Sunny Days | August Color Kit | Simple Stories | American Crafts | Pebbles by Lorimar Ortega

 Hello Shimmerz Family,

Lorimar here with a Summer-y layout to share with you today. I would consider this layout a mixed media heavy layout, but trust me, the process is simple and so fun to make. I used the August Color Kitz and one extra Shimmerz Paints mist to make this. You can grab the August 2021 Color Kitz here, and the Don't Citron Me here. If, after reading this blog post, you need a more visual exclamation, you can catch my process video here. Remember you can get a freebie on your next Shimmerz Paints order if you write my name "Lorimar" in the comments section.

Alright, so let's get into it.

I started out with a scrap piece of gessoed white cardstock. This is where I'm going to making my affectionately called "mixed media blob" from which I'm going to cut the cutfile (from the Kitz). For this "mixed media blob", I sprayed the Fire and Spice Spitz as my first layer and then splattered Daffodil (Creameez) and Antique Lace (Shimmerz). Set this aside to dry before cutting out the cutfile at roughly 6x6. I cut it up right down the middle to use as two layering pieces beneath two of my embellishment clusters.

Next mayor step was working on my background. Using a gessoed sheet of white textured cardstock, I sprayed Velveteen Green basically all over the page. For some added variation, I sprayed and splashed some Don't Citron Me. Once that was dry, it was on to the embellishments.

For each of the embellishment cluster I used a mixture of stickers, ephemera pieces, foam stickers, and chipboard stickers from Simple Stories Sunkissed, Paige Evans Bloom Street, and Pebbles Sun & Fun collections. I love playing with dimension and layers whenever I make my clusters so the close-ups that follow will show the details of each of them. I tangled up some thread in each of the clusters for a pop of color and texture. To finish up the layout, I splashed a bit of Daffodil and Velveteen Green around the clusters.

That's it! Thank you so much for joining me today.