Welcome to The Color Room Blog Hop

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Hi!!

Welcome to the Color Room’s First annual Blog HOP.

We are celebrating our 50^th Palette, and we have some amazing things to share with you this week.

You can see the palette HERE

You have just come from NAOMI’s blog, how talented is she

Here is what I created from the ‘whitewashed’ His Room Palette

ekkkk (this was a challenge for me, where's my bright colours, hehehe)I do have to admit though this has now turned into one of my favourites

Just for something fun here's a few things you may or may not already know about me ;)

UPCLOSE AND PERSONAL with

“Nicole Pomeroy”

1.      I am from Queensland Australia (not going to mention the town cause you'd find me EASILY) and I am currently Designing for The Color Room, Helmar, Annas Craft Cupoard, Scrap the Boys, Kraft it Up and Get Picky (yes I'm busy) 

2.      I Live with my husband and our four children, our dog and a million other creatures who have decided to make our place home too

3.      On my desk right now you will find: (how long do you have) scissors, messy paint and mist splatters, tape backs, scraps of paper, the odd flower, material, gesso, bling, my dymo, a ruler, pens, a box of dt projects, usually my phone and my camera too, ummm I think I will stop before I embarass myself. You can probably tell I need to clean up.

4.      My favourite colours to work with at the moment:  yellow, umm yellow and maybe aqua. But yep I'm loving yellow, oh and green

5.      What kind of themes do you often scrap? Not a huge theme scrapper. You will find pages on the kids birthdays but they aren't full blown birthday related layouts, and I don't think I've ever scrapped Christmas, I just do whatever, more of a moment person and just becuase I like scrapping.

6.      Where do you scrap?  I am VERY lucky to have my own scrap space. It's still a work in progress but I love having all my artwork around me :)

7.      What is your scrapping process?  Scrap Process.... is that a trick question?? I don't really have a process, sometimes I will start with a photo, other times I'll create a background and then you have those times where you just start throwing things a a piece of card and hope for the best.

8.      My favourite food: I'd like to say chocolate but right now I'm trying to loose the last few kg's of baby weight so it's just not doing it for me. Really though I say fruit. I love summer because of all the stone fruit and the melons. Fruit bat from way back.

9.      My top 3 favourite tools: scissors, HS distresser, sewing machine

10.  I get my inspiration from: many places, magazines, the internet, surfing blogs, nature, letting my kids design my backgrounds ;) my fellow DT members

11. This week I've decided to create my background from material, I hunted down an old pair of denim shorts and ended up cutting off the legs (I now have a pair of shorty shorts, win win really). Measured out the size I wanted, cut it out and then this is where it gets fun :)

- you need to find an object to use for distressing, something that is coarse, I used a pumice stone thingy to start with, you can use a very heavy sandpaper too.

-I've also dropped bleech in places

- Once this had been washed, I realised it wasn't distressed enough so I used a serrated edge knife (trust me should have used this first place much easier and really tears into the fabric) 

- Last step I used my Heidi Swapp mask and some gesso to add dots randomly.

(Don't mind everything scattered around my project ;) )

Please feel free to try this technique on your challenge this week join the Color room and participate HERE

Remember to leave a comment answering the question below to be in the running for this weeks special prize

What is ONE of the items on my desk right now?

Thanks so much for stopping by

Next you are heading to PHILLIPA’s Blog HERE cant wait to see what she has done with the palette

Thanks so Much for joining in, I hope I've inspired you in some way

and remember to leave your comment

and you can check out my previous blog post for something extra you can win

Nicole
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