When we were given this brief I must admit, I panicked a bit! Then I thought of various themes where I might have used a lot of black before. If I had been thinking rationally I could have easily created a layout around my son playing rugby as his kit is black, red and yellow. But instead I went to another of my great loves - Halloween!
I created a cut file based on a quote I had seen on various Pinterest boards and I used this as the main focus of my layout with some orange patterned paper behind. I also added a border of paper from the Simple Stories Vintage Halloween collection that I was using for this layout. This breaks up the black a bit more and enabled me to use more pattern on the layout - I do love me some pattern!
Because the quote is quite big, I only had a small amount of room for my photo and embellishments. I managed to squeeze in some more colour and witchy themed goodies from the collection and of course I had to add some enamel dots for more pops of colour.
I'll let you in on a secret (if you haven't seen my Instagram post) that this was the second version of this layout - I knocked over a bottle of very runny glue and it went on the black cardstock. The glue does dry clear and I thought I had cleaned it up well but it turns out that even clear glue shows up on black cardstock and so I had to start again! Every day is a school day and all that...
With love and colour
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