Summer Days!

My cousin is kind of a Triple Threat...she has super cute kiddos, takes great pictures, and has a super eye for color and filters.  So, it should come as no surprise that sometimes I like to stalk browse her Facebook feed for pictures when I'm looking for something to work with...And that is where I came up with the photo in this little gem!!!

As usual, I was trying to use up some of the scraps I had laying around and working with a Scraps of (I believe) Darkness kit.  I loved the bright colors and I knew I had some other brightly colored things around that were just DYING to be a part of this LO...like that fabulous number paper in the layers!!!

 

The kit came with the awesome Shimmerz "Dazzlerz Paint" in Sour Apple.  The bright green color completely matched my mood for the day and gave an overall "happy" vibe to this LO.  The "old school" view master die cut is a throwback to the days when my cousins, sister, and I would spend hours playing with one at our Mimi's house.  I tore several pieces of paper to finish my background and used some red and yellow mists to stencil and splatter color on the background.  You can't see it too well, but the stencil I used was a playful mustache stencil...perfect for boys!!!

 



Below you can see more of the Sour Apple Paint and splatters along with some bright brads and random stamping.  I used some of my more brightly colored Tim Holtz Distress ink pads for the stamping!  Love his colors!  Check out the awesome Project Life elements that I used as well!  A perfect fit for this color scheme!

Below are some more close ups of layering and elements.  I used a bright red paint to paint over the frame that came with the kit.  It was already a reddish color but I wanted to make it a little brighter!  :)

And some close ups of the background paper, a die cut that I sprayed with some Color Shine mist, and some splatters. 

 

 

Thanks for looking!  Aren't these boys the cutest????

 

 

Love,

mel