Jacobi Creations

If you asked me to pick my top 10 favourite colours, pink would not be one of them!  However, it constantly manages to creep into my artwork.  Weird.  This layout was done for the More than Words challenge for the month of April, which is black and white, plus one and using the word "Dream".  I forgot about the Dream part as you will see, so perhaps it won't get entered after all. This candy floss pink is such a pretty colour and coupled with black and white, it is just so elegant and classy.  I had alot of fun with this design, playing with the ribbon initially to see if I liked it curving along, but it worked brilliantly and the left over ribbon then got threaded through the cut panel that sits behind the image panel.  I had a little play with Lindy's Magical Shakers using it in my modelling paste to create pink.  The variance of colour in these shaker colours is truly extraordinary, yesterday, I used it to make red modelling paste and it...

Okay, so I am really getting into the April More than Words Challenge of black and white, plus one, utilising the word "Dream" ... and yes, forgot about the word here too!!  It was after I had done two that someone awesome mentioned on facebook about the word and I honestly felt like they were saying it just for me.  I was like, ohhhhh.  Never mind.  Anyway, back to red and the reality is that for a bold statement, black, white and red is surely a definite way to go! I really wanted to start with a black base and then found out that is my last black piece until I go buy more ... sad.  Onwards and upwards and after quite a few hours, out popped this little number.  I really like so many little things on this page, firstly, there are the red dot like stencil patterns, then the doilies made this magic.  The little black and red heart layered is also just a lovely touch, followed by the cascading butterflies and last, but not least, using Glossy Accen...