Over at Chicagoland Scrapbooker, we (the design team) were given the assignment to scrap with a color you find difficult to work with. Now, I would never say I "hate" orange, after all, I do love my Fiskars/Fiskateers, but I find orange really difficult to infuse into my scrapbooking layouts.
I find it bright, overpowering, and difficult to coordinate with other colors--I can't even get different shades of orange to complement each other!
Here are my tips for working with orange...
- Use a neutral to tone it down. In this layout of "the silliest witch", I have used black to keep the orange from overpowering the layout and the photo.
- Take your cue from the holidays. Halloween and Autumn photos give you a starting point for orange---use it.
- Play off a bit of orange that is present in your photo. In the photo on my layout, her orange t-shirt peeking out from under her cape is all I needed to permit the orange layout to happen. If she was wearing a yellow or green t-shirt, I just don't think I would have chosen an orange background paper for this layout.
Now, it's your turn. What is the color you love to hate? Create a layout with the color you find difficult to work with and link it in the comments at the Chicagoland Scrapbooker post, found here, or post it on the Chicagoland Scrapbooker Facebook page. You have until April 5th (noon, CST). We are pushing you out of your comfort zone...do you accept the challenge?
~Kelly
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