Dear Sir || Katie Kinnamon

Hello Everyone!  I am back for week two of my Spotlight Sparkler month.  This week I’m sharing a layout that’s a lot silly and that made it so much fun to create.  My son and I joke back and forth often “I mustache you a question” and the other says “Let me mullet over.”  Silly for sure, but it makes us smile.  My mornings consist of an hour sitting in the truck with my daughter waiting between school drop offs, while my afternoons are an hour sitting with my son.  It’s a great time to laugh and catch up.  We also send a lot of silly snapchat photos to my mom.  One morning my daughter put together some parts of a robot building kit into a mustache.  Of course, I had to take a silly picture with it and more silly pictures with her.  I decided to make a layout with one of the pictures to document both our silly mornings and the mustache.  All the products used on the layout will be listed at the end of the post.

I pulled out quite a few of my black and white washi tapes and stuck them down in a row. I put down some gesso where I knew the photo was going to go.  At that point I finally started to think about papers to mat my photo with.  I settled on some scraps of random Paige Evans Turn the Page papers.  I pulled out a few Shimmerz that matched to make the mixed media part behind where I knew I wanted my photo to go.  My son came in around that point to check on me and decided he wanted to do the black and white splatters out of watered down acrylic paint. I pulled out the ephemera pack for the Turn the Page collection to add flowers around the photo. To add some dimension, I added a shadow around the flowers with some very watered down Shimmerz Paste-eez.

I decided I wanted to use a few of the Tropical Flower wood veneers from SMS but I didn’t want to leave them as is.  After a couple coats of gesso, I painted them with Shimmerz paints – the same ones from the background.  While those dried, I stamped a few of the flowers and leaves from the Turn the Page stamp set.  I then laid out my title with thickers and got that stuck down.  Next up was gluing down the wood veneers, adding some puffy stickers and playing with sequins.  I tried sprinkling around sequins that matched all the colors used, but that felt like too much.  I settled on gold, teal and navy sequins to add the perfect finishing touch.

I love having options, so my stash of SMS sequins gets thoroughly gone through with each layout.  I love that the packs of sequins are affordable and a discount code always helps.  If you’d like to grow your stash, use the discount code Katie15 to get 15% off of your order.  Thanks for stopping by today!  I hope you all have a great week! 

Layout Recipe:
Assorted black and white washi tape from assorted companies a few of which are: Close to my Heart, Dear Lizzy, Tim Holtz
Paige Evans Turn the Page collection: paper scraps, ephemera, puffy stickers, layered stamps set
Black StazOn ink
Thickers in Dear Lizzy Woodland and Twilight
Shimmerz Paints: Vibes in Pop Art Pink; Inklingz in Oakie Bear Blue and Miner Miner 49-er; Creameez in Daffodil; Paste-eez in Lava Flow
SMS Wood Veneers in Tropical Flower wood veneers
SMS Sequins in Metallic Mess, Earthy Treasures, Tweaky Teal