Living my dream

A new layout for The Colour Room - with a tip for making your own textured ribbon

I love the palette. Such gorgeous colours all together. Would be perfect for the blokes in your life, but I couldn't help myself with lots of flowers and a layout about myself. Eeeek. What's my mantra? Get IN your scrapbooks!

I created my own 'ribbon' by colouring/painting some Prima tape with coloured texture paste, and once it had dried I then added more colour to the texture paste (yes that right, you can colour it too!) and used a Prima stencil to get lots of dots all over it.

This is what the tape looks like when you buy it from Prima.

It's a really fun technique and could be applied to anything. Paper, doilies, flowers. Whatever you can paint over.

And that blue above, is a texture gel which I've coloured with the same paint, just less of it. And of course I've used a gorgeous Prima stencil to create that cool design.

If you want to see some more inspiration using these colours, pop across to The Colour Room.

Thrilled to include The Colour Room in my Scrapbook resume

Really am so very thrilled. I've loved The Colour Room for so long now that it was such an exciting email to open. I actually couldn't believe it. But there you go.

If you're like me and love The Colour Room, then why not have a go at being part of the team? They've having a DT call right now. Check out the information right here.

In the meantime, they've got a new palette up for some inspiration. I gave 'her room' a go with a divine peach/pink palette.

And here's my take on it...

with a couple of close ups

LOVED using the new Prima chevron stencil

The Colour room releases a new palette each fortnight along with samples from the design team. So even if you don't like the palette for that fortnight, the team will show you how to use colours you may not normally use.

If you haven't already, then check it out!