Numbers and Circles Layout Tutorial

Hello everyone! I hope you had some crafty time this weekend! I managed to do the finishing touches on a project that I'll post later this week. Yesterday, I was really happy to find a new walking path through a lovely forest along a lake. Ever since I was little, when I visit certain places, such as lakes, I often wish that I could see the opposite side of the lake too. The new path happened to go along the edge of a lake right across from a beach we often go to during summer, and I have many times thought that I wanted to walk along that opposite shoreline. So now I got to do it and it was a really wonderful walk. We'll certainly go back there soon again.

This week at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog, our theme is 'We've got your number'. Fun! Don't miss the last project from our April guest designer Amy Bethke. It is a really stunning and vibrant project.

 

If you are in the vicinity, don't miss the Simon Says Stamp CREATE event, which takes place April 28-29, 2017. The tickets are sold out, but there is an on-site store and awesome Create and Takes, open for the public. You can read more about it here on the Simon Says Stamp blog. I sure wish I could go! :)

I knew immediately what I wanted to do with this theme, a scrapbooking layout for our recent two-year old. I can't believe Leo is already two, time sure flies. I took a lot of photos on his birthday and picked this set where he plays with one of his new toys. There are a lot of different numbers, and you will see them more clearly below. I took some step photos too, and the techniques work for any type of project, as usual.

I worked on watercolor paper and started with a layer of gesso. When that was dry, I mixed shades of grey, to fit with his clothes, and added Glazing Medium to the mixes. The medium makes the paint dry slower. Apply the paint with a palette knife and before it dries, rub off paint with a cloth through stencils. I used Tim Holtz's Splotches and Numeric stencils.

When the paint was dry, I stamped the background with circle stamps. The smaller ones are from Dina Wakley's Circle Patterns set, and the large one is the Circle Collage stamp by Wendy Vecchi. I love circle stamps.

Using the number two from Tim's Type Lower and Block Lower foam stamp sets, I stamped numbers all over the pages with yellow paint. Clean the stamps before the paint dries.

Mix a little yellow paint into texture paste and apply through a Polkadot stencil.

The Simon Says Stamp Exclusive Wild Cuddle Critters set was perfect for this page, especially since the same animals appear on Leo's clothes. I also have a hard time not adding a lion theme here and there for him, since he is our little lion after all.

The animals were watercolored with Distress Inks. Smear inks on a craft sheet, mist with water and pick up with a paint brush. There is also a coordinating set of dies.

I used papers from My Favorite Things and stamped them with a number background stamp, using yellow ink.

Here's a closer look at the individual pages. The photo at the top is my favourite. Leo is wearing a cute outfit that my Mom made for him for his birthday. 

It is easy to create this type of layered background with paint, stencils, stamps and paste and you can make it fit any theme.

I wanted to add a soft feeling and wool felt is perfect for that. You was die cut from white wool felt and numbers from a dark grey.

The hearts were also die cut from white wool felt. I used sentiments from different Simon Says Stamp sets all over the page.

This lion stamp is so cute! I added a heart to him too, and stamped a heart row from the same stamp set here and there with Watering Can ink.

The sentiment stickers are from Tim Holtz's Quotations metallic sticker set.

Leo loves vehicles, especially airplanes and these blocks make sounds if you pair up the two parts of a vehicle correctly. You can see that he is listening for sounds on one of the photos.

The cute giraffe, and another heart.

I wrote the journaling on cards from Simple Stories and tucked them behind the ledger paper on the second page.

I really hope you will join us in our We've Got Your Number challenge. As every week, you have a chance to win a $50 gift voucher from Simon Says Stamp. You have until Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.

Don't forget to follow Simon Says Stamp on Instagram, they post great stuff daily. 

Do you use Instagram? If so please add #sssmchallenge so we can see your entries there too.

Thank you so much for visiting today! Have a lovely week!

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin 

Supplies:

Simon Says Stamp YOU wafer die	Simon Says WILD CUDDLY CRITTERS	Simon Says Clear Stamps SWEET CAKES	Simon Says HAPPY AND SMILE	Simon Says Clear Stamps UPLIFTING THOUGHTS
Simon Says ALL MY LOVE	Wendy Vecchi CIRCLE COLLAGE	Dina Wakley CIRCLE PATTERNS	Tim Holtz BLOCK UPPER Cling Foam Stamps	Tim Holtz TYPE LOWER Cling Foam Stamps
Tim Holtz PERSPECTIVE	Tim Holtz Sizzix BROADWAY ALPHA Bigz XL	Tim Holtz Sizzix DECO ALPHA DIE Bigz XL	Tim Holtz Sizzix BILLBOARD ALPHABET	Tim Holtz Stencil NUMERIC
Tim Holtz Stencil POLKADOT	Tim Holtz SPLOTCHES	Simon Says Stamp Wool Felt White	Simon Says Stamp Wool Felt NIGHT SKY	My Favorite Things OFF THE GRID
Simple Stories THE RESET GIRL 3x4 Journaling Cards	Ranger WATERCOLOR PAPER	Tim Holtz QUOTATIONS Metallic Stickers	Ranger Archival Ink Pad JET BLACK	Ranger Wendy Vecchi Archival WATERING CAN
Tim Holtz Distress Ink VINTAGE PHOTO	Tim Holtz Distress Ink FOSSILIZED AMBER	Tim Holtz DISTRESS INK PAD PUMICE STONE	Tim Holtz Distress Ink HICKORY SMOKE	Ranger Archival Ink CHROME YELLOW
Dina Wakley Ranger ELEPHANT	Dina Wakley Ranger LEMON Paint	Dina Wakley Ranger BLACK	Dina Wakley Ranger WHITE Paint	Dina Wakley Ranger GLAZING MEDIUM
Dina Wakley Ranger WHITE GESSO	Ranger TEXTURE PASTE	Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium MATTE	Dina Wakley Ranger PALETTE KNIFE	Tim Holtz LABEL LETTERS
3M Scotch ACID FREE 0.25 Inch x 36 Yard REFILL	Tim Holtz Tonic MINI SNIPS	3M Scotch PINK ATG ADVANCED TAPE GLIDER 1/4	Sizzix BIG SHOT MACHINE Gray And White	Sizzix CUTTING PAD XL Pair
Sizzix MINT Standard Cutting Pads	Hero Arts CLEAR ACRYLIC BLOCK 3 by 3	Hero Arts CLEAR ACRYLIC BLOCK 4 x 4.5	Tim Holtz DISTRESS SPRAYER Ranger	Simon Says Stamp White FLOUR SACK TOWEL
Tim Holtz Tonic PAPER DISTRESSER	Ranger Inkssentials GLOSSY ACCENTS	Ranger Inkssentials Non Stick CRAFT SHEET

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