Hi scrappy people,
it's Lisa back on the blog and today I'm sharing my first project using the new Aria puffy alpha stickers!!
We've all been impatiently waited for the new Aria Alphas to arrive and I was so glad when I got them in the mail last week. The colors are, as always, amazing and you can surely find the one you're looking for, for each and every layout. I really love them! :)
So my idea was to create a layout using A LOT of them... but it didn't quite turn out how I first imagined it...haha!!
I wanted to start with a cutfile... so I went through the Bella Blvd cutfiles and found this new one that I LOVED. It's a tree with big flowers, it's so cute! I cut out the trunk, leaves and flowers from different Bella patterned papers. I used several collections, like Bug Explorer, Let's go on an Adventure or Wish Big. I also cut it out once more, on white paper, to have a guide on where to put the different pieces.
While the Silhouette machine was doing it's job, I created a mixed media background, using blue, purple and pink watercolors. I let it dry and splattered white and gold paint on it. Then, I let it dry again.
To adhere my tree pieces, I placed the paper guide onto the layout and "puzzled" all the pieces into it. Then I removed the guide and I had my finished tree. I was so happy, it looked so cool on the background.
The plan was to then choose a super cool, long quote from Pinterest and use my new alphas to write it on the layout, starting from the tree and going towards the right. I did that using different colors but the result wasn't satisfying.
I made a pause and came back to the layout the next day. I took off all the alphas and decided not to use as many as I has planned, but to only do a normal-sized title for this one. I went back to the tree guide, traced some more leaves and flowers, cut them out and created a part of another tree on the upper right side of the page.
I used gesso and watercolors to create texture and dimension on the trees and then also added stars and hearts.
I saw a cool scalloped green stripe on the Let's go on an Adventure sticker sheet and thought it would be amazing to put on the bottom, representing the grass. I also added some ephemera trees, a chipboard bear, an ephemera owl and some clouds, all from the same collection.
To finish, I finally used my alphas and wrote a very simple title: "Summer nights".
Like I said, you should really get some of the Aria Alphas, if possible in each and every color!! :) They are so cute and the colors are so bright and fun.
Thank you so much for stopping by, see you soon,
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