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Life is Better at the Beach

Today's layout was inspired by Vicki Boutin's Metallic and Watercolor Live YouTube Tutorial.  This is a fantastic tutorial showing how to make scrapbook page backgrounds using inexpensive watercolors and a foil machine.


I followed along with this tutorial to create a fun blue and green water colored background with silver accents.  To cover up the rough edges of the background, I went to Cricut Design Space and layered several brushstroke images on a 12x12 square.  I sliced the brushstrokes out of the square and cut this out of a 12x12 piece of white cardstock.  I inked around the inside edges of the layer using Black Soot Distress Ink to give this layer a little more definition before gluing it on top of the foiled, watercolored background.


I printed a 4x6 photo and matte this with black cardstock.  I cut the title using my Cricut machine.  The shell embellishments come from a Momenta Cut and Emboss die set.  I used my Sizzix Big Shot to dry emboss and cut all the shells from gray and holographic cardstock.


I used washi tape to tape the dies back onto the shells cut from gray cardstock.  Then, I used a foam blending brush and Distress Oxide Inks in Salty Ocean, Shabby Shutters, and Peacock Feathers to ink the top of the shells.  Taping the dies back on top of the die cut pieces allowed me to get a crisp inked surface across the top of the embossed shells. I also used my die cut machine to cut a few of the shells out of black fun foam.  I used the shells to embellish the bottom of the photo, the title, and 3 corners of the layout.



The addition of the holographic shells popped up on foam add such a great touch to the layout and really draw your eye to the foiled water colored background.  If you haven't tuned in to one of Vicki Boutin's Friday Night Live videos, I encourage you to give this one a try!

Life is Better at the Beach
Supplies:

  • Recollection Cardstock - White, Black Gray

  • Vicki Boutin YouTube Metallic and Watercolor Live Tutorial - https://youtu.be/zj7sR_0iXCU

  • Watercolors

  • Heidi Swapp Minc Foil - Silver Square

  • Heidi Swapp Minc Machine

  • Washi Tape

  • Foam Blending Brush

  • Distress Ink - Black Soot

  • Distress Oxide Inks - Salty Ocean, Peacock Feathers, Shabby Shutters

  • Black Fun Foam

  • Momenta Cut and Emboss Dies - Seashell

  • Cricut:  Life is Better at the Beach #MB3591F1

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