Minnesota's Largest Candy Store

I did this layout for several challenges. The first was challenge #6 at My Scraps and More as part of their "Mother May I Crop" which was to use black, white and yellow. The second is this week's Fabulous Friday Challenge at Frosted Designs which was to do lacing on a project. The last was this month's challenge at Scrap Your Crap: use chipboard.

I don't usually do color challenges because I don't like to be limited in my color choices, but this one worked out well. I think I needed to be limited because the photos are pretty busy and colorful. Having a set color scheme definitely limited my embellishment options, which is where the chipboard came in handy. I sprayed and painted a circle and then put it in a bag to make it look like a giant candy. I also took a chipboard arrow and painted, inked and stamped it to work with my layout.

For the lacing challenge, I had punched all the holes across the black paper and was about to do the lacing when I had a light bulb moment and decided to set an eyelet in each hole! I used up 46 eyelets on this layout- woo hoo!

For my title I used my Cricut and Sure Cuts A Lot and played with some different fonts.  I did the shadow blackout feature on everything and cut it out together for the background and then cut the words or in the "normal" mode in different colors for the top layer.  The word "Largest" I attached with foam adhesive to give it a little dimension.

Materials:

Cardstock- American Crafts

Patterned Paper- 7gypsies and Cosmo Cricket

Chipboard- Oriental Trading Company

Eyelets- Making Memories

Gromlet- We R Memory Keepers

Twine- Pink Paislee

Fonts- Fairfax Station, Massive Headache, AC

Die Cuts- K and Company

 Die Cutter- Cricut

Software- Sure Cuts A Lot

Epoxy accents- EK Success, Pink Paislee

Spray Ink- EK Success

Paint- Liquitex

Ink- Clearsnap, Ranger

Pen- Zig

Chalk- Oriental Trading Company