Technique Spotlight with Paige Evans: Monochromatic

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Up for a fun challenge? Try scrapping with just one color! Don’t worry, it’s actually not as hard as it may sound once you bring in all the embellishments and different tints, tones, and shades of a single color – they all work together to create a stunning monochromatic layout!

Adorable by Paige Evans copy 2

ADORABLE by Paige Evans

Yellow, yellow, and more yellow! I started with a sun-rays background and then filled in every other ray with a bunch of yellow embellishments!

Hello Jane

HELLO JANE by Paige Evans

Here I punched a bunch of squares from all kinds of pink patterned papers, cut them in half, and pieced them together to make a quilt-like background. Then I had fun filling in-between and embellishing with lots of pink things!

Me & My Girl by Paige Evans

MY GIRL by Paige Evans

I was surprised by how many mint green things I had in my stash collected over the years so once I pulled all of those bits and pieces out this layout came together in a snap!

Princess Paige

PRINCESS PAIGE by Paige Evans

Another pink layout, because pink is my absolute favorite color! Gather everything on the bottom section of your layout and leave the top half mostly empty to create balance.

What do you think? Do you want to give this technique a try?! It’s fun!