Colorwheel layout by Leah

Here's Leah -

I've been working lately to surround myself with things that inspire me - and to act on the inspiration! I recently did a layout featuring the work of Gandhi, and how he's inspiring me to constantly work to become a better person. Today I thought I'd share what's been inspiring some of my art/craft work. Colorful fabric waiting to be stitched together, watercolors from my work table and a colorfilled chevron scarf I crocheted through the winter... As I looked through all of it, i struck me that it would be SO fun to create a colorwheel with all of the fabulously colored transparencies!

Here's what I did to create the colorwheel:
I first started by choosing nine overlays in rainbow colors. I ended up needing ten, but you'll see the nine I originally chose here!

After laying them out together, created a circle template using my super high-tech... IKEA plate. I traced and cut my circle.

Then started cutting the overlays. I eyeballed the size, and then used a ruler to make a straight edge. AFter cutting this one, I just laid it over the rest of the pieces to get the identical size.



I knew I was going to be covering the center of my color wheel with my photo mat, so I applied my favorite dry adhesive to the center of the pieces to attach them to the cardstock circle enough to keep them from slipped while I stitched with my sewing machine.



After stitching in a spiral around the circle, starting in the middle, I just attached my circle to a black cardstock background. Using my favorite redline tape {I get mine from American Crafts} I l pressed a line around the circle to attach the buttons I had lined up from my stash! Now you're all ready to create the layout as you'd like!


Supplies:
Overlays:
Antique Teal Blue Herringbone
Antique Lime Streets of Paris Overlay
Golden Yellow Diagonal Ally Overlay
White Honeycomb Overlay
Red Mini Brocade Overlay
Yellow Lattice Overlay
Pink Woodgrain Remix Overlay
Black Garden Party Overlay
Metallic Silver Chicken Coop Overlay
Magenta Little Circles Overlay
Butterflies and Florals Sticker Set
Journal Tags Mini Overlays
12x12 white cardstock
12x12 black cardstock
buttons

Comments

[MichelleGB]

Gorgeous page! Loved the buttons.

[leeann Pearce]

Oh Leah great creative minds think alike! love your page...totally gorgeous!!!

[asun]

Waouhhhhh!!!I love it!!!

[Holly]

WOW!

[Kirsty]

Clever, and so, so pretty (you're really making me wish I scrapbooked)!

[pocieszna]

wow it's so colorful

[Evelisa]

I love colorwheels. This is very creative :)