Black & White scrapbook layouts

Black is the new Black

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Well it appears that Black and White is back at the top of the list in the fashion stakes. So it’s no surprise that Scrapbooking fashions have mirrored this and Black and White colour schemes are the current scrapbook fashion trend too.

Now I’m not a trendy person. I find keeping up with trends to be exhausting and expensive, so I don’t usually bother. But one of the many charms of scrapbooking is that I can dabble in whatever is the current trend to try it out without making a significant wardrobe commitment and without any peer pressure on me to keep up. So it makes it kind of fun to experiment with a few of the trends as they appear.

So how do you feel about black and white layouts? I don’t mean B&W photos, but the whole colour scheme revolving around black and white.

I thought it might be fun to set up a Gallery of Black and White. And this can include scrapbook layouts, ATCs, cards, altered objects. The full spectrum of scrapbooking artistry.

So do something in black and white and post it on your blog. Link it to this post (if you click on the post title you’ll find the trackback link at the bottom of the post). I’ll post your layout (or whatever) on this page with a link back to your blog. I’ll keep updating this post with the gallery additions as they come in so keep popping back to check out the new contributors. Or get Scraps of Mind updates delivered to your Bloglines or Google Reader to make sure you’re notified of updates.

And if you already have a black and white layout or card posted on your blog, by all means contribute that link to the gallery.

Here are my contributions to kick start the gallery.

Credits: Hot off the Press

The first is a card I made at a Hot off the Press workshop for my nephew’s 19th birthday. And the two below are a pair of ATCs called Old Mother Hubbard (on the left) and Nursery Tales (on the right).

Old Mother Hubbard Nursery Tales

And these two Black & White layouts are from Michelle of Scrappy Hours and her friend

Black & White scrapbook layouts

And here’s one from Trish from ArtcTrish

And this great layout and ATCs have been submitted by Brigitte from Scrap Passie

Black & White scrapbook layouts

And this lovely number is from Tink of Tink’s Tribulations

Black & White scrapbook layouts

Janine from Angelic Ramblings has contributed this lovely number

I’m looking forward to seeing yours.

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12 Responses to “Black is the new Black”

Hannah on 24 Jul 2007 at 4:02 pm #

Great examples, Karen!! I love those ATC - they’re stunning!
I’ve only done a couple of B&W layouts in my time (and they are old = not very good) so there’s no way I’m posting them on my blog!! BUT … I do have some new B&W papers and embellies that I have been meaning to use, so I’ll try and do a new page. How long does this “challenge” go for? I won’t have time to do it until later in the week (or over the weekend).

karooch on 24 Jul 2007 at 5:01 pm #

Thanks Hannah.
I’m thinking of making it an ongoing thing. As people link to this post I’ll add them to the Gallery. If it gets to be too big I might make a separate page and it can be accessed from the top navigation bar. We’ll see how it goes. Look forward to seeing yours.

Michelle on 25 Jul 2007 at 12:27 am #

Karen,

As you know, my friend and I did this as a challenge a while back. Here is a link to my page - http://scrappyhour.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/bw-challenge.jpg - and here is a link to hers - http://scrappyhour.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/lc_black_and_white.jpg.

Feel free to post them to the gallery if you choose.

Michhelle

Trish on 27 Jul 2007 at 4:36 am #

Here’s mine. Its for the ADSR but it works for here too!
http://www.digishoptalk.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=153282&nocache=1

karooch on 27 Jul 2007 at 7:05 pm #

Jan when I click on your link I get a 404 error. And I can’t see your layout. Have you removed it from your blog?
Please note everyone. I’ve deleted Jan’s comment with the link to her site at her request as she’s taken the layout off her blog.

Thanks Trish. Great layout.

BrigittevT on 29 Jul 2007 at 7:54 pm #

Just wanted to say your black and white ATC’s are gorgeous !! I once made a great B&W LO of my grandpa fishing by the sea, I can see it from my desk because I had it framed Shall upload it to my blog, so you can see it too !

BrigittevT on 29 Jul 2007 at 8:07 pm #

Just updated my blog with a B&W LO and 2 sets of Artist Trading Cards Thanks for looking !

Tink on 30 Jul 2007 at 4:03 am #

LOL, guess I need to get busy.

karooch on 30 Jul 2007 at 9:00 pm #

Thanks Brigitte and I’ve picked up your black and white contributions to the gallery.
Look forward to adding yours too Tink.

Tink on 31 Jul 2007 at 6:12 am #

And it is there…. Just got it up.

Larry W. Turman on 03 Aug 2007 at 3:35 am #

Hi,
I am going to get started right away.
I can’t wait to show you mine.
I have some great things I would like to try.
Hope you don’t mind if I link to you from my
web site.
Thanks,
Larry W. Turman

Behind « Angelic Ramblings on 15 Aug 2007 at 8:32 am #

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