Another Day In Paradise

Tropical Watercolors

Hi scrappers! I’m trying to work through a lot of my beach photos while the summer season is upon us. These photos were taken in Hawaii last year when we took a helicopter ride around Oahu. It was an amazing experience seeing the beaches and skyscrapers of Waikiki and the dense forests and waterfalls near the center of the island. We even saw a rainbow high enough up that is formed a perfect circle! It was definitely an amazing experience.

I tried to use lots of products from my July Cherry Box from A Cherry on Top Crafts, including the white mixed media paper from American Crafts and Vicki Boutin. It’s much thicker than normal cardstock so I was Abel to use watercolors without the paper warping too much like it will do on thinner paper. I used some shimmery watercolors by Yasutomo and used a straw to blow the water outwards to make a splatter pattern. A Vicki Boutin polka dot stencil and Blueberry Sour texture paste was layered over the top.

I cut a thick strip from Vicki Boutin’s Sketch Book paper from the Color Study collection and paired it with a scrap of gold and white geometric paper. I feel like I haven’t been using up as many paper scraps from previous projects lately and every page I make generates more. I think I need to challenge myself to make a few pages completely from left over paper!

I found an old Art C Ephemera Collage pack that is tropical themes and used some of the papers to create tags and included the acrylic palm tree and title as well as some other golden accents. Some popsicles from the Carta Bella chipboard Beach Day collection feel tropical and summery along with some Vicki Boutin layered floral stickers and teal paper flowers by Recollections. Some little cocktail stickers by Jolee’s Boutique and enamel dots by The Paper Studio add the final touch.

This page was created for the More Than Words July challenge that was themed around the word “Wonderful” and watercolors. I used watercolors on my background (although in typical fashion I ended up covering most of it up) and included the words “wonderful adventure is worth while.”

That’s all for this week. For more content, you can find me at Instagram and YouTube @thescrapattack.