I had a lot of fun with the sketch for September at Stick It Down. I decided to squish it a little to fit on 8.5×11, but other than that, I stuck pretty true to the design.
The one thing that I definitely knew I wanted to do with this layout was the fold-over to reveal pattern paper bit. I’ve been wanting to try that for quite a while and this was the perfect sketch for it. I was so eager in fact that folding over and stapling the paper was the first thing I did! Which made things a little harder for the rest of the layout, but I worked around it.
For the pattern paper peaking out behind the fold, I used Crate Paper’s Maggie Holmes Sweet Story Paper. I used some clear and gold swirl cellophane wrap as a overlay. I think it adds a lot of interest to the paper! I used the other side of the paper as a layer behind the photos.
I even used the branding strip for layering! I also have white cardstock matting and white tissue paper under there. I love how the tissue paper gives the photos an airy lift.
For the background, I covered the areas I was going to do mixed media on with gesso, then applied grapefruit pink shimmer spray with the packaging technique. I also splattered several shades of pink, red, orange and gold watercolour around the page. Once dried, I placed several clear gold frame stickers from the dollar store, then layered a flower cut out that I had designed and cut with my Silhouette. Lastly I used gold paint to stamp butterflies around the page.
I used a lot of my Scraptastic club kit on this layout! It has certainly got a lot of mileage! It came with these gorgeous exclusive wood veneers that I have been hoarding. I used the grapefruit shimmer spray and gold paint to colour them.
I layered some pink thread underneath them. I embellished with these gorgeous pink pearl dots that were a gift from my aunt, as well as some puffy heart stickers.
For the corner cluster, I layered some washi tape and a pink ticket under the third flower wood veneer.
I used Dear Lizzy Treasure thickers for part of the title. The other part, I used American Crafts Peach cardstock and some gold embossing powder to make these DIY mini alphas. I absolutely adore how they turned out and will definitely be using this technique again! I stamped the letters quite far apart, embossed, and then cut them out. It was super easy.
I’d love to see what you come up with for this sketch! Remember to link up on the Stick It Down blog!
xoxo
A
