Joni's Stuff: Frosted Designs -- April Kit

Monday, May 19, 2014

Frosted Designs -- April Kit

Here is a post from Frosted Designs last week...(I didn't realize that they used it and I forgot to put it up on my blog)...

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Hi..it's Joni here and yes...it's May and I'm playing with my new May kit, but I have a couple layouts from last months kit to share with you.

When I finished these 2, I realized that I basically used the same design on both of them....guess I'm pretty predictable!!

On the first one, I started with the wood grain paper and it already has the white splotches on it. I used modeling paste mixed with the Lindy's Brown (kit) and added it with the harlequin stencil (kit). Now...I mixed up way too much of the brown modeling paste, so a trick to not waste it is to just grab another sheet of cardstock and apply some and make another background to use later. (There's a point to my "tip").

I then mixed some of the Lindy's brown with water and flicked it around the layout with a paint brush. I also used this mixture to paint the Prima flower to make it more "boyish" for this layout. I also used this mixture to paint the chipboard flourishes and used the distress markers to accent them.

I fussy cut the balloon/journey from another sheet of paper in the kit and popped it up. A few other embellies, butterflies, stickers & pearls....(and twine from my stash)....done!!

So...remember above where I said I just created a random background with my extra modeling paste/Lindy's mixture? -- Guess what I did next? So after I got looking at this background, I realized that the color that I had created was "Kraft" -- good, because I love kraft!! I added some flowers here, and the "LOVE ink bottle"...well I just busted off the top and used the bottom with the word and tucked it right up against the paper.