Celebrate 6

The layout I am sharing today was inspired by the Ali Edwards Story Stamp for the theme of Celebrate. 

When working through Shimelle’s Use What You Buy Class, Stencil edition, I thought the sketch I originally selected here would work well with her third lesson.

I used Maggie Holmes Confetti paper pad for most of the layout, with exception of the rainbow ledger paper which is from Shimelle’s Main Character Energy paper pad.

I used gesso on the ledger paper to allow the wet media I was putting on top, not to soak through. It is also a little magic in that “mistakes” can be erased with a bit of water and a towel. Makes the process a little more forgiving.

The gesso and mixed media did make the paper curl and warp, which adding the base paper frame helped a bit to flatten out. 

I used Distress Inks with the packaging technique at the top and stenciled the matching color underneath. 

Since this layout started with the Story Stamp set, I managed to use a few in the layers of mixed media and at the end of the journaling block.  Love the touch it added. 

I selected ink colors to match the tickets in the collection I chose and lined them under the photos and title block. 

The sketch I used had banners represented, but since the story award about party hats, I detail cut the hats to embellish instead. 

The title used a banner from the Confetti paper pad, an acetate number from Felicity Jane and celebrate was cut with a SCT Sampler Kit die. 

Love how it came together! Thanks for stopping by!