Hi there!
We hope you all had a happy Valentine or Galentine's Day! Nathalie with you today to share a bit of love inspiration using Vicki's mixed media products and paper lines and this month's Mood Board.
I borrowed a few ideas from mood board such as the black background, the garlands, the soft edges of the lace gloves and the XOs to create this page:
The first thing that caught my eye was the rainbow garlands, so I pulled a cut file from Handipaper to create garlands - i chose these ones, as they reminded me of the soft edges of the lace gloves in the board - from Foundation paper.
To bring all the rainbow colors that are in the mood board, I chose to color the garlands using Vicki's watercolor set and art crayons. My choice was to create a soft transition of colors in the garlands so they look like a rainbow when laid on the page.
All the black backgrounds in the mood board were the inspiration to add a bit of black in my background. For this i used a gessoed foundation paper, and added a bit of diluted black art crayons with a brayer, so that it cover the area behind the picture. A few splatters just help to extend the background, and make everything pop of the page.
To keep with the rainbow effect of the garlands, the embellishments were placed so that they formed clusters on sides of the picture where an specific set of colors laid. Cool colors at the bottom of the picture, and warm colors at the top corners of the picture.
For the title, i used the XOXO idea from the board, and chose to bring the Alphas from THe All The Good Things collection to form the title. I accented it by adding a few hearts cut from white foundation paper using Vicki's cut files. A few enamel dots, gold ink splatters and a few lines of journal complete this page. Here is a small video that will show you how the page came together:
I hope this has inspired you to use the Mood Board as a starting point for your next project. Remember we can be reached if you have questions, and if you complete your projects inspired on the mood board, please share them with us using the hashtag #vickiboutin or @vickiboutin on social media.
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Materials used:
VB Foundation Paper
VB Gesso
VB Watercolor set
VB Art Crayons - cool, warm and neutral set-
VB Watercolor brushes
VB Waterbrushed
VB MIster bottle
VB- All the Good Things collection - 12x12 paper pad, watercolor stickers, cardstock stickers, chipboard alphas
VB - Field Notes collection - chipboard stickers, puffy stickers, watercolor stickers, black puffy stickers
VB sticker book