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Today's layout features Distress Oxide Paints and is featured around my kids and their sweatshirts from their favorite YouTubers.  They both received their sweatshirts in the mail this week and couldn't wait to wear them.
I wanted to create a painted background.  I knew that Twisted Citron, Spun Sugar, and Black Soot Distress Oxide paints would match the color of their sweatshirts perfectly and provide the bold stripes that I wanted for my background.  I used white gesso to cover the back of a 12X12 heavy-weight white cardstock insert from a Heidi Swapp Storyline album page protector.  I used a wide paintbrush to brush a bold horizontal stripe of each of the paint colors.  I used Heidi Swapp's Gold Color Shine to add paint splatters to the painted background.


For the title, I downloaded the Blue Bird font from dafont.com and I used my Cricut machine to cut the word MERCH.  I only used the outline of the title and backed each letter with papers that coordinated with the paint colors.  I was excited to use a flamingo print paper from my stash to coordinate with my son's Flamingo sweatshirt.  I placed the title across the green stripe of paint near the top of the page.


I used pink and green enamel dots and gold cardstock heart stickers to embellish around the photo.  I used a couple of Project Life cards for my journaling block.  I used a variety of embellishments and stickers from my stash that coordinated well with the colors and theme of the layout.  



I was excited to create a bold layout to preserve my kids' obsession with merchandise from their favorite streamers.

Merch
Supplies:
  • 12x12 Heidi Swapp Storyline Page Protector Refill Page
  • Art Basics Finnabair Heavy White Gesso
  • Tim Holtz Distress Paints - Twisted Citron Spun Sugar, and Black Soot
  • Heidi Swapp Gold Color Shine
  • Best of Jen Hadfield Home + Made Paper Pad
  • American Crafts (2018) Wild Card Damask Love - Flockstar
  • Little Yellow Bicycle (2013) - Poppy (green with the white script)
  • Recollections Gold Foil Cardstock
  • Project Life Core Kit Midnight Edition
  • Blue Bird Font by Shiddiq Art https://www.dafont.com/blue-bird.font
  • Fancy Pants Hello Sunshine Tags & Labels
  • Paper Studio Enamel Dots - Pink and Green
  • Thickers Foil Chipboard Stickers - Collect
  • Pink Paislee Turn the Page Stickers
  • Crate Paper Maggie Holmes Flourish Stickers
  • Tim Holtz idea-ology Small Talk Snarky Stickers
  • Creative Devotion Alphabet Stickers
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