Another week for Elements, this time focusing on color.
The assignment was to convert the photos to black and white so you could use your favorite colors. I decided not to do that since the photos were pretty monochromatic, and using my favorite color (red) was not a problem.
I took these photos for my Christmas Journal, but decided to do a page for this album, too. It's almost a completely digital page, but I wanted a textured background paper and I added the snowflake to pick up the silver from the main photo. This green is not a color I would usually scrap!
I really "broke the rules" on this one. You were supposed to pick out four colors in your photo and use three of them to choose your papers. After I finished the layout, I found a more recent photo of the two of us with a lot more color in it. Oh, well. I like the layout, even though I didn't follow the rules.
The little scalloped edge was cut with my new paper cutter. I've been having a lot of trouble getting a straight cut from my Fiskers cutter. I think the fold-out arm is the problem, so I used a 50% coupon and bought the Purple Cow dual cutter at AC Moore yesterday. At first I wasn't too sure I would keep it, but I've used both the guillotine and the rotary cutters today, and they both seem to give straight cuts. Along with the variety of blades (and ease of changing them), I like the guidelines on the cutter and the way the paper guard literally locks the paper down to the cutter so it doesn't move.
