Color choice (scrapping) help needed

[pjlla]

I'm scrapping the day my kids made cookies at Epcot. I bought some "chocolate chip" paper to use as the background. The pictures are pretty colorful. The background is the yellow/red Nestle building (mostly yellow). The DD is wearing a deep purple princess sweatshirt and DS is wearing a dark green Buzz sweatshirt. They each have on the white chef's hat they received.

What accent color should I use to mat the photos against the dark chocolate chip paper? Yellow to go with the Nestle building? Cream or white to make the photos stand out from the background? I'm TERRIBLE with colors and I am drawing a blank. Maybe even black to mat the photos??

HELP!!!......................P

 

[bubbasmom99]

Are your photos digital? If so, have you tried to remove the color and go black and white, or maybe sepia in your case? Or spot color just your kids or maybe just a certain part of the picture... With so many colors going on in a pic, I like to go single tone sometimes... As far as the matting, I'd think that cream colored matting would set off from the paper.

 

[Stephres]

I would do white to be on the safe side. I would want them to stand out from the background, but not to compete with the background or the pictures.

 

[pjlla]

Thanks for the help. I can't really reprint (hate my home printing and already paid for the full color prints), but I'm going to keep the idea in mind for future "colorful" pictures.

Thanks again!.............P

 

[scrapperjill]

That's one of the things that's so great about going digital.

But without changing the photos at all..IMO...I'd go with a mat white then double matt with another color that will bring out the photos...maybe a tone close to the cookie color. I'd also use something else for the background....and use the dark chocolate chip paper as an accent...and not the whole background...maybe a torn strip along the edge....and maybe some for a journaling box..with a vellum overlay.

You have to keep in mind the reason your scrappbooking these photos...It's to remember to day/event...and to do it you do it through the photos..and not the paper...anyways...My whole point is to keep your focus on the photos...and not the background.