Colour Your World

Today I held a workshop where the ladies made a great colour inventory booklet.   The original instructions for this booklet were posted by Kathy Alt. 

We used Whisper White as the base of our booklet and added Rich Razzleberry and Old Olive to the mix.  The image panel was created by stamping the large flower and two small flowers from Vintage Vogue onto Whisper White cardstock using Rich Razzleberry ink.  The flowers were masked and overstamped with the vine image from Vintage Vogue using Old Olive ink.  The edges were sponged with Old Olive ink as well.  This piece was matted onto Old Olive cardstock and then Rich Razzleberry cardstock with one edge punched using the Eyelet Edge punch.  “My Colour Combos” was formatted  on the computer, printed out on Whisper White card  and punched out with the Wide Oval Punch.  The edges were sponged with Rich Razzleberry ink.  The mat was created by running Old Olive cardstock through the Big Shot with one of the dies from Lots of Tags.  Lastly we stamped one of the large flowers from Vintage Vogue onto a scrap of Whisper White cardstock and cut it out.  A 1/2″ Rich Razzleberry circle was added to the centre and this was added to the front of the booklet using dimensionals.  The long floral image was stamped onto Old Olive cardstock and the edges sponged with the same ink.  This was added to the right hand panel of the booklet.  One edge of a piece of Rich Razzelberry cardstock was punched using the Eyelet Edge punch and added under the Whisper White card on the right hand closure.  A velcro dot was added underneath the right hand side to close the book.

Inside the booklet is a page for each of the four Core Colour families and also the 2010 Incolour family.  There is space to record purchases of cardstock, ink pads, re-inkers and markers.  These pages were provided by Kathy as a download but I have reformatted them so that they are slightly larger.

I also formatted some additional pages so that stamp set and Big Shot purchases could  be recorded.  So the ladies who attended today will no longer have to ask me “Have I got that stampset?”, “Did I order that embossing folder?”. 

And just to make sure there is no confusion when they bring their books to classes and workshops the front page identifies the owner of the booklet. 

To go along with this little inventory booklet we also created a book to record our own favourite colour combinations.

For the covers of this book we used the Very Vintage Wheel using  Old Olive ink and then sponged the edges with the same ink.  The Old Olive panel has also been rolled with the Very Vintage Wheel using Old Olive ink and again the edges were sponged with the same ink.  The Rich Razzleberry cardstock has been punched down one side with the Eyelet Edge Punch.  The focal image panel has been created in the same way as the image panel on the Inventory Booklet.  After the booklet was bound alphabetical tabs were added.

Inside the book colour combinations can be recorded to be reused over and over again.  Not only can you record the combination under “O” for Old Olive but it can also be recorded under “R” for Rich Razzleberry and  “P” for Pacific Point.  I like to record my favourite colour combinations this way because often I will decide that I want to use a particular colour and can look it up to see what other colour combinations I have previously used.

Due to popular demand this class is being held again on Wednesday 6th October at 10am.  If you would like to join me for this class please email me (k.mcintosh1@optusnet.com.au ) to reserve your place.

Bye for now,  Kris.