New Month, New Theme and layout

Hello and welcome May!! We're creating new challenge over at Cookin' Up Creations for May. Our theme for this month is Spring into Summer.

Which is a fun theme because think of the different things you can do. So, get out those flowers, beach, water/lake, pool, baseball, soccer, garden & more pictures out and start scrapping along with us

I already post the first challenge for this month called Shades of Blue. You can find the challenge

at the Cookin' Up Creations Forum  here -> Shades of Blue 

This is the layout I created for the challenge.

I started by creating my own background ombre paper. I used mists & dry paint brush to do this. Then did some droplets. I then layered papers and photo to finish the layout. I left off the journaling for the photo because It's private message to my daughter. 

Close - up of all the details.

Hand stitched sun & clouds using Amy Tan stitching templates, I then used Faber-Castell watercolor pencils to color the sun along with a water pen, I then used Marvey Uchida Liquid Applique to creae the puffy dots & swirls in the clouds.

I started layering tags, banners, vellum circles, washi, glitter tape & textured paper.

More of the layers 

Title - I used Thickers in Eric font - color corn.

Sub-title

Side cluster

Side & left bottom cluster showing the cut out. 

This cut out is exclusive to Scraptastic Club Kit

Rub-on and mini mistable camera

Mist droplets and painting. I used Mister Huey and Heidi Swapp Mists. 

I hope that you play along with us. If you create a layout  using the challenge be sure to link me to it. I would love to see it.