Budapest/Romania First Page - Lily Bee/Gossamer Blue Challenge

I've been buried under end of school activities, birthday parties, DT assignments, and I finally came up for air.  Cleaned (or at least mostly cleaned since you can see the table) my craft area/dining room, and decided it was time to work on a layout!

Lily Bee and Gossamer Blue have a challenge this month - create a summertime layout.  I recently received the Destination collection, and will be incorporating it into our Budapest/Romania album.  I thought making the cover/first page of the album would be perfect for this challenge.

I started by painting the center portion of my page with some Dylusions ink sprays - just dip your paint brush into the bottle and paint away.  I painted the whole thing blue, then added the brown to deepen the blue color as well as add the brown tones in there.  Then I splattered a bit of both of the colors on the page.

Once it was dry, I went about picking out the papers.  Destination is full of blues and woodprints with some red and yellow sprinkled in too.  I wanted this to be a summery layout, so I opted for some of the lighter blues/yellows.

The light blue pattern that is layered beneath the yellow airplane print I modified a bit.  It was a softer blue and I wanted to lift/brighten the color a little, so I added some of the blue mist to some water and applied a light wash to the edges.  It's subtle, but I think it ties it together with the background a little better.

I tucked a little glassine back behind the photo to hold a tag with the journaling.  Some of the stickers from the Destination collection, some stitching, and some strategically punched globes from the woodgrian globe paper embellish the page.  Another little trick, I left the strings from the stitching free.  Instead of adding enamel dots or something else to secure them, I just tucked them under the closest sticker/thicker.  It's subtle, but adds some great texture.

Thanks for coming by, the weekend has flown for us, but lots of fun going on here!

Supplies Used
Paper/Cardstock:  Lily Bee - Destination collection; CTMH - White Daisy Cardstock
Other:  Dylusions - London Blue and Melted Chocolate Ink Sprays; American Crafts - White Journal Thickers; Lily Bee - Destination Collection alphas/stickers; CTMH - Dimensional Foam Tape; The Twinery - Denim Twine; Curtsey Boutique - Glassine Bag; Cricut - Art Philosophy Cartridge; Tombow - Mono Adhesive; Creative Memories - Circle Punch