August Papermaze Kit - Part 1

Lynn here today with the first of my layouts made using the August Papermaze Kit. This kit is full of bright and colourful scrapbook papers, embellishments and cardstock. Ideal for summer and seaside layouts. The first two layouts feature lots of doodling.

Here are the details of what you will find in the kit:

Patterned Papers:
Vicki Boutin - Bold + Bright collection - Light of Day & Spinning Wheels
Paige Evans - Adventurous collection - #21
Echo Park - Sunny Days Ahead collection - Shine on Sunshine
Pebbles - Fun in the Sun collection - Picnic Plaid & Get Away

This photo shows both sides of the papers:

Embellishments:  Sheet of P13 alphas, selection of Pebbles puffy thickers, 5 Rosie's Studio puffy stickers, 6 Simple Stories ephemera, 5 AALL & Create labels, 6 water droplets and a strip of enamel hearts.

Bazzill Basics Cardstock: Avalanche and Granny Smith (included in main kit).
Evening Light, Princess Pink, Mexican Poppy and Sea Water (in extra Bazzill pack).

Sandy Toes + Salty Kisses - My girls on the beach at Joss Bay, a hot August day way back when they were just 3 years old.

For this layout I used both sheets of Vicki Boutin - Bold + Bright paper. I used Light of Day for the base, and with a fine black marker pen I highlighted and doodled around the colourful circular design on the paper. I cut a photo into a circle (about the same size as the orange printed circle), and stuck this within and overlapping the circles.

With Spinning Wheels paper I cut a selection of wheels in different colours and sizes from about half the sheet of paper (keeping the rest for another layout - shown below). I cut some circles in half and placed them around the edges of the page. Then with four large wheels I created flowers along the bottom of the layout. Back in with the pen, more doodling and highlighting!
I placed some large enamel dots (from my stash) into the flower centres.

I made my title with the puffy thickers from the kit, and a little journalling.

Vacay Vibes - Another photo from the early summer days with the children, Aboard Glisser in Woolverstone Marina. This is inspired by a layout from Paige Evans.

For this layout I used the sheet of Avalanche Bazzill as the foundation. Then I cut 5.5cm Hexagons from a selection of papers from this kit and a few from previous kits so that all the hexagons were different. I used both sides of Picnic Plaid, one side of  Spinning Wheels, Adventurous #21, Get Away. I used a die from a Memory Box set. the edges of each paper shape was distressed before adding it to the page.  I also cut a photo using the die for the centre of the arrangement.

I embellished the hexagons with a variety of words and phrases cut from the papers, and embellishments from the kit. I started with a puffy thickers phrase for the title. Then one another hexagon I added three of the AALL & Create labels from the kit, added my own journalling to these.

I cut phrases from the Get Away paper, and some labels from Adventurous #21 paper adding these to the hexagons.

I bunched some labels together, and stuck them to one of the hexagons with some twine through the holes. I added more journalling to these labels.

With a black pen I added doodling to the edges of the hexagons. Then I drew lines around each of the phrases to reflect the doodling on the AALL & Create labels.

Finally, I scattered the water droplets from the kit, over the page.

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