Remember . . . take time to smell the roses

Hi, all my crafty friends!  This past week or two, I have been working on a layout of my niece, BriAnn.  Because the pictures were in black and white, I wanted to do more of a mixed media type layout.

I got my inspiration for the colors from UmWowStudio's business card . . . I just LOVE the turquoise and black look.  Here's how the finished layout looked:

To start this layout, I cut out a "punchella" stencil on my Cameo . . . it was actually 12x12, but I cut it into three (3) 4x10 pieces.  Then using modeling paste from Studio 490, I applied it to the middle of my paper.  After letting it completely dry (I waited till the next day just to be sure), And while I waited for the embossing paste to dry, I painted my chipboard polaroid frames from UmWowStudio with Mister Huey's Mist in white.  Once the embossing paste was dry, I took some acrylic glaze in turquoise and applied it to some of the embossed area.

I then figured out where on my layout I was going to put my chipboard polaroid frames from UmWowStudio so I would know where to stamp my chevrons and place my washi tape.  I used the chevron stamp from VLVS!.  (The stamp actually had 9 chevrons but I only wanted 6, so I covered 3 with paper when I inked the stamp.)  The filmstrip washi tape was from Trendy Tape and the brick washi tape was from PaperIssues' Etsy store.  After that, I took some of my new Charcoal twine from The Twinery and unraveled it into 4 strings because it was a bit too thick for the look I wanted and I placed it behind the top right corner of my pictures and place 2 tags on the left.  I also placed a bright pink piece a paper beneath the heart on the large polaroid frame.  NOTE:  To adhere my chipboard polaroid frames to my layout, I used Helmar's 450 Quick Dry Glue . . . I am absolutely in LOVE with this glue!  It has a good strong hold and it does dry quick . . . though you do have a few seconds if you want to change  your mind. :) 

For my big title "remember", I used Thickers in "Flakey".  And  I used my embossing label maker to make "take time to smell the roses" title pieces.

And last, but not least, after adding some bling from CTMH and a badge, I flicked my turquoise paint around my LO.  And then did the same with my Silks Black Ice acrylic glaze.   

So what do you think?  I am pretty please with it myself.  And I also have another one to give my sister . . . it was my "practice" layout. :)

Till the next time I'm up in the night.  Kathy