May 17 Inspiration: Color

Hi and I hope you are enjoying the Weekly Focus Challenges! This is a colour inspiration challenge - or almost a lack of colour challenge: White on White or to me, just plain WoW! (And I'm Aussie so forgive my typing color with a U)

On the page for this challenge, the colour comes predominantly from your photo and helps it stand out all the more (and white will never clash with the colours in your photo!) I love colour just as much as the next person and I know some people will think 'boring' or bland but WoW can be pretty spectacular. If you are still in doubt, think about wedding dresses and how amazingly ornate and beautiful they can be without any colour.

How do you make white on white work? Well to me, this is where texture and shadowing comes in to highlight the edges of shapes and letters including the cut-out parts of designs and make things less flat. Think about using beveled edges on shapes to emboss a design or texture layer styles if your program allows. But in planning a page for this I found it most helpful to think of the many elements that are typically white - lace, doileys, gesso, canvas backgrounds, basic or polaroid type frames and if you think about each of these, they have their own details that can make flat digital 'white space' become quite detailed while not overwhelming the photo.

Let me show you some examples that inspired me (and yes these examples include some spots of colour and black ink and journalling but the idea here is to create a predominantly white page with a focal photo).
The cut-outs in this one by ScatteredConfetti on pinterest - I looked at the shadows and stitching here

the big title wordart on this one by emma_kw from pinterest that also has great cardstock texture

by Waimea Scrap on pinterest - incorporates embossing and patterns with sheen from buttons and layered fabrics, see the frayed edges? Also WoW works with black and white shots

And for added inspiration, this is a more minimalist version by Magda Mizera from pinterest:

And photoless by Denise Bennett on pinterest

And this one is by TLP Designer, Dawn Inskip from her gallery here - yummy texture, crochet/doiley bits and a bit of sparkle!

So what did I come out with?
This was my first one - full credits in the gallery description, just click the pics. I used Dawn's Aged Stucco paper with extra gesso for a textured background and another paper by Sara Gleason from her all whites Albus paper pack to matt the photo. The layers of tulle were inspired by the water spray in the photo; I added some pattern with the vellum striped ampersand and softened the veneer lettering so it wasn't so brown.

Then I wanted to try going WoW with a portrait so for this one I used a Pink Reptile paper that has great stitching on it and I used it over a few of Scrapping With Liz's cut-out templates. I used a worn edged frame and gesso to extend the fence pattern in the background of the photo into the page but softened the gesso and added detail with the lace.


WoW is not as hard as you might think. You can always mix and match bits from kits and the less perfect the match, the more authentic it can look!

One last tip: If you have trouble seeing detail in the white based layouts above, you may need to adjust the brightness of your monitor!

Can't wait to see your WoW pages so if you feel inspired, come back and add them to this thread so we can all see!
Please follow the Lilypad Gallery Guidelines: Layouts must contain at least 50% TLP products (current or retired product from current designers; templates count as 15%.) Uploads must be less than 250k. List all credits; no off-site linking allowed.

 

Loving all these beautiful WoW pages!

 

i will pass on your request to the Powers That Be but i'm cluster challenged so it wouldn't be a post i'd write - if i'm 'freestyling', i tend to add a ton of stuff i love the look of individually, then take 3/4 of it off (and if u think i can cluster from any particular pages in my gallery, my not-so-secret secret is templates )