OWH Design Bootcamp- Color Theory

Playing along with Operation Write Home & design bootcamp. This week, to start off bootcamp, is some basic color theory. I've picked up a lot of what was covered this week over the years of quilting and picking fabrics, and also applied that to picking papers that coordinate. A color wheel is always sitting out on the desk for reference...  Thomas will tell you, I don't do random or things that don't match as close as I can get them. ;)

The homework for the week was to pick one of the basic color harmonies & create a card. I chose monochromatic for my card. I started with the piece of striped patterned paper that was on the desk. I played with several different cards before this one.... The sketch is this weeks OWH sketch. Patterned paper is from My Mind's Eye. I pieced the windows and door. Sentiment & house is from an OWH Hero Arts set.  Background paper is stamped with sentiment and then heat embossed with clear embossing powder. Black brads are Making Memories.

These two cards were made with the same stripe paper and stamps. The other patterned papers are also by MME, in the same lime twist paper line. The idea was to make them for the homework, but the teal of the house doesn't fit in the same wedge on the color wheel as the darker blue, so they don't quite work for monochromatic. They are closer to analogous.... Ribbon is May Arts. Cloud die is from Memory Box. Sketches are OWH 152 for card with clouds & OWH 96 for house with ribbon.