Hi everyone! Welcome to the Vicki Boutin blog! One of my favorite days of the year is International Scrapbooking Day; such a fun day of inspiration and sharing the love of scrapbooking worldwide! My challenge today is to create a monochromatic color scheme layout. I really wanted to challenge myself to crate a completely black and white project.
This is a huge departure from the usual for me, and certainly a contrast to the color in the beautiful Color Study collection; however, that's the point of a challenge, right? So I just dove in and tried this out. I started my project with Foundations paper and the black Art Crayon. I taped off the edge of the paper and applied the watered down crayon with a brush and a plastic sheet.
I applied the pigment by using a wet on wet technique. I covered the entire white space with pigment. I also stamped the pigment onto the background with stamps from the Color Study stamp set. I added some Vicki Boutin Silver Glaze through the small Bubbles stencil to some areas around the stamped flowers. This adds a reflective texture to the background. The big tip with all of this medium work is to allow things to dry between layers.
I also stamped on some tissue paper with the Color Study stamps and some of the Vicki Boutin black metallic ink. I layered that paper behind my 4x3 black and white photo. I layered my floral cut file behind the photo mat. I added some black washi tape from Color Study below the photo to ground it on the page. I added a circle die cut from an older Vicki collection to the left of the photo. I fussy cut florals from the Color Study Gallery paper and popped them up on foam to the left of the photo.
I also added the camera die cut from Color Study to the right of the photo. I used the Be You from my cut file as the title. I added Black Soot Distress Ink to the edges of the title letters to add a border detail and popped the letters up on foam adhesive. The embellishments in the top right corner add a bit of detail and balance to the layout!
I would love to see your monochromatic layouts! Be sure to share your pages over on the Vicki Boutin Community Facebook Group to be entered for a gift card to Vicki's shop!
Thanks for stopping by!
You can watch this layout come together on the video here:
xxMari
