Tam's Second June Share....

Hi there 2Crafty lovelies, I've popped in today to share my latest design.

It's titled :

"Summer Days"

I used the following 2Crafty Chipboard on this layout:

"Summer Days Title"

"Crazy Circles"

"Circle Stack"

"6" Revolution Frames"

"Bubble Clumps"

A layout about one of my favourite sights during summer.

Each summer, for a week, we stay at the beach and everyday we do the walk to and 

from the beach with towels over the shoulder and boogie boards carefully balanced. 

I love walking behind and watching my family as they walk and chat, relaxed and happy.

I love seeing the kids grow over the years.

I actually created this one as a Guest Designer over at CSI.

2Crafty Chipboard are sponsoring this month, and I really enjoyed 'solving the case'.

Here's the case:

I loved the colours and went with the Summer Theme.

I added quite a few of the elements listed in the Case.

I used a solid white background, checks/grid, stripes, wet medium (paint), tags, thread.

I also followed the Summer Writing Prompts for my journaling and wrote about what
Summer 'looks' like as well as adding what Summer 'smells' like.

Here's a closer look at the layout:

I painted some of the circles from the "Circle Stack" in white paint and
 then added some doodling/stitched lines with a black pen.

I cut some of the circles from the "Crazy Circles" and did the opposite -
 I painted them black and added white pen stitching doodles.

I tucked these in and around the photos and layers.

I painted a "6" Revolution Frame" white and placed these on top of the
 centre photo as a way of focusing the eye into the layout.

I also tucked a few of the "Bubble Clumps" in and
 around the layout. I painted these black.

For my title "Summer Days" I painted the two words in contrast summer colours.

I applied white gesso first as I wanted the colour to be bright, and then I added ink.

I often do this to my chipboard titles, use a combo of colours. 

 It just makes the title more interesting.

Well that's about it for today.

I love this happy vibrant layout.

We'd love you to join in over at CSI this month. 

I hope I've inspired you in some way today.

I'll be back again next month, but until then, happy scrapping!

If you'd like to see more of my work you can head to my BLOG.