{"id":6112,"date":"2012-04-03T09:33:46","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T08:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/?p=6112"},"modified":"2013-02-03T15:09:57","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T14:09:57","slug":"colour-combo-and-tagged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/colour-combo-and-tagged\/","title":{"rendered":"Colour combo and tagged"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, while visiting friend’s blogs, I saw this image on Julie’s blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Now I don’t have much with Easter Bunnies, but I DO love that
\ncolour combo the picture shows.<\/p>\n

This image appeared to be a colour challenge from a challenge blog
\nI’d never heard of: The Play Date Cafe<\/a> but since these are the colours
\nI work a lot with lately, I decided to make my weekly page with this combo.<\/p>\n

The Chronicles of Marit – Week 13<\/strong><\/p>\n

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(Size: 24,5 x 49 cm \u2013 9.65 x 14.86 inch)<\/pre>\n
The technique I used is worthwhile explaining because some of you
\nmight be wondering how I got the effect. (You can click on the photo
\nto enlarge for a better view.)<\/p>\n
The photo is cut out from a magazine ad – that’s the easiest part – but then…<\/p>\n
I own an old 12 x 12 template that shows big and smaller circles.
\n(I bought it years ago to cut out photos for scrapbook layouts.)
\nI positioned it on this page and on top of that, I placed sequin waste
\n(the small circles inside the big ones.)<\/p>\n
I covered the photo to protect it from the ink, and sprayed with Color
\nWash Adirondack (espresso.)<\/p>\n
It came out a little too dark though, so when the ink was dry,
\nI used the sequin waste again to smear gesso on some of the circles.
\nThe gesso mixed with the ink, which gave a light brown effect.
\nI painted some of the dots a little lighter with white acrylic paint, and that’s it.<\/p>\n
I love how this turned out: a lot of texture! I doodled with a black Sharpie,
\nwrote the week-title and some journaling in the circles (not too much, as
\nthat would disturb the look, but there wasn’t much to tell last week either
\nso that’s OK) and called it finished.<\/p>\n
On to something else that’s fun:<\/p>\n
I got tagged by my friend Kim Mailhot from ‘Queen of Arts<\/a>‘
\nShe came up with a lot (eleven, to be precise) questions to answer.
\nI don’t do these ‘games’ often, but the questions Kim asked were
\nso much fun that this time I decided to do it and pass it on.<\/p>\n
The Rules<\/p>\n