Hello friends!
Today, I have a fun way to use up all of those extra Thickers we have laying around!
How
frustrating is it to try and make titles with the "left over" letters
from our Thicker packs?! And when we run out of vowels?! Oye! Well,
when I was flipping thru my packs, an idea came to me on how to use up
those "x" 's on a colorful layout! Why don't I take all of my left over
"x" Thickers and arrange them in an "O" shape for an "XOXO" theme
layout, get inky with my Shimmerz paints and finish it off with a
Valentines collection to show off one of my favorite pictures of my
hubby and I!!!
I'm going to show you a couple preliminary photos, but here is what the finished layout looks like:
Once
I gathered all of my Thickers, I pulled out a sheet of watercolor
paper, two sheets of plain white printer paper, gesso and an old brush. I
cut out a large "O" from the two sheets of printer paper and adhered it
to the watercolor paper. I'm using this as a guide on where I want to
put my "X" 's. (I highly suggest using watercolor paper on this project
because of the amount of weight, gesso and paint that will go on to
this page.) Once that was glued into place, I began randomly placing
all 84 "X" 's from 24 Thicker packs onto the page. Wow! Never thought I
would use all of those, but yes, I did! I didn't even cover the entire
"O" shape because I knew that was the space where I wanted my photo to
go. Once those were all in place, I covered them with two layers of
gesso...one, because there were tons of random colors that I didn't want
to show thru...plus some were cork, foam and chipboard...and two, I
wanted them to be primed for my Shimmerz paints to adhere to!
Here
are two close ups of the first and second coats of gesso...you'll
notice by the second coat, you won't be able to see the colors of the
Thickers any more:
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| First Coat |
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| Second Coat |
I let this sit for about 2 days before I moved on to the next step, which was applying all of the color! I used Inklingz She Packs a Punch, original Shimmerz Paint in Bubble Gum Blast and Spritz in Ruby for my 3 pink/red colors and Inklingz Blue Lagoon
for the blue color. I randomly placed each of the four colors over the
letters, making sure the colors didn't run too much together. I let the
color puddle in places when the water was added so it would accent the
individual letters.
With
the papers and embellishments I had picked out for this layout, there
were gold/yellow tones in it that I wanted to incorporate as well, but I
only wanted to use it as an accent color. So to highlight the few "X"
's, I used the Texturez in Gold Mine. Here is a close up when the paint was completely dry:
I absolutely LOVE this!
When
everything was finally dry, I used one of my favorite photos of my
hubby and I when we were on a plane flying to Myrtle Beach to celebrate
our 12th Anniversary. He rarely takes pictures with me, so this one was
definately making onto a layout! I also pulled out an older Valentines
collection that I had cardstock stickers and pocket page cards for and
used some of that up as well! I just love bringing together my older
paper collections with my newer paints and mists in trendy colors for a
fresh, new look!
Here are some close ups of the final layout:
And here are the Shimmerz products that I used on this layout:
(See below on how to get a FREE product when you order!!)
Thanks so much for joining me today!
I hope I've inspired you to use up those extra Thickers in a new and exciting way!
Have a colorful week!
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