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Jul 8, 2011

Making Waves With Déjà Views & Little Yellow Bicycle

This was originally published on The Little Yellow Bicycle Blog. I was featured as a Déjà Views guest designer on July 7.

Little Yellow Bicycle recently launched a new collection of embellishments from “Déjà Views – a Little Yellow Bicycle Brand”. To welcome the new collection they ‘challenged’ all of us LYB fans out there to scrap a layout with the new brand for a chance to be featured as a Déjà Views guest designer. Read more about this on the Little Yellow Bicycle Blog. I wasn’t planning on submitting a layout, but I came across this really cute journaling pocket, ’10 Things I Love About Summer’, at Michael’s and it followed me to the cash register! The journaling pocket goes really well with last year’s summer release, Boardwalk — which Little Yellow Bicycle graciously sent to me when I recently won one of their challenges.

I decided to incorporate the journaling pocket into a layout of my oldest daughter visiting Port Dover Beach on Lake Erie.What I like about the 10 Things I Love About Summer journaling pocket is that it allows you to create a lot of journaling without it taking over the entire page. As well, it’s not immediately visible so your journaling is a bit more private.  The journaling pocket also doubles as a page title with its’ bold lettering.

I wanted to create a sandy beach type effect as a page border at the bottom of my layout. I considered gluing real sand to kraft cardstock before I realized that I would be reinventing the wheel! Why not just use real sandpaper, right? So that’s what I did. The sandpaper that I used needed some spiffing up, however. So, I brushed on a layer of Tim Holtz Rock Candy Distress Stickles. While it was still wet, I put some microfine clear glitter on it as well – just to create more sparkle. The overall effect is fabulous, it really sparkles and looks like sand catching rays of sunlight.

I invested a bit more time into making waves. Here is what I did, step by step:

1. I used Little Yellow Bicycle’s Pool Side/Turquoise Tonal paper from the Boardwalk collection and I die cut some wave shapes. I used my Silhouette die cutting machine with a shape called ‘Wave Border’. There are a lot of different shapes that you could use – it doesn’t have to be this one. You could also draw some wave shapes onto the paper and hand cut them. It doesn’t need to be precise. You could use any blue/green coloured paper, it doesn’t have to be the same one that I used.
2. Next, I roughed up the edges of my waves with a Tonic Studios Tim Holtz Paper Distresser. I couldn’t use it to get into the corners and around the really small edges though, so for those areas I used the blade on a pair of scissors to distress the paper. This creates a sort of ‘foam’ effect – like what the water does when it hits the beach.
3. I added more depth and texture to my waves by brushing on some Tim Holtz Distress Crackle Paint in Picket Fence (white). Any white acrylic paint would work for this step.
4. When that was dry, I mixed some Adirondack Alcohol Ink in Sail Boat Blue with some Adirondack Alcohol Blending Solution and painted overtop of the entire wave. This goes on very translucent and creates even more depth and interest.
5. Last, but not least, I applied Tim Holtz Rock Candy Distress Stickles to my waves. This added a finishing sparkle. My motto is that everything is better with glitter! LOL!
6. My waves curled and distorted with all the paint and ink treatments. This made them look more interesting and more authentic. I applied them to my page without smoothing them down. I wanted to maintain the distorted curviness of them. I think that the overall 3D effect is very eye-catching.

Here is a shot of my ‘waves in progress’.

Some other design elements on the  page are that I added dimension to my flag banners by applying them, along with a small circular picture, to the page with pop dots.

The final page layout:

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