Give a Cheer
Challenges: July Hoarders (patterned paper, title card)
The Layout:
This is the companion page to my Stand Tall layout. The background paper and top/bottom strips complement each other, and the patterned paper and sequins help pull the two pages together.
I chose this background paper for similar reasons to Stand Tall. 1) it matches the colors of the sunset in the top photo and 2) I’m trying to remove some solid cardstock paper from my stash (but I’m not counting it as hoarded).
I used the, “Fine Rubber Stamps,” stamp from Tim Holtz’s Purveyor set to create the top and bottom strips. After inking the stamp in Chipped Sapphire, I stamped twice before re-inking and repeating the process until I had enough to go all the way across.
In trying to find embellishments, I went through my stash of pink/salmon papers and ran across the title card that’s been waiting for this layout for a year. I trimmed it down, took a corner rounder to the edges, distressed the whole thing in Abandoned Coral, and added the butterfly stamp (from the Prima Royal Menagerie collection) in Chipped Sapphire. I also distressed the patterned paper in abandoned coral, as well as the circle-punched patterned paper.
The larger circle punch has been in my stash a while, but I can tell you that it was made using the packaging technique to create a resist from Ranger liquid pearls in gold. I just watered the liquid pearls down on some old packaging and blotted it onto some white cardstock. Then I added either watercolor inks or I scribbled some marker on the packaging and spritzed that with water – it’s been so long, I forget what I did, exactly. Either way, the liquid pearls created a resist for the watercolor.
The sequins and the Life is Beautiful stamp (in Dusty Concord) are Dollar Tree finds.
The story:
This is our second trip with our travel trailer. We managed to snag the last campsite on the lake at Huntsville State Park (Texas) over the July 4 weekend. It was hot, Hot, HOT that weekend (so glad we were glamping with an AC)! We ended up spending a lot of time sitting under the awning in our rocking camp chairs, just watching the water and wildlife. Speaking of wildlife, some of it is pretty wild! The park has a lot of alligators, and they become active at dawn and dusk. Every night around sunset, we’d see one or two float past our campsite.
Just having 4 days to not worry about anything, or think about anything, was awesome.
Thanks for spreading positivity!
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