Using an April Mood Board to Spark Watercolor Experiments
Mood boards work best when they push you somewhere unexpected. Felicity used the April mood board as permission to pick up watercolors and paint freely, without a plan. The bright, playful palette in the moodboard gave her a direction, and she ran with it.
Hello there friends, Felicity with you here today. I’m sharing today a fun bright colourful page using the moodboard designed by sweet Jill using the March kit.
Isn’t that moodboard so playful? When I first looked at this, I saw just bright fun colours, which meant I had to play with the water colours in the March kit. I had no direction, other than to scrap paint and spread it about. It was super super fun.
I love mood boards, because when we feel like we doing the same thing over and over again, we can take a look at a bunch of pictures together and all of sudden, your wanting to paint colours, your wanting to put a title ” Hey its ok” or maybe its taken new photos of fruit. Its matter of allowing your imagination to go without limitations.
Want to create layouts like this? Our monthly kits include coordinated papers, embellishments, and supplies to bring your scrapbook pages to life.
There is so much goodness in the March kits, that I decide to pull out all the circular embellishments from the kit and layer them into my page. I love how the wood grain chipboard title “smile” and the gold hearts, just soften all the brighteness.
I really want to encourage you to take inspiration from the mood board and find something either old to try again or something you’ve been wanting to try.
Here is the process video for you watch.
Happy creating!
What to Borrow from This Mood Board Layout
- Felicity painted her watercolor washes without mapping them out first. Starting loose can lead to more expressive backgrounds than careful, controlled strokes.
- She pulled every circular embellishment from the kit and clustered them together – grouping by shape is a fast way to build a cohesive arrangement.
- Gold heart accents soften the bright watercolor underneath. Metallics work as a counterbalance when your colors run hot.
- The wood grain chipboard title reading "smile" grounds the page with a natural texture against all the painted color.
- If a mood board sparks a technique you have not tried before, that is the whole point. This layout only exists because the moodboard pushed Felicity past her usual approach.
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