You Are A Little Crazy

Today's layout features my son's crazy antics and several Vicki Boutin products. To prepare the white cardstock, I covered it with a layer of clear gesso. Once it was dry, I used a red Vicki Boutin Art Crayon mixed with a little bit of water and applied it through a Vicki Boutin circular stencil using a stencil brush. I applied this to most of the cardstock and then repeated the process using an orange art crayon. I used a pallet knife to apply Finnabair Golden Nugget Effect Paste through another Vicki Boutin circular stencil diagonally across the page. To finish off the background, I mixed black acrylic paint with water and splattered it on the page.

I matte the smaller photo with an orange piece of patterned paper from the Vicki Boutin's 6x8 Color Study paper pad and matte the larger photo with the "Say Cheese" 12x12 piece of paper from the Kaleidescope collection. I also placed a piece of this paper behind the smaller photo. I used a 2" circle punch to punch several circles from these same pieces of paper as well as a the yellow star paper from the Color Study 6x8 paper pad. The photo mattes and all the circles were inked with Black Soot Distress ink.

I placed the larger photo in the upper left corner and the smaller photo in the lower right corner. I clustered three of the circles around each photo. I overlapped four of the circles above the smaller photo. To create the title, "You are A Little Crazy", I used a combination of Puffy and Chipboard Thickers. I used the same Thickers to embellish the main photo. I added a Vicki Boutin Sweet Rush sticker near the bottom of each photo. I placed a puffy camera sticker in the yellow circle near the bottom photo. The title and photo clusters were embellished with star chipboard Thickers.

I die cut a small tag from yellow lined paper and added my journaling. Black and white baker's twine was added to the top of the tag, it was inked with Black Soot Distress Ink and tucked behind the main photo.

This mixed media layout was so much fun to create and really displays my son's crazy personality.

You Are A Little Crazy

Supplies:

12x12 White Cardstock
Clear Gesso
Vicki Boutin Art Crayons - red and orange
Vicki Boutin Storyteller Radiate Stencils
Stencil Brush
Finnabair Golden Nugget Effect Paste
Black Acrylic Paint
Vicki Boutin Kaleidoscope Say Cheese Paper
Vicki Boutin Color Study 6x8 Paper Pad - Yellow Stars and Orange Paper
EK Success 2" Circle Punch
Black Soot Distress Ink
Vicki Boutin Sweet Rush Stickers
Gold Foil Chipboard Thickers - Escape the Ordinary
Puffy Thickers - Honey
Chipboard Thickers - Miscellanea
Paper House Sticky Pix Puffy Camera Stickers
Hero Arts Nested Tag Dies
Black and White Bakers Twine

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