100 Awesome Days | Boys Rule Collection | Danni Visser
Hi Cocoa Vanilla fans! Danni here with a Throwback Thursday layout featuring some messy mixed media and the Boys Rule collection, plus a little You Rock and Totally Rad mixed in. These boyish collections all work so well together that I keep them together in the same plastic sleeve and use them as one big kit – so versatile!
I knew I wanted to do some mixed media today so I chose a lightly patterned background paper from Boys Rule called Good Times 12×12 patterned paper. Once I had decided where my photo would go I used a waffle stencil with white modeling paste to create texture in the space surrounding my photo. I added some colour with a distress oxide ink pad in navy blue and used a paintbrush and some water to soften and blend it. I also used a midtone blue ink spray to add variation in tone and lots of ink splatters.
I layered up my photo with a variety of patterned paper scraps in varying shades of grey, blue and yellow. In my photo my son is wearing a bright yellow bow tie, so I really wanted to add pops of that bright colour around the entire layout. With this in mind, I chose some wood veneer stars from the You Rock collection and coloured them with yellow ink. I also decided to use the “Awesome” wood veneer piece as part of my title, so I inked that in a bright teal.
I build two large embellishment clusters around my photo and a smaller one around my title. I mainly used the accessory stickers from all three collections to do this, plus the inked wood veneer stars. I chose a variety of shapes including arrows, tabs, flags and stars, mostly using blues but also making sure to add some pops of bright yellow and orange to brighten up the layout.
As a final touch I added three tiny word stickers from the Boys Rule accessory stickers, some aqua dimensional drops and some bold ink splatters in black for an extra dramatic touch. This is definitely a ‘messy’ layout, and I feel that the black splatters really help to bring it all together.
I adore how this fun layout turned out! I hope you enjoyed joining me today. You can watch the process video below on the Cocoa Vanilla Studio YouTube channel to see how I struggled with the mixed media initially, and how I managed to make it work for me in the end. Happy scrapping!
Danni x