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Lake Life

Bright colors make me happy so this was such a fun layout to put together.  It features papers from Vicki Boutin's Kaleidoscope collection.  
To create the layout, the 5x7 photo was printed with a white frame and matted on black cardstock.  The photo was placed off-center so that the rays of the background paper would appear to radiate out from the center of the photo.  The hearts and butterflies were fussy cut from some of the other papers in the collection. I cut out hearts from black cardstock and placed them behind the colored hearts to make it appear as though there is a shadow behind the hearts.  
I fussy cut the green ticket and brown tag from one of the papers and placed them to the right of the photo.  The title was cut from my Cricut using the Retro Mentho font that was downloaded from dafont.com and then outlined with a white gel pen.  Using Tim Holtz's Thinlits Alphanumeric Tiny Type Upper dies, I cut the location out of black cardstock and adhered it to the brown tag.  
The page's final embellishments came from Vicki Boutin's Wildflower & Honey Cardboard Thickers.
I also did a Project Life page to go alongside this layout.  Here is one of the cards I made using some of the same embellishments.

The bright colors of the layout really showcase the beautiful day on the lake and the wonderful time we spent with family.

Lake Life
Supplies:
  • Vicki Boutin Kaleidoscope Paper Pad
  • Cricut
  • Retro Mentho Font from dafont.com (https://www.dafont.com/retrow-mentho.font)
  • Sakura Gelly Roll White Pen - Medium
  • Tim Holtz Thinlits Alphanumeric Tiny Type Upper
  • Sizzix Adhesive Sheet Pack, Permanent
  • Vicki Boutin Wildflower & Honey Cardboard Thickers - Wildflower
  • Versafine Onyx Black Ink
  • Saturday Afternoon Rotary Date Stamp
  • Black Cardstock
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