Colour is a funny thing. The one day you can love loads of it and the next you need something a little calmer with less colour. I on the other hand love colour and patterns – lots of different ones thrown together and mixed up. Enter Amy Tangerine scrapbooking goodies distributed by The Wholesaler. You are either going to have a love affair with it or hate it – it’s that clear cut – or so I thought. It seems that there is a middle ground to be found in between all that quirkiness and bright colour.

I love the designs and playfulness of this range of papers and embellishments. They are fun and the potential for creating both ‘grown-up’ as well as child friendly layouts are endless. So out I set to create a double page layout using some of my friend’s photos of a recent trip to the Lennon wall in Prague. The photos were perfect but the attempt at that double page layout was just too much. So I lost the right side of the layout and had a perfectly happy single page filled to the brim with colour.

 

Take a closer look

I used a patterned paper as my background and wanted to add some graffiti looking elements to it, so I used my Mister Huey inks to create some fun effects. For the blue I added Mister Huey directly to my craft sheet and pick up some colour using a pan scraper. I then used the pan scraper to apply the ink directly to my paper in long and short streaks creating graffiti looking lines. You can combine a whole lot of colours together for a fun look. For my ink splats I added some Mister Huey ink to a recycled eye dropper bottle. Pull some ink into the eye dropper and then high from above my background paper let the ink drop creating fun and unpredictable splats on your paper. A couple of stamped image onto the Mister Huey inked bits and I am done. It really is simple and fun.

Now that I have added my bit of graffiti I created layered areas on my layout. I create some rosettes using patterned paper and raised the larger of the two rosettes using pop dots for extra dimension.

The beautiful range of stickers and canvas elements work great together. I used different designs overlapping each other and surrounded by a myriad of colourful buttons.

The printed design element was cut from the background paper and added to the left side of the layout underneath the matted photo. Note how the inked graffiti design adds to the layout rather than overwhelming the entire design. It acts as a grounding element repeating the turquoise found in the rosette and sticker elements. The buttons in return creates a flow from left to right and lets your eye flow across the page seamlessly. To finish of my layout I added a title and journaling.

For matting my photos I used some of the patterned papers and plain patterns from the Basic Grey Serendipity paper pad. I love how the colours work together with the Amy Tangerine papers, and although they are not the same shade their tones is a perfect fit for each other. The 6×6 paper pads are so cost effective – not only for making cards but for scrapping on the road. Plus you have loads of colours and patterns together in one place – just the way I like it.

 

How to create the streaky colours using Mister Huey’s Colour Mist

Spray a small amount of Mister Huey’s Colour Mist – Water Cooler (Aqua) onto your craft sheet. Then lightly mist the ink with water to soften it up. Remember that the colours are really intense so what you see is not really what you get – so test it on a small scrap of paper first.

Use a pan scraper to lift some of the colour by dragging it through the ink. The ink will sit on the pan scraper. Remember that an old credit card or plastic gift card will work just as well – whatever you have at hand.

Then quickly in a swift motion, wipe the pan scraper across the paper or cardstock to spread the ink. Lift your hand in a quick motion to end the spreading of ink. Repeat the process as necessary or until you are happy with the look and leave it to dry. You can repeat the process several times and in different colours for a beautiful grungy effect – just leave your inks to dry in between each colour application to avoid contamination.

 

Tip

• When adding different ink colours to your projects, always start from light and then work your way to darker colours. This way you avoid contamination of ink colours and you circumvent creating a ‘muddy’ looking coloured effect rather than crisp bright coloured inks. Patience will be your best friend when working in different layers of ink colours.

 

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Products Used

• Amy Tangerine Sketchbook Double Sided Paper – Lily’s Landscape (AC 35678)
• Amy Tangerine Sketchbook Double Sided Paper – Rose’s Rendering (AC 35683)
• Amy Tangerine Sketchbook Double Sided Paper – Paige’s Portraits (AC 35691)
• Amy Tangerine Sketchbook Remarks Accents & Phrase Book – Palette (AC 42240)
• Amy Tangerine Sketchbook Remarks Fabric Stickers – Paint (AC 42242)
• Amy Tangerine Sketchbook Printed Chipboard Thickers – Woodgrain (AC 53343)
• BasicGrey Serendipity 6×6 Paper Pad (BG 3733)
• Mister Huey’s Colour Mist – Heirloom blue (AC 331019)
• Mister Huey’s Colour Mist – Clay (AC 101294)
• Prima – Doodle Deux Cling Stamp (PM 555184)
• Purple Turtle Double Sided Tape
• Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue
• Glue Dots Pop Up

Post by The Wholesaler’s Designer Jowilna Nolte.

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