After a long delay on my part… I finally finished the first set of pages in the colors round robin.

I was so surprised at how difficult just having colors to use was for me. Without a theme, I was spinning my wheels and not able to focus on the task at hand.

The colors were chocolate brown, turquoise and ivory…we could splash black if needed.

This first page was the only one I had in my head from the beginning. This is actually the middle of a signature. These pages will be sewn into a plaster page book for a class, if I understand right.

These swirls are on the back of the signature. You can see the fold mark down the middle.

This next set I actually started with the back. I had the papers picked out long ago. Of course the scan isn’t showing the color properly. I messed around in Photoshop a little trying to fix it but only seemed to make it worse. So imagine the colors are proper…which they are in real life. :)

This is actually the inside of that signature. I liked the poem and the color was  right.

So for all my fretting about these pages, everything just sort of fell together when I put my mind to it.
I sure hope this is what Marilyn is looking for in these pages.

These were some fun pages. I’d do another but the book is getting full fast and there are still two people left in the round robin.

I hope she likes them!

This is my more traditional thought on the theme of Magic.

I really wanted the bunny to be able to come all the way out of the hat but maybe he’s better this way so he doesn’t just decide to hop away. :)

Ok, I really don’t think either of these postcards have any origination in France but “part deux” is fun to say.

I sure hope Teri likes them!!

I mentioned before that I’m doing another round robin. Well, I finished the first spread in the first book.
Teri’s theme is Victoriana.  She also requested that we use a postage stamp somewhere on our pages. Perfect…I already had colors in mind and knew I had a bunch of the same postage stamp. I once again used some fun new bits of stuff I’ve received lately such as the lace and organza.

I decided to use a real tintype and secured it with brads. I think its funny how they went in and gave her jewelry some “bling” with gold paint then pinked up her cheeks as well.

On to the next page…
I have a few ideas swirling in my head but I really must get some housework done today.