Let the Summer fun begin 🌞

 

And just like that Christmas is done and dusted 

and the summer shenanigans begin! 

Summer holidays for us mean many days spent at the beach and I have been hoarding beautiful beachy papers and embellishments for months in preparation for this season, so let's jump straight in with this first layout.

For my title I simply strung together some of these gorgeous word chipboards and inked them with the same teal I used on the background stencilling. 

 

I also added in a few of these delicate twigs and grasses - which looked fabulous in their raw state so there was no colouring needed. 

 

For the background I used a couple of different stencils - the first was this beautiful waves pattern that I gently pushed in around sections of the background.

And then - just to add some interest, I used the fish from this versatile little stencil to pull in the cute element into my background.

After inking the bubbles I covered the dots with glue that dries clear to give it a bit of a watery look. 

And of course, no layout is complete with scattering some of these gems around the page! 

With my leftover papers from the layout I was also able to create a fun birthday card - one that will hopefully suite a male recipient (I find guy cards the eternal challenge). 

The chipboard for this birthday card was from my favourite pack of chipboards - I love both the font and size of these chippies - they are PERFECT for cards! 

To really bring that background to life I painted inside the pattern of this 'Mermaid Scales' stencil with Crystalina Kindy Glitz and after that dried, went over the outline roughly with a white pen ...  

the effect is just a little bit of underwater magic! 

And that is just the start of the summer beachy projects. 

I look forward to sharing more with you next month. 

Cheers, Kel xo