The Monochromatic Colour Challenge

February 27, 2009 | Filed Under Challenges, Layouts

Hi everyone! Amy (amymom24) here bringing you this week’s challenge: a Monochromatic Colour Challenge! No that is not a typo, this is really how we spell “colour” up here in Canada

The rules are simple: pick a colour and try to use only that colour on your layout. If necessary, you can use a related colour (in the same colour family), and/or neutral colours like black, white or brown. Easy peasy!

If you have an element you’d like to use, but it isn’t the colour that you picked for this layout, you can easily recolour it. There are lots of great tutorials for recolouring in your specific program, just google for them! Here are a couple links for Photoshop/Photoshop Elements to help you get started:

By Emily Giovanni for her personal blog
By Alice for the Weeds & Wildflowers blog – this is for Photoshop, but also works in Photoshop Elements, and she has a PSP tip in the comments section as well.
By Tee for the Weeds & Wildflowers forum

Here is an example to get your creative juices flowing. I used a good mix of Nicole’s stuff, most of it recoloured to fit my green theme. You can view the credits here.

Monochromatic Colour Challenge

Please use mostly Sugarplum goodies. You can find Nicole’s stuff at the Sugarplum Paperie shop and at The DigiChick. Nicole has had TONS of freebies, so don’t feel like you can’t play because you haven’t been able to shop.

Upload your layout to any gallery you want, and leave a link to your layout in the comments section of this post. You have until Thursday, March 5th to complete the challenge and you could win a $5.00 gift certificate to the Sugarplum Paperie shop!

I can’t wait to see your take on this challenge! Now go have fun!