I am Loved and Grateful
Hi readers! Happy Wednesday to you! Please join me in welcoming guest designer Vicki Boutin to the blog today! She has a really fun scrapbook layout featuring some brand spankin’ NEW Simple Stories product and Ranger product! Enjoy!
Hi there! It’s Vicki and I am beyond excited to be sharing this project on the blog today!
Simple Stories new line “I Am” is probably one of my all time FAVORITE releases. I dig the color palette and the whole idea of including your story in your paper crafting. I also have a real love for Tim Holtz’s Distress paints and inks. So I combined the two in this “traditional scrapbooking meets mixed media in a contained encountered”.
The “contained” part refers to the peek-a-boo circles on the page. All of the “inky” goodness is on the bottom page and is confined to the cut outs. This technique works well when mixing papers or products with a more linear design with free flowing mixed media techniques.
Here are a few steps to follow to get the look.
- Add Distress Paint to an acrylic stamping block
- Press the “polka dot” pattern on to your patterned paper. I like a tone on tone color palette for this.
- Add Distress Ink with an Ink Blending Tool. The paint will resist the ink.
- Ink a background stamp with Distress Ink and stamp a pattern on the paper
- Buff the ink off of the painted areas with a paper towel
- For the wood veneer title: dab two shades of Distress Paint on the wood
- While the paint is wet sprinkle the word with clear embossing powder and heat set
Go ahead and put the pieces together to create a fun layout with a twist. Or adapt the ideas to make a card.
A big thank you to Simon Says Stamp for letting me join in the fun today! Have a great day!
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Wonderful layout and colors!!!
Yay! A scrapbook page! I love Tim Holtz products too. Great quality and super colors.
luv the sentimenet! great layout!
great layout, love the colors
Great LO! ;-)
Lovely layout!
I love how easy this is, yet people will think it was super hard. Lol. Crafty secrets.
Such an awesome page
Great layout. I ‘m looking forward to meeting Vicki at CAD in New Zealand this year.
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Loving this layout!
Beautiful technique and layout.
Such a sweet photo and wonderful LO. Love the almost bokeh effect of the daubed background.
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What a tender and loving page.
Cute picture!!
Lovely lay-out. I love the paint and inking ideas!! And I think it’s so important for us to include our stories and this new SS line is so perfect.
Thanks for sharing and the detailed photos are really helpful :)
Super cute layout.
Wow, thanks for sharing all your neat techniques.
I really like your colors on this layout. So happy and cherry.
Love this. Thank you for your inspiration.
Love how you made the polka dotted element–thanks for the in instructions!
Lovely layout and great photos of the process, I love distress products!
i adore Vicki and SS and so thrilled to see a layout on the blog! I often wonder whether the challenges allow layouts too, not just cards, because as someone who is mostly a scrapper, I would love to play along too.
Great layout!!!
Fabulous layout its so unique and bright and happy
Love all the new Simple Stories products and love Vicki! Great layout as always <3!
love your colors & terrific layout!
Great job, Vicki! I lloved the colors–can’t wait until spring!
Wonderful and spring feeling page! Love the circle cut outs and buntings!
Gorgeous layout
Very sweet. A darling layout.
Awe! How sweet and beautiful!
Love the colours great job.
So sweet and lovely
Very lovely, I love the colors.
Very beautiful Layout. I love the design and the colors.
Such a bright a lovely layout. Thanks for sharing :)
Gorgeous layout!!! SO many cute details, gorgeous photo, beautiful colors… LOVE IT! Very inspirational. Thank you for sharing. :-D
I love the soft spring colors of this layout.
LOVE the details on this!
I love the circle peek-a-boo!
What a sweet page! The color combo makes it so cheerful!
Loved the different layers!
Beautiful. Your page is a great memory and something to keep forever. I like TH products, especially the new color.
awesome and beautiful layout!
What a nice layout. I love all of the different elements used and how it came together.
FABULOUS layout Vicki!!!
THANK YOU for sharing your CREATIVE INSPIRATION and inking techniques!!!
OMG I am so loving your layout!! Your picture is as precious as can be!! I am in awe of all of your outstanding clever and creative ideas for your embellishing WOW you really did share great ways to use all of the different goodies I am a die hard scrapper since 2004 and love seeing how others scrap and girl you are one super talented scraper and definitely scrap with passion. Thanks for sharing all of your ideas and spreading the inspiration. YOU so ROCK!!!
lovely page
Love this layout. Thank you for sharing.