I want to share a layout I made for my friend Kelly's 500 subbie YouTube challenge. She is froggie251 on YouTube and here is the link to her channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/froggie251/videos . If you don't know Kelly, hop on over to her channel, sit back and enjoy. She does some great stuff. Kelly makes 12X12 layouts but also does Project Life. She is a joy to watch and to listen to. Lately, Kelly has participated in a couple of collaborations with a two other great YouTubers - one on project life (with Hannah Lemieux), where they challenged each other to use mixed media on some of their PL cards. The other collaboration, also a mixed media challenge, is with Mari Clarke. Mari makes an art journal page and Kelly integrates some great mixed media techniques on a 12 X 12 layout. Such fun!
You still have time to participate in Kelly's challenge as it closes tomorrow, on the 19th so as soon as you finish reading this ;), get cracking!!! LOL.
Here is the layout I made:
This turned out vastly different than the idea I had when I started to make the page. Firstly, I wanted to make a 12X12 and secondly I mentioned to Kelly that I was going to try and do a mixed media background, in her honour :). As you can clearly see, neither happened.
I did make a background on a 12X12 piece of black cardstock. To reduce the starkness (yup it's a word in my head) of the black, I gesso'd the page. I did add some water to make it more of a wash but obvously not enough - first booboo. Then I used a star stencil with some texture paste, which I coloured with Italian Sunset Glimmer Mist. I wanted to match the pale coral in my photo mat and on one of the layers. The colour matched perfectly - yay - but in the end it was way too pale on the background. So when I put my photo block on that background.... I hated it!!! OK, well, start over I thought - but hmmm, no more black 12X12 cardstock!! So 8.5X11 it became. I used my punches to cut some circles out of that MM piece which you can see in each of the three embellishment clusters. In the end, I do like the outcome.
The supplies: I used my Scraptastic April Darlene main kit and add-on to make this page with very few exceptions :
- The black cardstock and the pale coral carstock that I used to mat the photo, are both from Stampin' Up
- The stencil is from Simon Says Stamp
- The mint foam thickers are from my stash - they are Dear Lizzy. The black alpha thickers may be from a previous kit - gosh how I love that font :)
There is no story to tell about this photo - it is simply of my boy Chopin sleeping the afternoon away after quite the play session with Sophie !
Thanks so much for stopping by and sticking with me to end end of this post. Thanks so much Kelly for a fun challenge and congratulations on reaching 500 subbies. I love your channel and am sure that you will be at 1000 in no time at all.
Have a great weekend everyone. I will be back soon. Hugs xox
