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Today’s page was inspired by the Simple Stories "I am" stencil and several of Vicki Boutin's products.
I wanted to create a mixed media background for the photos of my daughter getting her helix pierced. I started by using a piece of paper from the Vicki Boutin All the Good Things Mixed Media Pad and put some white gesso on the corner of the paper. I sprayed the stencil with Pixie Spray and placed it down on the white gesso. I used a paint palette knife to smear some Martha Stuart gold glitter paste onto the stencil.  I let the glitter paste dry.  At this point, I  really struggled with the photo arrangement on the page. After several tries, I gave up trying to make the background fit with the photos and I ended up just cutting a strip of the glitter paste words to use on the page.


I mounted a strip of three photos on a piece of red dotted paper from the mixed media paper pad and then adhered that to the left side of a 5x12 piece of colorful bubble paper. I used two strips of the Vicki Boutin butterfly metallic washi tape to adhere the bubble paper to a 12x12 piece of the red dotted paper.  I backed the main photo to a piece of black-and-white script paper and tore the edges around it.  I placed this photo in the upper left corner of the red dotted paper.  I tore the upper right corner out of the red dotted paper and cut out a square of the black and white script paper to fit behind the area that I tore out. This is where I decided to place the close-up photo of my daughter's piercing.


With all the photos in place, it was now time to add the embellishments.  I stamped some foliage from the Vicki Boutin Kaleidoscope Stamp and Die set onto black cardstock and embossed it with gold sparkle embossing powder. I also cut several butterflies and flower arrangements from two of the papers from the mixed media pad.  I used an embossing pen to heat emboss the outline of the leaves and parts of the butterflies with the same gold sparkle embossing powder. I used gold matte hearts and some stickers and chipboard pieces from a variety of different Thickers sets and sticker books. I folded up the edges of the butterflies to add some dimension to the page and finished off with the journaling.


I love how the layout came together with both the gold sparkle embossing powder and the matte gold embellishments. The combination of the bright papers helps to display my daughter's unique and genuine personality.

Today Is The Day
Supplies:
  • Vicki Boutin All the Good Things Mixed Media Paper Pad
  • White Gesso
  • iCraft Pixie Spray Stencil Adhesive
  • Simple Stories "I Am" Stencil
  • Martha Stuart Gold Glitter Paste
  • Palette Knife
  • Recollections Black Cardstock
  • VersaMark Embossing Ink
  • American Crafts Embossing Pen
  • All Night Media Gold Holographic Embossing Powder
  • Vicki Boutin Metallic Washi Tape
  • Vicki Boutin Color Kaleidoscope Stamp & Die Set So Fun
  • Thickers Honey Puffy Stickers
  • Thickers Wildflower Gold Holographic Chipboard Stickers
  • Maggie Homes Flourish Cardstock Mini Stickers
  • Vicki Boutin #Sticker Book with Gold Foil
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