The Color Room Anual BLOG HOP.

Welcome to The Hop!!!!
Hope you are enjoying yourself so far!

You have just come from LENE's Blog 
Wasn't her project amazing?
I am always blown away by her designs

 So here is what I created using this weeks #50 Whitewashed Palette

         

I had a great time with the palette this week.  I adore these whitewashed monochromatic palettes.  I used Rock-a-fella blue SHIMMERZ vibez and Emerald Isle Pearlz

should you get lost of someones post is not ready yet here is the line up
THE COLOR ROOM   
ALEXANDRA   
ANNA (Finn)  
EMELINE       
EMMA S         
EMMA T      
HEIDI             
JANINE         
JENNIFER    
JING-JING    
JULIE B
JULIE W       
KAROLA     
LARISSA      
LEEANN        
LENE            
LYDELL  --------YOU ARE HERE
MELISSA       
NAOMI       
NICOLE      
PHILLIPA (RDA#10)  
RONDA         
STACEY        
STEPH            
TAJANEE (RDA#10)  
TOMOKO     
THE COLOR ROOM   

 

UPCLOSE AND PERSONAL.......a bit about me you may not know.....

1.    I am from Adelaide in South Australia, and I am an educator for both Shimmerz Paints and Helmar USA,  I also run, design, make palettes and draw sketches for The Color Room's Website.

2.    I Live with my DH, a DS 8, a DD 6, a Boxer(dog), a Russian Blue(Cat), a cockatiel, a Lawsons Dragon and some goldfish

3.    On my desk right now you will find The Layout for this palette, my art journal some replenishment Helmar products I just received, my video camera, brushes, heat gun, water jars and a little tub of odds and ends which have no home!!!!

4.    My favourite colours to work with at the moment are aqua blue and light bright orange

5.    What kind of themes do you often scrap? I like to record moments and the everyday stuff.  Things have already changed so much since the kids were very small and I appreciate the layouts I have done on what the kids liked or did at certain ages, or what the kids rooms looked like back in 2007 already very different to now.

6.    Where do you scrap?  I scrap in our open plan dining/lounge room, right where everyone is.  I like to have company rather than being alone, so this suits me fine.

7.    What is your scrapping process?  I usually pick my photos first and see what inspires me, a great topic I am looking forward to recording or just a good photo often helps me with my selection of papers and embellishments, lastly I dream up my Title and then my journaling.

8.    My favourite food is a good Lasagne or pasta meal

9.    My top 3 favourite tools are my guillotine paper trimmer, my cropodile and my bind it all.

10. I get my inspiration from everywhere I look- mainly advertisements, website layouts, magazines and decor sites,  TV Shows and ads....the list goes on.....

11. Describe a Technique you used on your project this week

                A technique.....mmmm.......My Layout is a fairly simple one 'technique wise' this week.  I can tell you how I created the background though....
  I used a palette knife and spread thick white paint roughly and with texture over the area I wanted to 'frame' my photo.  I dried this with a heat tool.  Then I found some transparent celophane with a pretty white swirl print on it, which I kept from some flowers John bough home for me the other day.  I tore this haphazardly and then used V2 Vellum Adhesive (Helmar) to stick it down, arranging the swirls as I went.  Then I stitched a square in straight stitch on my machine, which forms a more geometric frame around my photos.  I spritzed this with SHIMMERZ VIBEZ ''Anchors away" just lightly.  And voila.....a background!

If you want an extra challenge this week, My tip would be to find something 'found' or recycle something to use in your project this week......You can certainly have a go painting your background frame, and maybe stitching paper, surviettes, vellum or celophane/transparency....(only limited by your imagination!)

Now all you have to do is leave a comment on this post and answer the following question
WHAT IS MY FAVOURITE FOOD? (question 8)  A hard one!!!! LOL

 Thanks so much for joining me here today.  I will see you back at TCR.
 now you are heading to MELISSA'S BLOG