If you love creative scrapbooking, you might sometimes find yourself stuck when trying to choose the right color for your scrapbooking theme.
Here are two simple tips that you can try to get started with your theme color.
1. Picking the most dominant color
Look at your photographs and try to pick up the most dominant color. For example, in my photo below, green covers most of the photo. So I might use green as my theme color.
Green is the dominant color in this photo
Having said that, you might want to see if the rest of the photos that you want to use have lots of this dominant color also. Ask yourself what is the overall result that you want, do you want softer or darker shade? What color can you combine together?
2. Using color wheel
Color wheel is a good tool to help you see the relationship between one color to the other. From there you can see the primary, secondary and the tertiary hues which I beleive are very useful in helping a scrapbooker with the theme color.
Color Wheel Is Very Useful to a Scrapbooker
Hardware shops that sell paints sometimes give free paint guide/wheel if you buy paints from them. Though you’ll not find all of these colors available for the scrapbooking paper, it will give you some ideas on the color clusters. It can also give you some feels for the color combinations so that you are not totally at lost when shopping for scrapbooking papers.
Before you go shopping for your scrapbooking supplies, try putting the sample color next to your photos. Seeing it on the table is different than imagining it in your head, so you might want to do this to get clearer ideas of how it will look like. Do you like the colors? How do they make you feel?
If you are happy with you choice, then jot it down in your notebook so that you don’t forget it. This information will be useful for your when you go shopping for your scrapbooking materials.
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