Nicole Kerr Ink: 2018 Year In Review

Hello Shimmerz Fans!

Nicole here and today I have a fun and VERY colorful layout to share with you! As 2018 comes to an end, I wanted to do a recap or a year in review type layout. I thought it would be a really fun way to end my album. This layout doesn't have much embellishing, but has LOADS of color! Here's a quick look at the final layout:

For this project, I chose to use a piece of watercolor paper as opposed to 12x12 scrapbook paper for my base. I knew with all of the colors that it was going to need to take a whole lot of water and paint. I started by choosing a rainbow of colors and ended up going with all mists for this project. Here is some "eye candy" for the colors I chose:

These are all of the colors I used and the actual order I used them in on my spread. I did not prep my watercolor paper before I began, I simply put my colors in order that I wanted to use them and had my water bottle within reach. I started by spraying the outer edge of my paper with a single color and gave it a quick mist with water so it formed a color droplet. I moved my paper around to direct that water drop towards the center of the paper. I continued with this process for every color. The key for me was to do each color as they were still wet. I let them naturally bleed into each other. The only time I took a paper towel to soak any color up was when they all reached the center of the layout and it started to create a muddy brown. Once dry, I added 1.5" photos in a circular pattern, backed by a color coordinating paper. After adhering them all down, I added in color coordinating heart embellishments, pieces of chipboard that I colored with Shimmerz Coal and my title in the center. For my journaling, I added it around the outside edge of my layout. It created a nice frame and also includes a short description of the photos that I chose every month. Here are a few close ups of my final project: