Let's Talk Tuesday: Using ALL of Your Letter Stickers

Welcome to Let's Talk Tuesday! Thank you so much for being here and for your sweet comments about this new series. If you're just finding your way to this series you can find previous Let's Talk Tuesday posts right here:
Let's Talk Tuesday: Lines
Let's Talk Tuesday: Journaling on a photo
Let's Talk Tuesday: One Photo Layouts
Let's Talk Tuesday: What to Pack When Creating on the Go

Today we're talking about using up all of those letter stickers. I have piles and piles of letter stickers that are collecting dust. I don't use them anymore because most of the letters are gone. All I have left is a bunch of Q's, Y's, Z's and J's.
I decided to see if I could make a dent in all those left over stickers. I created 2 layouts.
The first layout I created I created a fun busy border around the entire layout.

I made a big dent in my stash but I still had a few packages of white Thickers that I wanted to put to good use. I used only white and pink letter stickers on this project. I love the impact of the pink letters mixed in with all the white.

 This layout is one that I created a while ago. Long titles are another way to use some of those letter stickers. This layout features a really long title. (This is a great way to feature one of your favorite quotes too.)

Here's another way to use those letter stickers:

(You can find more details about this project, here.)
Do you have piles and piles of letter stickers that you just can't throw away but that you're not using either? Dust them off and put them to good use, I know you can do it!

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?