Does anybody else create in their sleep? It happens to me all the time...This month things were really crazy around my house so I didn't get to start working with my Design Team Kit right away. I took everything out and drooled over the Scenic Route papers, and then put them away. I didn't forget about them, though, because I woke up one morning and knew exactly how I was going to start this layout!
I took out my Cutter Bee exacto knife and sliced most of the sun's rays along the bottom half of that paper. Then I trimmed out the wave paper and "married" the two of them, pulling forward a little ray of sunshine here and there. A couple of times I had to slice into the wave so that the "sunshine" would lay properly on the page.
I had noticed the Accu-cut swirl die back at Scrapbooks Plus, 
and it reminded me of the waves. After a trip to the store (where I also bought some terrific Luxe clear acrylic stamps that will undoubtedly show up on some of my future pages) I was back in business. I painted the chipboard green and then pulled out my Pearl Ex to try a slightly different technique using Future floor polish! I filled a Waterbrush with Future and used it to apply the Pearl Ex. I also painted in some shimmery details on the fishies I had cut out. Once it had dried, there was no need to seal these items with acrylic spray to keep the Pearl Ex from rubbing off. Love it! A couple of pop dots for dimension...Done!
and it reminded me of the waves. After a trip to the store (where I also bought some terrific Luxe clear acrylic stamps that will undoubtedly show up on some of my future pages) I was back in business. I painted the chipboard green and then pulled out my Pearl Ex to try a slightly different technique using Future floor polish! I filled a Waterbrush with Future and used it to apply the Pearl Ex. I also painted in some shimmery details on the fishies I had cut out. Once it had dried, there was no need to seal these items with acrylic spray to keep the Pearl Ex from rubbing off. Love it! A couple of pop dots for dimension...Done! 
Now the bottom of the page was finished and the top half needed some more "weight". I had a die cut of a sun, but it really didn't work, so I used my scissors and trimmed out the thin outline of the sun that was left on the diecut paper (I love to squeeze every little bit out of my kit!). I added a little Pearl Ex...and it looked good, but still not quite right. Soooo I dug into my stash and found some sunshine yellow mulberry paper with a gold paisley pattern. Perfect! I adhered the mulberry paper and the sun outline with Memory Mount. The final touch was the title which I ended up printing from my word processor. I tried to add a tag for journaling several times but I just couldn't find a spot that made me happy. In retrospect, I think I could have made the sun into a flap, and journaled behind it. There really wasn't much I wanted to add - this was one of those rare moments when they were all together and happy and not bickering - so "Sibling Revelry" really says it all for me!
4 comments:
What a beautiful page! I love how you cut out the sun's rays and overlapped them onto the water paper. Thanks for the polish tip. That's something I'm definitely going to try!
This is beautiful! I love how the sun's rays are penetarting the waves & that you have the fishies are swimming along. So perfect! Amazing job!
So pretty! Love how you cut the rays and incorporated them with the waves!
It's a dream page in more ways than one! Simply beautiful.
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