Paper Recollections

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 th...

My husband has been part of amateur radio for quite some time.  He participates in several competitions each year.  Many of these require him to stay overnight at another operator's house.  He will occasionally send me pictures to update me on his progress.  This page shows him at one of his competitions.  Since he had a lot of red, white, and blue in the photo, I selected some older patriotic paper that I had in my stash to create the layout. I wanted to have the background pieces of paper to be wavy to represent radio waves.  For the embellishments, I cut out his radio call sign and a radio tower using my Cricut.  I also fussy cut the pinwheels from the Pink Paislee paper.  All items were inked with chipped sapphire distress oxide ink. K4VQ Supplies : Pink Paislee 2012 - Declaration Pinwheel We R Memory Keepers 2011 -Yankee Doodles - Flag Doodle Tim Holtz Distress Oxide - Chipped Sapphire Cricut - Radio Tower and Title (F...