Monochromatic with Bella Blvd

Happy Monday! Welcome! I hope you're off to a great start on your work week. We're hitting the ground running this week. I've got meetings bright and early this morning and we've got 3 baseball games this week (maybe more) and at least 1 practice. I'll be buying another bottle of sunscreen for the kids and spending lots of time in the car driving from one baseball field to another. So far both kids are loving baseball, that makes it so much more fun and easier for the mamma.

I also have lots of fun things coming up here on my blog this week too. I'm so excited about tomorrow's Let's Talk Tuesday post. I can't wait to share it!

Today I've got a project up on the Bella Blvd blog. To be honest, this project may have given me a grey hair or two. My challenge was to create a layout with a monochromatic color scheme. I'm not sure I've ever used a monochromatic color scheme, if I did it was years ago. I like to use lots of color on my layouts. As you can see here, and here, and here, color is what I love! I use lots of different colors, all the time. So limiting myself to one color made me a little bit panicky.

What I did love about this project was digging through my stash of Bella papers to find the perfect colors. I love the colors and patterns in Bella collections. They're always so bright and fun.

I chose a yellow/orange color scheme. I wanted to fussy cut my title like I did on this project.

I cut one inch strips of paper (corner to corner) from each piece of patterned paper. Once I adhered them to a 9 inch square of cardstock on the diagonal I zig-zag stitched where each strip of paper came together.
I added my journaling just above each line of zig-zag stitching.

I do love how it turned out. I think I will try this design with a few more colors next time though.
What do you think? Is there a color scheme that is harder for you to work with? Is it hard for you to stick with one color or is it harder to combine lots of color?

Three....Life.Paper.Scrapbook

If you haven't seen the 3rd issue of Life.Paper.Scrapbook you need to run over there and look! It's amazing! (You'll find my work on page 19.)
There is also a new color challenge that starts today. You'll love playing with this color palette.

 here's my take on this color challenge. I had so much fun with this one. I'll be using it again and again!

 

AND this is the amazing prize that is up for grabs: 

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you have an wonderful weekend!

A Little Bit of Everything and the Winner Announced!

Hey there!

First of all I apologize for the delay in announcing the winner for my giveaway for the AC blog hop. I was feeling a bit under the weather last week and a few things didn't get checked off of my to-do list.

Congratulations to Beth from Mobile, AL. She is the lucky winner. 

I've contacted her and her box of goodies is on its way to her.

Thank you all for playing along. I'll be having a lot more giveaways so stay tuned :)

If you're looking for a challenge Life.Paper.Scrapbook has a fun one going on. It's a color challenge. All you have to do is create a project using this image as inspiration.

 

I haven't had a chance to play along with this challenge yet but the rest of the girls did a fantastic job and came up with some great projects. On of my favorites is by Leanne Allinson. I'm in awe with everything she creates! She's an AMAZING designer! 

 

Life.Paper.Scrapbook has a brand new host for the color challenge that comes around every month. It's BIG PICTURE CLASSES! How exciting is that!?!?

 

This month you could win a place in Craft Happy
12 weeks of cheerful projects to celebrate the holidays (and life in general)
LPS also has a coupon code for you to get $10 off use the code GRIN to get this special price and enter the challenge for your chance to win!

Head on over to Life.Paper.Scrapbook for all the details and to link up your project for your chance to win!

 

I think that's everything! I'll be back tomorrow with some fun news ;)