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Love to Dance

Today's layout uses the Bokeh technique from Vicki Boutin's Friday Night Live YouTube tutorial. This technique is truly magical, and I knew it would pair well with the stage lighting on my daughter's dance photos.  


I started by prepping a piece of 12x12 cardstock with clear gesso.  While the cardstock was drying, I cut a piece of acetate with 3 different sized circle dies, leaving a lot of space in between the circle cutouts.  I scribbled a purple Vicki Boutin art crayon on my nonstick mat and sprayed it with a little bit of water.  I used a stencil brush to pick up the pigment and applied it in a circular motion to the left side of the cardstock.  I repeated this until the whole left side was covered in purple pigment.  Then, I repeated the process using a pink art crayon.  I placed the acetate stencil with the circle cutouts on top of the pigment.  Using a slightly damp baby wipe, I placed it on one of the circle cutouts and rubbed away the pigment in a circular motion.  I lifted the acetate stencil and repeated this process in several places along the right side of the cardstock.  Next, I scribbled the purple art crayon on my nonstick mat, wet it with water, and used a stencil brush to apply the pigment to the cardstock through the stenciled circles, overlapping some of the circles where I lifted the color.  I repeated this process using the pink art crayon.  The final product revealed a beautiful side panel of soft pastel overlapping circles.


I used papers from the Paige Evans Pink Paislee Bloom Street 6x8 paper pad to matte my photos.  I overlapped the photos being careful not to cover up too much of the mixed media circles.  I ripped the edges of one of the coordinating papers and adhered this to the bottom right and top right of the layout. I used one of the patterned papers from the paper pad that had some holographic detail to cut the word "DANCE" and placed it vertically down the right side of the page.  I used a smaller script die set to cut "Love To" out of holographic cardstock and adhered it to a piece of the patterned paper.  I offset this title block in holographic cardstock and adhered it above the main photo.  


I cut butterflies out of a pink patterned paper and the bodies of the butterflies out of the same paper used for the word "DANCE".  I die cut the solid butterfly bodies out of vellum.  I adhered the butterflies to several place on the layout.  I used three black heat embossed sentiments from the Tim Holtz Tiny Text Stamp Set and inked the edges of each sentiment with Milled Lavender Distress Oxide ink.  I placed one of these on top of the main photo, one above the second photo, and the last one near the butterfly at the bottom of the page.


I absolutely love how this page turned out. If you haven't tried this technique, I encourage you to watch the tutorial linked below and give it a try.


Love to Dance
Supplies:
  • Vicki Boutin Bokeh Technique with Gesso Resist YouTube Tutorial
  • 12x12 White Cardstock
  • Liquitex Clear Gesso
  • Sizzix Circles Framelits
  • Acetate
  • Baby Wipes
  • Vicki Boutin Art Crayons
  • Stencil Brush
  • Spellbinders Delicate Butterflies Cutting Dies
  • Sizzix Thinlits Emily Tootle Alphabet Set
  • Holographic Cardstock
  • Vellum
  • Momenta 1.5 Inch Alphabet Cutting Templates
  • Stampers Anonymous - Tim Holtz - Cling Mounted Rubber Stamp Set - Tiny Text
  • Paige Evans Pink Paislee Bloom Street 6x8 Paper Pad
  • Milled Lavender Distress Oxide Ink
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