Brightly Bewildered

The Rainbow Scrap Challenge color palette for April is that of a monarch butterfly: orange with touches of dark brown or black. I was very excited when I learned this. I started off by making a few blocks out of scraps at the rusty/coral end of the orange spectrum that were right at hand.

As you can see, I'm still making the occasional Ohio Star. These are nine inch stars, not the 12" blocks I made most of last year. My focus now is 8" postage stamp stars. I'm discovering that I don't have much in the way of actual scraps this year however. I did a pretty thorough job of using them up apparently! I also find I'm reluctant to cut up my more precious prints without a plan for the resultant blocks. And the orange prints are some of my favorites. ;- )

Nevertheless, I cut tiny strips off some of my orange prints this week to make a couple more blocks. I also decided to try them with black backgrounds instead of white.

Now I'm not sure I want to continue with the 9" orange and white Ohio stars I started making last year!

There's a link party over at SoScrappy where you can see what everyone else is making. But be careful, there are a lot of enticing ideas out there!