August Papermaze Kit

The bright and colourful kit for the month of August, is now available from Papermaze and I'm sharing my first two layouts with you today.

Before looking at how they were made, here are the details of what you will find in the August kit:

 

Patterned Papers:
American Crafts - Vicki Boutin's Color Study collection - Palette & Color Wheel
American Crafts - Paige Evans' Wonders collection - #8
Cocoa Vanilla - Sunkissed collection - Good Vibrations
Pinkfresh Studio - Happy Blooms collection - Embroidered
Simple Stories - Sunkissed collection - Sunny Days
Bazzill Basics cardstock - White & Kachina

Reverse side of papers:

Embellishments: 

12" washi tape, 2 foam glitter words, 2 CVS wood buttons, strip of puffy star stickers, 6 CVS Sunkissed floral ephemera pieces, strip multi-coloured jewels, shaped clip & Bella Blvd acrylic heart & 5 puffy star stickers

Bazzill Basics Cardstock Pack 

Grenadine, Wild Pansy, Classic Yellow & Admiral

My Commute - This layout shows my daughter walking from Royal Crescent to the Theatre in Bath - in the rain!

I started with the white Bazzill from the kit and with some inks, I dripped some of each colour from about 1/3 of the way up the page, allowing it to run down the the bottom of the page.  I also flicked some ink of each colour over the rest of the Bazzill.

While this was drying, I set about cutting out and dividing up the colour wheel on the Color Study paper. I inked the edges of these wedges, with a corresponding Distress Ink colour. Then I arranged them on the page.

A placed my photo in the centre of the layout, and then set about embellishing the page, matching my embellishments to each wedge of coloured paper. From the kit I used the coloured jewels and some of the glitter foam stars. From my own stash I found sequins, gems and pearls.

For the main title I used a Sizzix - Tim Holtz BIGZ XL Die - Society. I cut the letters twice, once from some scrap black Bazzill and a second time, from scraps of the patterned paper (the pink side). I placed the letters offsetting them to create a shadow.

With the Sizzix - Tim Holtz Thinlits die set - Alphanumeric Tiny Type Upper and more black Bazzill, I cut out the lettering for the date and place name. 

I finished off with dots of Nuvo Crystal and Glitter Drops around the page.

Awesome - This photo was taken of my daughter and her husband on their honeymoon in Bali, The beautiful scenery was ideal for this Vicki Boutin Color Study collection.

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The 'Palette' paper was ideal and needed very little work to make a background for the layout. I flicked a little colour over the page. I used Distress Stain (Brushed Pewter and Peacock Feathers), and Distress Paint (Black Soot and Picket Fence).

I offset my photo onto a piece of the Kachina Bazzill and placed the photo and cardstock to the bottom right of the page. Before sticking these in place, I tucked a little cheesecloth underneath, so a little shows all the way around the arrangement.

With three short lengths of jute twine, I tied reef knots to rejoin them together and created a rough circle to place around the picture.

Then with a cake decorating mould and some Lite Fimo clay, I made a selection of shells and starfish. Once these were dry I painted them with Distress Inks. To highlight the detail I rubbed in metallic gilding wax. 

 I placed the shells around the base of the photo, and added some prills into the crevices. 

My title is a glitter foam word from the kit, I added more detail using Doodlebug Designs - All Mixed Up - Beetle Black - Tiny Alpha Rubons. 

That's all for today, I will be back with more from this kit soon
Thanks for looking
Lynn x