Choosing colors for your scrapbook page: inspiration from a product

Title: it's falling gratitude

***I'm reposting this layout on March 22, 2011; It has been published in the November 2010 issue of Scrapbook Trends magazine.

Every page I begin starts with the same process: Pick photos, than a color combination. Usually I pull my colors from the photos, and this was the route I was going with this time. I found these Hambly stickers in my stash, with the little tree (bottom right) as my guiding color inspiration. I though it'll be the perfect complement for the yellows, oranges and browns in my photos. Except for the teal/aqua, huh?!.... Which I never would associate with the warm hues of fall. Lucky for me, this made me get out of my comfort zone and try to incorporate teal as a cooler tone among all the warm hues. 

Lucky coincidence perhaps, that I still had the perfect shade of teal home-made misting spray from this layout. I think I spent more time trying to prevent the Bazzill paper from warping after the spraying, than actually assembling this page ...for real ;) I tried ironing the page, putting it under a rug with a heavy object on top, heat gun, bending it in opposite directions and a few other attempts. I couldn't salvage that page, but lucky for me I tried the Arches cold pressed 140 lb. water color paper and it did not warp one bit.

Thanks for looking!
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Supplies:
Watercolor paper: Arches; Patterned paper: American Crafts (yellow), Basic Grey (orange); Stickers, rub-ons (wood grain): Hambly; Jewels, buttons (clear): Doodlebug Design Inc.; Buttons: Bazzill (green dot), Buttons Galore (yellow, orange); Brads: Target; Stamp (tree), screen: Tattered Angels; Stamp: Technique Tuesday ('gratitude'); Embossing powder: Sugar Loaf Products; Paint: Plaid; Markers: American Crafts; Embroidery thread: DMC; Yarn: Coats & Clark; Twine: Darice; Font: Cambria Body; Other: Burlap, staples.