Working With Crazy Colors

Halloween, like many other holidays, can result in some brightly colored photos. With all of the costumes, you could have quite a few crazy colors to work with, which could become a problem for you when you go to scrapbook the holiday. There are a number of options to fix this.... you could print your photos in black and white, but sometimes all the colors of the season are a part of what you want to capture. You could coordinate your children’s costumes... but sometimes they just won’t cooperate. Another option is to just go with it and use a simple color scheme to reflect the holiday without being overwhelming.



The last option is the one that I chose to use for this page. I had five pictures. Some were from my digital camera, some were from my old APS camera, and some were given to me by friends. When I got around to this layout it was late and night and I didn’t really want to scan them and order prints, or take them to one of the printing kiosks to see how they’d look in b&w or sepia. Instead I decided to keep the color scheme really simple: dark gray, black, white and orange. The die-cut mini-pages from Teresa Collins were the inspiration. I searched through my stash and found this old paper from Scenic Route to coordinate. The orange dot works with the die-cuts really well as they both have the same color and the simple, clean feel. The orange is almost a little burnt and brown looking, making it seem to be even more of a neutral.

Thanks for stopping by!
erin