Hello Summer / Paige Evans DT

Hey friends!  Happy Tuesday :)  I'm here with a fun & bright layout for the Paige Evans Design Team featuring Paige’s new 6x6 Fish Stencil. It’s perfect for summer pages! I combined it with Paige’s Fish Background cut file. I mixed and matched a few of her collections including Bloom Street, Truly Grateful, and Horizon.

My pool photos were a great match for my design idea. I began by covering the smooth white cardstock with clear gesso. Then I scraped some modeling paste over the Fish Stencil on the bottom of the page. The “water” was going to take up the bottom half, and once the fish were dry, I mixed Distress Oxides with Shimmerz to create all the blue area. I cut the Fish Background cut file from Horizon Paper 12 to get every bright color of fish.

Once the blue area was dry, I wanted to enhance some of the textured fish. I used a foam ink blending tool to lightly smudge white acrylic paint over some of them. I love how this makes some of the fish more visible and also looks like bubbles in the water. I added quite a few of the die cut fish all through the water. I added adhesive foam behind some of them and I arranged them in different directions. I used a few Truly Grateful Cardstock Stickers as layers around my photos and I tucked in a few colors of tangled thread for added color & texture.

I wanted my title to be as bright as the fish, so I mixed and matched Bloom Street Puffy Vinyl Stickers with the Truly Grateful Thickers. I fussy cut a floral cluster from a Bloom Street 2x2 Paper Pad and added it beside the title along with tangled blue thread.

It was so fun to mix collections together...even though the Truly Grateful collection is more of a Fall collection, it has amazing Summer colors.  These scallops were perfect.

How perfect is this Horizon paper for these fish?  It was super easy to get a ton of colorful fish just by using this one paper.  Here you can see how the white paint made some of the fish really pop.

I added yellow Distress Oxides and Shimmerz above the photo to mimic the sunshine. I added a big puffy sun from the Truly Grateful Epoxy Stickers, which I popped up for dimension. I also looped yellow thread under it. I added in a matching Bloom Street Cardstock Sticker above the photo.

I didn't even think about my journaling until the layout was almost finished.  I realized the only spot left for it was up top, and I hardly ever write anything in that area on my layouts.  However, there was no space down below.  I actually think it looks okay up here.

Here are a few more close-ups of all the color and texture!

I love how this page turned out so much! If you love making summer layouts you must get your hands on this Fish Stencil. You can find all of her stencils including all 7 new ones HERE. I hope you are inspired by this! Bright summer colors are my favorite!

Here is my process video showing how I made this from start to finish:

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!