January Challenge at Mystical Scrapbooks

Good morning and Happy New Year to you.

My post today is to share my Design Team layout for January's challenge at Mystical Scrapbooks

The theme for the month is Techniques and the highlighted product is ribbon & twine.

The ribbons and twine will be on sale for the month so don't forget to check them out.

The challenge that I have set is to use the "Smooshing" technique on your layout and to incorporate a ribbon or twine bow.

Here is my layout

There are eight photos and they are each 3" square.

I have used Distress and Distress Oxide inks for my smooching.

The paper I have used for my background is Bee Arty - Love & Grace - Adele

The inks I have used are 

Distress Oxides Speckled Egg & Salty Ocean

Distress Inks Broken China, Picked Raspberry, Spun Sugar, Victorian Velvet, 

Mustard Seed and Scattered Straw 

If you are unsure of how to do the "Smooshing" technique check out my process video below.

It is very simple and lots of fun.

I also added random stamping on my background using Versafine Onyx Black ink

and Uniquely Creative's Wavy Words Mini Stamp

I have used Bee Arty Love & Grace - Portia patterned paper and white cardstock

to die cut an assortment of flowers.

The dies I used are

Uniquely Creatives Little Leaves

Couture Creations CO724161

Cheery Lyn B311 Chrysanthimum Strip

and one other die that I do not know the name of.

I inked the edges of the flower layers, shaped them with my flower shaping tools 

and assembled them using my Art Glitter Glue.

I filed around each of the photos with an emery board before attaching them to my background.

Next the flower embellishments were attached

A Bakers Twine bow sits amongst the left hand floral cluster

The title was cut from black cardstock using Kaisercraft's DD700 Alphabet Upper Case Die,

attached to the right hand side of the layout and given a coat of Glossy Accents

To finish the layout off I added a scribbly boarder of slightly 

watered down black acrylic paint in my 

Fineliner bottle.

Here is my process video so you can see how I created this layout, including the "smooshing" on the background

Thank you for spending part of your day here with me today

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie