BLACK AND WHITE

Somewhere Over The Rainbow, Brown-eyed Girl, Yellow Submarine, Blue Suede Shoes, Lady In Red .... these are just a few song titles containing colors. Everywhere we go, whether it’s on a busy crowded street or in our backyard watching flowers blossom, or listening to music, we have a rich palette of color all around us. Think of the word mint. It’s a color and a flavor. I think of ice cream when I hear the word. We see, hear and taste color everyday. Imagine your world without it. When I’m given a blank sheet of white paper, I begin thinking about what color I should add to it. What good is a coloring book without crayons? What good are the Creatables in Black and White format? Well, let me tell you. Using graphics in Black and White format allows you to make the graphic whatever color you want or leave them Black and White and print them onto colored paper. Use them as a coloring book page, or use them as a pattern for a paper piecing.

Open up your Hugbug Browser in Black and White format and begin Coloring Your World.

Layout 1: DEVILS TOWER

Supplies:

• Bits n’ Pieces Creatable by Shan’l Parish
• Cardstock, sky blue (background), navy, yellow, green, red, white
• Vellum
• White Magic Mesh from Stampin’ Up
• Alphabet Beads (source unknown)
• White wire by Wild Wire

Instructions:

1. Copy and paste the square graphics of the sun, dragonfly, and ladybug to a workspace. (I use Microsoft Works.) Set your page to landscape, and size the graphics to approximately 2.5”x3” and arrange them across the page. Print onto vellum and trim to create a border.
2. Cut yellow, green and red paper with random angles to fit behind the graphics. Mat the colored squares onto a navy background border approximately 1/2” larger than the vellum border. Place the vellum border over the colored squares and adhere using a 12” wide piece of Magic Mesh. Adhere the completed border onto the bottom of 12”x12” sky blue cardstock.
3. Double mat photo using white and navy cardstock. Adhere to the top left of the layout.
4. Thread a title onto wire and attach to the layout. (I poke a hole using a needle to thread the wire through and adhere the wire to the back of the layout.)

Layout 2: ROCK CLIMBING

Supplies:

• Roughing It Creatable by Kate Merkley
• Cardstock, teal, grey, black, white
• Making Memories Funky Fibers
• Watercolored Muted Magic Scraps
• Sea Glass Teal wire by Wild Wire

Instructions:

1. Tear a 5" strip of grey cardstock and adhere to the teal cardstock approximately 2.5" from the top to create a background.
2. Mat photos using grey and black cardstock. Arrange onto layout.
3. Copy and paste the Hiking Boy graphic to a work space. (I use Microsoft Works.) Size the graphic to fit on the layout. Create any title or journaling you wish to have on the layout. Print onto one sheet of grey and one sheet of white.
4. Trim the graphic and title, or journaling to the exact sizes in both the grey and white. Cut them in half on an angle from corner to corner. Put back together using one grey and one white piece to create a whole again.
5. Mat onto black cardstock. Leave a larger border on one end of to the mat to embellish with fiber and sea glass.
6. To embellish, place a length of fibers under the sea glass and attach the sea glass using wire.

Layout 3: SPRING

Supplies:

• Welcome Spring Creatable by Debbie Crabtree
• Coordinating Pink and White windowpane print paper by Provo Craft
• 8.5"x11" vellum
• Black cardstock
• Green snap eyelets by Making Memories
• Color pencils

Instructions:

1. Copy and paste the Spring title and spray of three flower onto a workspace. (I use Microsoft Works.) Arrange to have the title across the top and the flowers along the left side. Overlap the title on top of the flowers by going to Format, Order and Bring To Front. Add text boxes and arrange within the title if you wish to add more to the title. Print onto the vellum.
2. Using the color pencils, color on the back side of the vellum to coordinate with the colors in the pictures. Coloring on the back of the vellum gives your graphic a softer look.
3. Place a 3" border across the top of the layout using the coordinating paper matted onto black. Attach the vellum to the border using the snap eyelets. (See photo.)
4. Mat photos using coordinating paper and black cardstock and adhere to layout.
   

Layout 4: A CAROUSEL FOR MISSOULA

Supplies:

• Old West Creatable by Laurie Furnell
• Cardstock, dark green, gold, red
• Iron-On Thread by Kreinek, red and gold
• Small star punch (source unknown)
• Large Zig-Zag scissors by All Night Media
• X-acto knife
• Red faceted jewels (source unknown)

Instructions:

1. Cut a 2" border from gold cardstock using the zig-zag scissors and attach at the top of the dark green cardstock. Trim a 1" red strip and attach at the bottom.
2. Iron on 2 stripes of red thread across the top and 1 stripe of gold across the bottom. Follow package directions for ironing on thread.
3. Punch out 7 small red stars and adhere to the zig-zag border. Place a gold faceted jewel on each star.
4. Braid 3 stands of the gold iron-on thread and iron onto layout 3" from the left side.
5. Copy and paste the horse from the Old West Creatable to a workspace and size to approximately 5"x7". (I use Microsoft Works.) Print onto white paper. Using a lightbox or some sort of light source, (example: window) place another piece of white paper over the print out and trace each element separately. I traced each of these sections to create the paper piecing; body, neck, head, front legs, back legs, tail, mane, forelock.
6. Cut out each pattern piece and trace onto the gold and red cardstock. Cut out the pieces and adhere together and embellish using the star punch, iron-on thread, and faceted jewels. Add black to create the hoofs on the horse. (See layout.) Adhere to layout on top of the gold braid so the hoofs are on the top of the red border at the bottom of the layout.
7. Create a title using a computer font and printing it in mirror image onto red cardstock. Cut out using an x-acto knife and adhere to the layout.
8. Mat photos using gold and red cardstock and arrange onto layout.