Beachy Vibes & Good News!!!

I'm taking a break from my Back to School LOs of all my cute nieces and nephews.  Great news!  I finished my Master's program yesterday so now I will have SO much more free time to craft and make things!  I am SOOOOOO ready for a vacation and one of my girlfriends has suggested a horrible, awful, no-good time trip to Mexico.  In light of that, I went back into my LOs that I haven't blogged about yet and found this great project featuring me at the beach!!!  Anyone who knows me knows that I love the beach...mountains are great too (and pictures from my recent trip to Durango are coming)...but the beach is where I generally locate some of my missing spirit animals!  This picture is a few years old, but when I got this kit in the mail (whenever the heck that was) I knew that I wanted to use the darker tones of the kit and brighten them up with the sunshine and beach!  💗

Here is the final project!

I loved the contrast of the dark background and the white flowers on the paper.  But I also knew I was going to stay with some darker tones and use plenty of teal and some copper-brownish colors as well!  To lighten the overall scheme and make it still feel beachy I picked some more feminine flowers in lighter colors.  Below you can see some of the flower clusters I used on this LO.

I love chipboard and in addition to the deeper teal hues I used to color this chipboard, I used some lighter teal that I really watered down to have a more watercolor look (and who doesn't love water color when it's associated with the ocean!!!)

Below you can see where I added in some deeper hued flowers to contrast with the feminine flowers and then I used some ephemera words for the phrase "Happy Memories" of which most all that I can remember my beach memories being! 

On the chipboard below I stuck with the same light and dark teal hues, but also added in some alcohol ink in Butterscotch and a few other darker brown colors.  I meant to (but forgot 😕😖) to add some sparkly brown glitter (am I the only person who loves their brown glitter or what?) but the overall effect came out just about the way I wanted it to!  😍

There you have it!  The most recent chapter in my education journey is closed and I am SOOOOO ready to see a beach.  (Did I mention it was 31 degrees here this morning??)

Thanks for looking!

xoxoxo,

Mel