Fresh Flowers

Hello friends! Sometimes it's nice to play around and just have some fun.  This is what this layout is about. Getting messy with some acrylic paints and gesso.  My husband gave me these gorgeous flowers and I knew I had to create a page of them.

I dipped a rubber stamp in pink acrylic paint (Spun Sugar Ranger Distress Paint) and stamped around the outside edge of the white cardstock background.  Then I added some clear gesso to the center of the white cardstock, let it dry and then added some pink acrylic paint (Spun Sugar Ranger Distress Paint) with an expired credit card.

Next I added some papers, die cuts and embellishments from the Here Comes The Sun Collection by Pretty Little Studio.  I love the colors and the cute cacti in this collection.

A few months ago I purchased the pink typewriter (Typecast) from We R Memory Keepers and it has helped me journal on my pages a lot more than I did in the past.  

This layout was created for the January Mix It Up Challenge at Paper Issues.  The challenge was to use acrylic paint and gesso on a project.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day!

Remember You Are My Sunshine

Hello friends! Today I am sharing another layout on the blog at A Flair For Buttons.

I used flair from the Relax Flair set and the Just Hearts 1 set.  Sometimes I like the flair buttons to color coordinate and these flair buttons do just that.  The papers and ephemera on this layout are from the Here Comes The Sun Collection by Pretty Little Studio.

Flair Used On Layout:

Just Hearts 1

Relax Flair

Just Nick/Pretty Little Studio Team Up

Hello friends! Today I'm sharing a layout on the Just Nick Digital Cut Files blog using two Just Nick cut files (Basketweave Background and Doodle Flowers 2) and some gorgeous papers and other products from the Here Comes The Sun Collection by Pretty Little Studio.  If you haven't checked out Pretty Little Studio's products, please do! I could buy every single line.  Of course I had to discipline myself to choose only one collection.

To create my layout, I cut out the Doodle Flowers 2 cut files in different sizes on some adhesive backed card stock with my Silhouette Cameo and with my water color paint set painted the flowers in blue, pink, green, black and yellow keeping it placed on the mat as it makes it easier .

After the flowers were painted, I let them dry completely then peeled them off of the sheet and backed them with patterned papers from the Here Comes The Sun Collection by Pretty Little Studio.

For the background, I cut out a 12 X 12 inch sheet of white card stock using the Basketweave Background and my Silhouette Cameo.  When it was cut out, I placed it over another sheet of 12 X12 inch white card stock and then stitched around the outside edge with my sewing machine.  

Next, I added the photo and then decided on the placement of the flowers,  I tried to alternate with large and small flowers in a diagonal design from the top left edge of the page to the bottom right edge of the page.

Once the flowers were all adhered to the background paper, I added flair buttons to the center of some of the flowers as well as some star embellishments around the page and also some ephemera.

I added some little black alpha stickers to complete the title of the page.

Cut files that I used on my layout:

Basketweave Background

Doodle Flowers 2

I hope you enjoyed your visit and my tutorial on how I created my layout.  Have a creative day!