This week's color combo at CCG #196 was delicious, beachy and also romantic.
I had all these beach photos in mind and actually wanted to use one of me and Hubs, but I just kept hearing Alice Cooper's "School's Out For Summer" in my head over and over again! So I caved in.
Fortunately I had taken a photo of Andrea the last day of school but his T-shirt was purple! Well, I converted it to black and white and started working on the layout.
Isn't it always so that when you are in a hurry, the problems start piling up?
I had gessoed the white background paper very lightly but with some nice puffy strokes of gesso. When I went to mist the brick mask I encountered some problems: those of you who are familiar with Glimmer mist and gesso, know that the mist tends to pool and not really soak into the paper if it's been primed. I had forgotten about this so my brick wall turned out very odd looking :(
I saved the situation adding some gauze and paint. I used the paint very generously covering two sides of my photo with it (inspired by Solange).
BTW before I went to "construct" the brick wall, I had already used Distress Stains on the number mask (which is an old KI Memories lace paper).
The rest of the layout came together without other major problems:)
I stitched around the layout and on top of the word "summer", made some stitching in the corners - they're supposed to resemble the tic-tac-toe grid (artistic freedom in use here), and the numbers of course refer to math, and the brick wall to the school building.
I also used my EK Success border punch which gives a look that a page has been torn from a notebook.
Andrea really does NOT look happy, but it's because at 13 going on 18 you just have to look so COOL!
Finished the layout with black paint splatters (I use a thin flexible plastic wire which I just dip directly in the paint bottle and then "knock" on it with my finger - this tip is from Lindy who uses a thin twig I believe).
Without further ado (well, about time!) here's the layout:
And here are some closeup shots mostly of the texture.
