Scrapping the Rainbow

Kel here, thrilled that I'm still surfing a wave of scrapbooking again after months away from the repositionable adhesive.

 

I'm sure you remember the rainbow cake - either because you thought "yum, I gotta get me some of that!" or because you thought "My word, how could anyone be willing to put that in their body?" Although I haven't made it often, it is an important birthday tradition for me and so I wanted to scrapbook it.

Of course, if you're going to scrap rainbow cake, then rainbow paper is an obvious choice. These are from Echo Park's Sweet Summertime range - Blue Sky and Cool Treats. The die cuts are Cherry Hill from October Afternoon.

Now these aren't easy colour choices for me. I tend to go for fewer colours usually from a more subtle palette, with a fair amount of cardstock. To help me through, I used one of the sketches from Cathy Zielske's class 'Design Your Life' over at Big Picture Scrapbooking. I'm a fan of white space, and the white space in this design makes up for the lack of plain cardstock. 

 

Combining the journalling, title and photos on a smaller digital page made it very simple to assemble. This is something that Cathy Zielske uses a lot and I love the professional look it gives a layout. I love using my handwriting too, but the magazine look works well in some designs and I find longer journalling works better typed. I also like the way that this design allows me to print all my photos and journalling on a single sheet of photo paper. 

Do you find that you tend to scrap using some colours more than others? Do you have any layouts that really stand out as being something out of your ordinary palette?

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Comments

[alexa]

This is lovely, Kel! I'm a fan of this type of scrapping too - very clean, yet colourful and well-balanced. I love that little bit of wiggly white, along the top and bottom - just looks like icing on a cake! As a huge admirer and user of white, I've just produced two layouts using black (on my blog) - and really like the effect for a change.

[Eleanor]

Much as I would love to, I have not the time to master digital scrapping, but this I could do, and I love the idea - pics and words on photo paper, and scrap around it - genius. Your accenting is perfect and takes nothing from the fab cake photos.
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