Summer Sun & Fun | Sunkissed Collection | Melissa Vining

Hi everyone, I’m back with another Summer Layout using the beautiful Sunkissed collection!! I’ve been making my way through scrapbooking my Summer beach holiday photos from earlier in the year and Sunkissed has been perfect for all of these happy memories. For this layout I decided to document a photo of my teenaged son, because I’m very aware that probably 90 percent of my layouts are girly!  I hope that those of you that love boy layouts enjoy seeing this page!

The cut file is a free one from Paige Evans, and it was perfect for my title because I could make it work for a boy themed layout.  I used a large piece of Just Chillin’ for the cloud background, and positioned the horizon line of the sun along the line of the paper.

I backed the cut file with Sunny Days, Summer Lights, and Fun in the Sun.  The gold glitter paper that I used to back the ampersand is from my stash.

I used art crayons to add some interest behind the words of the cut file in matching colours.  It’s very subtle, but definitely adds some interest. I kept my embellishment very simple, and tried to avoid girly icons and flowers (although I did use one Puffy Sticker flower).

I also embellished with Die Cut Ephemera, Wood Epoxy Buttons and one Accessory Sticker.  My final touch was to add white splatters from watered down acrylic paint.

I created process video that you can watch below.

I hope I inspired you to create boy themed layouts with Sunkissed!

Melissa xx