Ella Spring Training #8

This is definitely a good exercise for me....I am always afraid to use too many patterned papers or different colors together.  So, I did as was instructed in the exercise and found a design site with some pretty colors.  I actually had a sticker in mind which was the basis of my color.  It's the April sticker from the Year-o-graphy calendar cardstock sheet which is two tones of orange.  Which...is also my favorite color and I have a hard time using it because I always want to use black with it and it ends up looking like a Halloween page :)  So, I loved this picture of a kitchen done in orange and blues.

Love it!  Love it! Love it!

I know the picture doesn't do the colors justice.  They are really beautiful together.  There are two tones of blue, one a sort of sky/grey blue and the other is a navy blue.  I think it sort of looks black on the page, but it's navy.  And then the oranges.  

The reason that I picked that sticker is because it's time for me to do my monthly page in my 8 x 8 album.  I started doing an 8 x 8 album each year in 2009.  It's basically a "story" type scrapbook where I scrap pictures or no pictures, but there is always a story and most of the time the story relates to my feelings behind it.  This year, with all the hype around project life, I decided to go ahead and start doing a monthly page.  Basically I just add whatever I can think of for the month on the page.  I happen to have this cardstock sticker sheet that just works perfectly to get me through the year so I make sure that I use the month sticker and anything else on the sheet that I can find.  I just love this exercise in combination with these stickers because it made it so easy for me to come up with what colors I wanted to use or find from my stash!  I really think that I will use this over and over again in my creating :)  

I won't have time to finish my page today because I have to head to work...but hopefully I will post it when it's done :)