Showtime With Stan

Neon And Kraft

Hi scrappers! This week I bring you some loud colors and pictures from a loud concert! My husband’s band opened for Thrice a few years back and I took these photos of him during the performance. He rarely plays anymore so it was really fun seeing him rock out again with his friends. The stage lighting was really vibrant and inspired the color scheme for this eccentric page.

I used a page from DCWV’s Embossed Kraft stack for my background and matted it with some neon yellow cardstock from The Paper Studio’s Affinity stack. I splattered the page with some watered down acrylic paint but then proceeded to cover up about 90% of it with all the other things I added to the page. Oops. I found a packet of mixed media materials in my stash that didn’t even have a brand name on it, but did have the most perfect blue and yellow papers pre-cut to be great photo mats for my pictures. I added in some neon yellow striped paper from Prima Marketing’s Rock Out Bro stack and some polka dot paper from DCWV’s Kraft & Gold 6 X 6 stack. I’m amazed a finally used the yellow paper because it’s so loud and crazy, I didn’t think I would ever use it up. I guess I have to take more photos with neon yellow lighting in the background because the paper really shines here.

I used my Marvy Uchida lever punch to make a few tags and my Fiskars circle punch to cut up some paper scraps. I used my guillotine paper cutter to cut the circles into halves and quarters because I am incapable of cutting a straight line. I arranged all the pieces along with some miscellaneous buttons and some flair buttons by Project Life, adhesive chipboard by K & Company, and puffy stickers by The Happy Planner. I have no idea who makes the glittery kraft star stickers because I didn’t save the packaging with the brand name.

You can watch me put this page together start to finish in the video below:

This page was created for the Sketches in Thyme August challenge. This sketch was so fun and I made sure to incorporate certain elements like the tags and paint splatters. Instant of Polaroid embellishments, I used circle fragments instead.

This page was also made for the Kraft Plus August challenge that was inspired by…pie graphs? It was an unusual prompt but ended up inspiring a really unique page. I never would have though to use my circle punch in this way and I like all the curved lines in contrast to my straight-edged photos. Thank you Kraft Plus for such a unique challenge!

That’s all for this time. Thanks for joining me and I’ll see you soon!