Keep Cool Cut File Layout featuring Scrappin Happy Epoxy Flairs and Word Phrases

Hi guys, I'm here doing a layout using the newest release of Scrappin happy Studio Flairs  and her new awesome Cardstock words!  

I'm also excited to be using a cut file (or cardstock cuts as they call them) from (Not) Just For Boys Kit Club!  It's a cool pair of sunglasses with the words KEEP COOL. When I saw this one I just had to have it!

Here's what I started out with.  I snapped a photo of me and my dog Tigger, being silly with these sunglasses so you know I just knew I had to use that cut file with this layout.  I was also excited to use my new paper pads I just got from Michaels as a HOT BUY.  Guys, if you don't know about Michael's Hot Buys you are missing out! Make sure you subscribe to their emails so you know when they are having their Hot Buys sales. I also scored a tropical paradise paper pad that was on clearance for $4.97! I choose to use these colors because well, the sunglasses are all kinds of these awesome colors and, it just so happens that it was a Color Pallet Challenge on our Facebook group and these were the exact colors!

I backed the sunglasses with part of a flamingo on both sides, I used a gorgeous aqua-green for the words KEEPIN' (but decided to back the apostrophe with a bright yellow so it pops). Then I backed the word COOL with a deep purple to pull some of that color from the actual sunglasses we had on.  The circles in the middle of the two "O", I backed with a shinny gold paper just to make it pop! I used foam adhesive to give it a bit of dimension on the page.

I had so many gorgeous papers in that Craft Smart paper pad (called Hot Tropic) that I almost couldn't decide which do use as the base.  So I decide to use a pattern paper with different shades of pinks and corals but I wanted to break it up and pull some of that deep purple out again. So I tore a page out of one of the HOT BUY pads, used the tear technique and put it on one side. I used that purple side to place my photo (which I backed with that shiny gold paper) and I did some paper tearing of each solid color that I had in the Color Challenge.  I added one of the Word Phrases along with two epoxy flairs from Scrappin Happy Studio.

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I had some empty space on the purple side so I decide to do something different.  I had all of the scraps left over from "side backing" my photo that I decided to put them into little clusters and adhere them with a flower brad in the middle. 

The top of the layout is a strip I cut from one of the pages from the paper pad and I fussy cut the bottom for the little scallops.  The bottom part of the layout is where I cut almost all of the rest of the strips from that page and decided to destress the edges of all of them.  The pineapples I backed with foam adhesive for some more dimension and then lined the rest one on top of the other.

Here is the finished layout...what do you think?  

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