Mixed Media + Fussy CuttingOh hey there! Ready to hear about a new layout? I don't use dark backgrounds often, but when I do, I love how it makes such a bold statement on the page. This page uses black cardstock, brightened up with some gold paint stripes and fussy cut flowers. Here it is! For the gold stripes, I used cheap acrylic paint with a metallic finish. You can get some at any craft store. I also watered it down to add some gold splatters. Next up: fussy cutting! I used the specialty paper from Jen Hadfield's Live and Let Grow collection. I love these gold foil flowers! I filled two opposite corners with flowers and then clustered a few around my photo. A black and white picture from my wedding matches the black and gold theme perfectly. For the title, I actually used some Christmas stickers from Crate Paper Mittens and Mistletoe. There's a pair of stickers that says "happiest holidays," so I just stole the "happiest" bit for the first part of my title. The black "day" letters come from a Park Lane sticker book. I was sooo scared to stick those clear stickers right onto my photo, but I think it fills in that extra space nicely. From the same Park Lane sticker book, I used transparent, gold foil stickers to create little sentiment clusters by the fussy cut flowers. I loooove how the gold foil stands out against the dark background! Lastly, I added a few sequins to the photo-adjacent clusters and a couple lines of journaling, which run along the top and bottom edges of the page. A white gel pen was perfect for popping off the black background. If you watched my last process video, then you know that I struggled long and hard to end up with a page that I was only okay with. I made this page right afterward, and it came together super fast--less than an hour from start to finish. And I like how it turned out SO much better! I guess the lesson I learned from this is that if the creative juices aren't flowing, shove your current project in a time-out corner and pull out something else. Thanks for reading, and stay scrappy!
P.S. I should mention that my background was super inspired by a mixed media layout from Paige Evans, which you can watch here. Go check it out!
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