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Watercoloring on a Layout

Happy Friday everyone!  I’m posting two layouts today, one here and one on the Clique Kits Blog!  Yes, you’ll be seeing double today my friends.  I created both of my layouts with our Clique Kits July Kit, A Midnight Summer’s Dream. This awesome kit features Allison Kreft’s Capture Life papers & stickers,
Freckled Fawn Glitter arrows, along with many other handpicked embellishments & CK Exclusives.

For this layout, I started with a piece of 12×12 American Crafts cardstock and added some soft watercolors. To create my watercolors I put about a teaspoon of water into a few separate small containers (recycled styrofoam egg cartons work great for this!) I added several drops of my various Studio Calico Mr Huey’s sprays into into the small containers of water to create my watercolors. I used a 1″ foam brush to apply the watercolors to my cardstock, being careful not to over saturate it. Then I lifted the cardstock up and let the watercolor run down the page. I hit it with my heat gun to dry it faster just to save some time.

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Here are some close ups and more details. These stickers have several sizes of frames which I wanted to utilize on this layout. I love the look of lots of different elements & small layers of papers & stickers. This is a great way to use up smaller scraps of paper too!

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Here are some more bits & pieces ;). I’ve added some other fun embellishments besides the goodies my kit. You’ll see some fabulous Pink Fresh Studio wood veneer chevrons & enamel shapes, Freckled Fawn Glitter Arrows & some hand punched cork chevrons.

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One thing I love about this layout is that I tilted my 4×4″ Instagram & it looks like it’s actually coming through the papers & embellishments!! Happy accident right there!

Thanks so much for spending your time with me today!! I love to hear from you so please leave me a comment or suggestion on something you’d like to see me cover in a post!

Also, we’re revealing our August Clique Kit today!!! Go HERE
to check it out!!

~ Jody

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