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What do you get when you combine Sizzix, Vicki Boutin, and a little bit of Tim Holtz?  A beautiful mixed media layout.  


Today's layout began with a coat of Vicki Boutin Gesso onto a piece of 12x12 white cardstock.  After the gesso dried, I applied a Vicki Boutin reddish-orange art crayon onto a piece of acetate.  I sprayed it with a little bit of water and used a stencil brush to apply the watercolor mixture through a Vicki Boutin floral stencil near three corners of the layout.  I then used a gray art crayon and applied it onto the acetate. I mixed some of Vicki Boutin's Iridescent Glaze into the art crayon using a palette knife.  I applied the silver tinted Iridescent Glaze through Vicki Boutin's dotted stencil to each of the four corners of the layout.  Finally, I mixed some black art crayon with water onto the acetate and used Tim Holt's splatter brush to make small black splatters onto the page.


While the mixed media was drying, I gathered up some coordinating papers from Vicki Boutin's Storyteller 6x8 paper pad and boxed card set along with a cranberry piece of paper from the DCWV Cranberry Christmas 12x12 paper pad.  I used the Sizzix Thinlits Floral Layers die set to cut flowers and leaves from these papers.  I adhered two of the large flowers and leaves to the top left and bottom right of the layout.  I cut up two more of the cards from the Storyteller boxed card set and layered them behind the photos.  I adhered the smaller flower and some leaves to the top right of the layout.



The letters were cut from the black striped and cranberry papers using the Momenta Alpha Thins cutting templates.  I layered these together and adhered them down the left side of the page.  The layout was made complete by using 4 sticker phrases from the Tim Holtz Idea-ology Clippings sticker pack.


This was such a fun layout to put together.  I loved getting messy with the mixed media and combining it with patterned papers to make the beautiful abstract flowers.

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Supplies:
  • 12x12 White cardstock
  • Vicki Boutin Gesso
  • Vicki Boutin Art Crayons - Set 1 and Set 3
  • Vicki Boutin Color Study Fresh Stencils
  • Vicki Boutin Iridescent Glaze
  • Vicki Boutin Color Study Bubbles Stencils
  • Vicki Boutin Storyteller Boxed Cards
  • Vicki Boutin Storyteller 6x8 Paper Pad
  • Stencil Brush
  • Palette Knife
  • Tim Holtz Distress Splatter Brush
  • DCWV Cranberry Christmas Printed Cardstock
  • Sizzix Thinlits Floral Layers
  • Momenta Alpha Thins Cutting Templates
  • Tim Holtz Idea-ology Clippings Stickers

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