guts to create my whole background this way. I used a layering stencil that creates a "bokeh" effect, and changed the colours as I went across the layout to create the gradient from blues/cool up through heat to the red. It took time, but was surprisingly easy and it was EXACTLY what I wanted for these photos! I used new washi tape (behind the photo block), OLD embellies from my colour-sorted drawers, scraps of paper, Heidi Swapp chipboard letter stickers from probably 2005.

layout flamin ramen by kirstendrew, on Flickr

I'm working my way through this thread and you guys are SO inspiring! I have to agree with kitbop, I run out of superlatives to describe the gorgeous layouts.

Shimelle is converting me from collection scrapper to a color scrapper as well. And that came from choosing supplies from the first red page. It was fun to pull those supplies from various collections.

She has mentioned this a few times: she organizes by collection/manufacturer because that is how she thinks, especially after spending time in the industry.

She also said she used to keep her ephemera/embellishments in a bowl just mixed together, but more recently is keeping them in their packages, and she noted how that changed her layouts. From the bowl, she would get more of an assortment but felt that it was a slower process. With the packages she finds it's more efficient but that she might miss out on opportunities.

I have a complete mixture of storage - some paper is by colour, some is by theme, some is by collection/manufacturer. Since I currently kinda know where stuff is, I don't want to resort it because then I won't know where to look!

This is my page for the yellow, blue and pink class. It's not a design I'd normally be drawn to, but I stuck almost exactly to it. 

OMG that couch! I bloody LOVED that couch, it was my pride and joy haha! $2200 at Harvey Norman around the turn of the century. DSO couldn't stand it (I bought it before he was on the scene) and he took great delight in destroying it when we bought a lovely new plain charcoal couch.

All those colours makes it very difficult to scrap photos with the couch in them. I find it best to just ignore them haha.

This one is for the challenge where you pick three colours from a patterned paper.

I'm way behind on this class. I've been watching the videos and Lives, but haven't really scrapped anything. I have used her color theory ideas on a couple of my current pages, I just haven't used her sketch designs.

I just wanted to throw in that I love using oxides, but I don't usually just brush them on and blend them out like she does. I usually use the kissing technique, then use a stencil. Not sure why, but it feels weird to me to just brush it on. It takes a LOT of work to smooth out and blend the colors that way. I like it a bit more...messy...I guess, which is funny, cause I hate getting messy. LOL

I haven’t yet. I need to see which video they need to go with, but will soon!

kitbop, what is the manufacturer of that stencil? I love it and would like to find it.