Monday Challenge: Colors

Hi everyone, Mou here with today's challenge. I'm fond of colors and so I have a color challenge for you!

Found this at Design-seeds.com.

The palette is close to the new Travel Girl collection from October Afternoon. So I picked these papers from the collection to make my layout

Passport

Camera Bag

Mix Tape

Train Case

And here's my layout:

I punched hexagons from the above papers and arranged them on a white cardstock. Some paint splatters, some stamping with See The World  heart stamp, photo, and journaling later, my layout was finished. Here are a few closeup shots

 I have Alexandra Gadji with me today and here's her take on the challenge.

This is what Alexandra had to say: "Mou's color scheme and the Travel Girl are a perfect match. As soon as I saw her inspiring picture, I was good to go.

I created this layout to tell the story about how much my daughter loves visiting her grandparents. She loves to sleep over. Especially without us, her parents. Usually, we have to nag and nag and nag in the morning for her to get ready for preschool. But not when she is going to her grandparents. This morning she was all happy and bouncy. She put her clothes on in no time and she even packed her bag all by herself. She insisted to carry her bag even though it looked pretty heavy. It's not often you can see her standing outside the door waiting and nagging us to hurry.

I stamped a lot of "go" in different colors, punched them out and used them as embellishments. At first, I wanted to stamp directly on my layout, but this felt safer. It also adds a little bit of dimension to the page. I wanted my stamps to feel a little grungy and not so clear and crispy, so I used water based distress inks. 

I love all the bits and pieces that come with each October Afternoon collection. Here I have used cards from the miscellany pack, alphas, shape and word stickers, tidbits and a brad. All those fun embellishments make scrapping so easy. I had to add a little touch of blue to Mou's color scheme. I wanted to pick up and match the blue in my photos. I tried not to, but the layout didn't feel 100% complete that way... I hope that Mou will forgive me for "cheating" ;-)"

Alexandra you are excused :)

You could take the challenge too! When you do, please share your creations with us on the October Afternoon Flickr gallery.