It's that time of year again! The kids are back off to school and #ICYMI...I have pretty much the cutest nieces and nephews around so of course I had to make something special for the parents to remember this day! Up first is a little something for Jax's parents to gaze at while he's gone for the day...just in case they miss him from being home all summer long! 😂 I used the Tres Jolie Kit Club August scrapbook kit for this and I had a blast making a masculine LO that really captures part of who Jax is also. And isn't he just one of the cutest kiddos ever? (Yes, I know I'm biased!)
See the LO below...
This kit already had a great masculine feel to it with plenty of metal pieces and metal flowers, but I jazzed it up a little bit with some background texture. I used white crackle paste and a Tim Holtz stencil that I later splattered with some metallic sprays.
Even though this is a "masculine" piece, of course I was going to use some regular flowers as well! I had some metallic teal spray laying around so I splattered that on the flowers to grunge it up a bit, but also to match the blue colors in Jax's back to school shirt!
Beneath the flowers you can also see some of the chipboard from the kit that I doused with a few coats of gesso, some more metallic spray and some of the Tim Holtz foundry wax.
More flowers splattered with the teal spray and a few of the metal pieces/flowers from the kit.
Finally, I used the border from one of the pieces of paper in the kit and cut the phrases "Carpe Diem" and "Seize the Day Boys" to add some titles to this LO. I distressed the edges, inked with a little bit of TH Distress Ink and added the phrases to the LO. I added a few metal pieces from my stash and this LO was absolutely perfect! Kinda like these great kiddos I have running around here! 💕💕
Thanks for looking and stick around for everyone else's Back to School LOs as they'll be posting here in the next few weeks!
xoxo,
Mel
