Make Your Own

Today's tip is for those of us who are very picky about what color of papers go together.  If you're like me, too often you find that you just don't have the right color!  What to do?  Make your own!

Here's a scrapbook page I made where I ran into this challenge.

I had a beautiful hand-made paper for the background that coordinated well with what a couple of the women were wearing, but I just didn't have anything that would coordinate with it.  So, I took a paper where I liked the pattern, scanned it in, then used the color changing options in my photo program to change the color from a green to a peach!  Since I was printing it anyway, it was easy to add the journaling directly to it.

This next page was also challenging.  I had hoped for a brown that would coordinate with my photos, but none of the browns I had seemed to be the right color.  So . . .

I blew up one of the pictures of an echidna and printed a close-up of their furry quills to use for the background.  Then I printed the pictures, title, and journaling complete with the brown mat surrounding them.  Where there's a will there's a way, I guess!