The year is 2001. I'm pregnant and spend every spare minute horizontal. I try to run my business from the couch, I use any energy I have with my toddler. (I highly recommend independent children like my girl.) How can I engage in any of my hobbies? How can I bake and sew pretty little dresses and keep a scrapbook of my girl's tender years?
This is how my design scheme system was born. (What's a design scheme? Read this post.) Like many great ideas, it came from necessity. I love to scrapbook in the moment, real life as I know it. The bits and pieces. The big things, the little things. I keep my scrapbooks chronologically, but that doesn't mean a layout about this year's trips to the cabin can't include memories of all the books I've ever read on the pontoon boat.
The first scheme I'm going to share with you will not be intimidating. In fact, given my creative track record, it's almost a little embarrassing. But I love it. I love that I made it happen. I love that it set a whole process in motion that I am still using -- and loving -- seven years later.
Paper: Bright solid colors (pink, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple)
Embellishments: um, what?
Titles: stylized letters in watercolor, outlined in ink (could easily substitute a font or stickers here)
Techniques: torn edges; titles are all on white cards with edges torn & then watercolored; plain photo mats
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