The Color Room #87 - Untitled

I really love the fun palettes the Color Room provides, and I love that they add a sketch. I loved the sketch this week, but really didn't have the photos to make it happen... so that one is filed away for future use...

Anyways here is the fun palette:

 

The yellow and grey right away reminded me of some of my Cosmo Cricket EverAfter paper... but other than that, I was stuck. I picked out a blue paper and flipped through photos til I found the car my Best Man gave me for my wedding...

So I used the blue to mat the two photos of the model car, and then I inked the mats with some Wild Honey Distress Ink to bring in some more yellow. I also inked the edges of the yellow circle of CC with Wild Honey (opted not to use the yellow and grey side). For the large blue circle, its the same paper as the mats but uninked and I used Champagne Versamark to add the pattern to it. To add the "silver bells" I used these shiny silver accents all over and two little Jolee's silver flowers. Finally, the "linen white" is in the background paper, and the yellow strip across the middle.

As yet, this layout is going un-titled. I am really unsure what to call it and want to watch the wedding video and maybe add a quote from Alex's speech all about how he ordered me a new car. I was thinking about 1/24th of a car or something like that (its a 1/24th model) but I don't know yet :)  I also think I want to get some shiny silver alphas to title in... but again, not sure either lol.

Thanks for looking, and if you have a title idea, please help me out lol!

The Color Room #84 - The Cog

The Color Room brings us fun palettes every week to base a project on. This week's is shown below. It is a whitewash palette, meaning you can add no neutrals to the palette - what you see is all you get.

 

They also provide a totally optional sketch to include with your palette:

I thought with the woody colors it would be perfect to set off more of the photos from the cog (see my entry for the Paper Variety Smile challenge to get the full story).

I couldn't find the exact colors I wanted so improvised with three browns to match (the third being the Walnut Stain ink).

Everything came from the stash - nothing special or new here. I did use my new Martha Stewart letter stamps for the title with the Walnut Stain distress ink.

Here's a hint: if you are having a hard time getting your Distress inks to stamp easily, there are a few things you need to do:

1. Store your inks upside down. All your inks should be stored this way, but it is especially important for the distress inks to keep that pad moist for when you need it
2. Spend a good amount of time charging your stamp with ink. I press and hold then wiggle rather than dabbing and I have pretty good results. Generally I count 10 wiggles (side to side, top to bottom) to fully charge the image

Thanks for looking and I hope that tip helps you all out!