Live your life in color

 

Today you will find me at Try it on Tuesday, where I have been invited to be this fortnight's guest designer.  As I'm sure you can tell by the title, this post is about color.  Those who frequent my blog have read many times how I am driven by color.

I give you Live Your Life In Color.  I have a few close up shots, too.

Live is colored in a deep lavender watercolor pencil.  The font is Tiffany Black.  The letter is outlined in a deep lavender dye ink.

Your is also outlined in the same dye ink.  The font is Rubber Stamp.

Life was smudged with the dye ink.  The font was Scrabble Tiles.  In was outlined in the same dye ink and colored with a deep purple watercolor pencil.  The font was Mona Lisa Recut.

Color was created using stencils, felt tip markers, and two color wheels printed from the internet.  The stencils were outlined using a black Posca pen.  The L was intended to be blue, but I didn't realize the yellow paint beneath it would turn it turquoise.  I kept adding more and more marker ink, which eventually bled under the stencil.

I fussy cut the two color wheels, but I am not very good with cutting circles.

I needed more lavender because I had none in the background colors.  I used two types of punchinella (sequin waste), one of which were the stars you see above.

The other were circles that took the dye ink better.

When I placed the page on the scanner, it curled and distorted the box of crayons I so carefully fussy cut. I originally considered using the phrase "Color your world," then decided on the one I later chose.  I decided to use the box of crayons I printed from my color laser scanner, anyway.

I started by dry brushing Golden fluid acrylics on my sheet of 110 lb cardstock.  I began with yellow, then worked my way to the top of the page with orange and red.  I didn't clean my brush until I got to the cool colors.  You can tell I ran out of room before I got to purple, which is why I used that color on the accents and words.

Thanks for joining Bleubeard and me at Try it on Tuesday.  We look forward to seeing your own interpretation of Make it Colorful.  You can make any type of entry you choose, such as cards, bookmarks, ATCs, ATCoins, paintings, even 3-D items as long as you follow the theme.  Thanks again for this true honor.