Primary Colors

 Hi everyone.

Today I am posting a page for Valerie's Anything Goes challenge at  Art Journal Journey. This challenge ends tomorrow, because it will already be the last day of March. Wow. This month has flown by, although  the beginning of March seems like a long time ago.

This is also my page for Rain's Art and Dinner Date. Rain's theme this week is primary colors. I'm really not fond of these colors when they are all together  without any other color (or black or white) to break them up, although each individually and when used in various tones and shades are great. You can see various shades of the 3 primary colors on today's page. Scattered around  are some reds, some blues and some yellows. 

I bought a roll of the new color chart tissue paper by Tim Holtz, and I was giving it a try on this page. I added an old photo (also another TH item), a piece of acetate, some art bits cut out of an old magazine page as well as a few stickers to title my page. I used a blue gelato watercolor crayon around the edge to finish off the page also.

I love the idea of art camp, and I must say I wish I was going to one this summer. I bet these ladies had lots of fun creating and sharing ideas.

For food this week, let me share the Victoria sponge cake I made last  weekend.

I actually wanted to try out this King Arthur Flour yellow cake mix. I was wondering how much easier it would be than making a cake from scratch. I knew it was a good tasting mix because  once I was at an event where someone had made cupcakes from it, but sometimes I wonder if mixes are really all that much easier than making from scratch.

 (Sorry for the shadow lines in the photos but it was raining, and I had all the kitchen lights on.)

I still needed to add butter, oil, milk and eggs, but I decided using the mix was a bit quicker and made fewer dirty utensils than making a cake from scratch. 

Since I didn't have room to store the cake in the refrigerator, I modified the Victoria sponge and  filled the center  with only jelly. Then I sprinkled powdered sugar on the top. I had a squirt can of  whipped cream that I used for the whipped cream when I served the cake.

Not fancy but still very yummy.  Maybe not quite so good as having some cream in the middle between the layers. And I liked how the mix tasted too. More like a homemade cake than some of the big name mixes.

That's all for me today. Have a great rest of your week.