I am trying to get back in the habit of posting more artwork on my blog. Honestly I am still getting used to the new blog but I thought what better way to start than with some Tutti Frutti Summer August SOTM inspiration. As you know each month CTMH has a great promotion they call the Stamp of the Month and the one for August was so darn cute!! I decides to have a ‘Tutti Frutti Summer’ week on my Facebook business page. So today I am going to recap the week.
I started the week by trying to find a fun method to do some coloring! I decided I was going to create a slimline card and use our Distress Oxide inks to color the cute fruit themed images. I created the card with a fun summery dare I say…tutti frutti feel 😉 The color palette was Avocado, Nectarine, Candy Apple and Flamingo, with some pops of black to set it all off. I used Picked Raspberry, Mustard Seed, Peeled Paint and Candied Apple Distress Oxides with my small water brush to color all the images. I have to say I also thing the Silver Loose Sequins were the prefect final touch.
If you are interest in watching exactly how I created the card you can check out my live video.
Then I decided I loved the card so so so much I would use it for the inspiration for my layout. I took the slimline card and combined it with my Chris’ Creative Sketch #2 and I am so in love with the final results. If you have not had a chance to download Sketch #2 you can grab it here. Here are a few photos of how the layout turned out.
I think that Chris’ Creative Sketch #2 was perfect for this layout. I created the main panel on the left page with Distress Oxide ink. The background is splattered with the Lagoon Shimmer Brush to start the process. The fun fruiti borders are the same as from the card, adding in some Twinkle Toes Holographic paper and black to set it all off.
There is a fun shaker element that I stamped using the same Tutti Frutti stamp and intense black ink and Mustard Seed for the sun and Spiced Marmalade for the orange. I added some Bitty Beads to the shaker for some color and that fun noise that shakers have. It is so fun to turn the page in your album to a fun surprise like that.
If you missed the live FB video you can watch it here. It is for sure a fun one!
As always I hope that you enjoy what I created this week. If you have any question feel free to reach out to me and if you are in Canada and need CTMH products I am happy to help with that. You can browser my shopping website at the button below.