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Sponge Painting And Die Cuts

Hi scrappers! This week I bring you a vibrant pastel palette and delicate leafy die cuts. I used some photos taken at a wedding last summer. My friend got married at a gorgeous mansion and my husband snapped a few photos on his phone of me in front of it. I tried to match my color palette to the bright greens and blues in the photos and also used papers that mirrored the pinks and corals in my dress.

I started with some bright green paper from the Spring Inks stack by Recollections. I used some acrylic paint and a makeup sponge to make a soft, impressionist background. I had initially only added some paint splatters but I’m glad I added more with the sponge. It came out so pretty! I used leaf and stem die cuts from the Sizzix Bold Flora Thinlits to form embellishment clusters. I love how delicate they are but it also makes them tough to glue down. I used an acid free glue pen and squeezed some glue out onto the Tupperware lid I use as a palette. I dipped the blunt end of my paint brush into the glue and applied it that way. It allows me to better control where I put the glue and to spread it evenly over the small, thin pieces of the die cuts.

I’ve recently discovered A Cherry on Top’s message board and there are so many fun challenged there every month. I’m so excited to try and participate in as many of them as possible.

This page was made for a 3 in a row challenge. I love a good tic tac toe/bingo challenge. Bonus points were awarded if I could use all nine elements. So I did!

Buttons/Enamel Dots: Enamel dots by Echo Park Paper Co. and Pink Fresh plus a pink button in the bottom right hand corner
Any Shade Turquoise: Thin stripes in the glitter paper and the paper behind it
2+ Photos: I used two photos on this layout
Paint or Ink: I used Apple Barrel paint in Pink Polish and Bleu Regence and Delta Ceramcoat in Azure Blue to create the background
Cloud or Water: there is a strip of cloud print paper along the bottom near the title as well as a washi sticker from a Yuxian sticker book
Puffy Stickers: I used New Day stickers from Echo Park Paper Company and Thickers puffy alpha stickers tomato my title. Both came from a previous Cherry Box
Triangles (1 large or 3 small): I used three small, two blue ones as photo corners and a pink one near the green camera sticker
The word “Fun”: I used a sticker with the phrase “Fun Times” on the left from the Carpe Diem Beautiful Mini Sticker tablet
Tag: I cut a vellum tag in half from Heidi Swapp’s Care Free ephemera pack. The bottom half is the bottom right hand corner

I used a sketch for this page from Sketch N Scrap. The layout was simple but allowed me to embellish and add to it to really make the finished page my own.

That’s all for this week. Thank you so much for visiting! You can find me over on YouTube and Instagram @thescrapattack. See you soon!