Frosted Designs Challenge-Use two messy items

Frosted Designs is having a great challenge this week to 

 include two "messy" items on your card, layout or off the page project! Messy items might include: paint, inks, mists, gesso, molding paste.

I decided to get a little messy and create a layout for the challenge with some new Kaisercraft paper the Sandy Toes Collection.  This is a picture of my youngest daughter and my youngest granddaughter Brittany together at the beach.  

For the background I used Golden Fiber Paste to make two dimensional palm trees with a stencil.  

(One of the trees got covered up on the right)

I  then used Glimmer Mist Patina and Crushed Shells to spray over the paste and two stencils.  

On the bottom of the page I used Viva Stone Art to make the sand texture.  

After distressing the paper I used Ranger Ink Vintage Photo to ink the edges.  

Closeups: 

For added texture I used netting, shells, starfish corrugated paper, burlap and cork paper.  

Here you can see the texture of the fiber paste.  

If you like to get messy check out the challenge and what the design team has done at Frosted Designs.  Lots of inspiration and fun!

Frosted Design Direction Challenge-"Growing Up Big"

My layout today is one I created for the Frosted Designs Challenge :

What Direction?  

 Your project needs to have something indicating direction.  You can go literal and use arrows or get wordy and use directional words:  East, West, Up, Down, Over, Under, Left, Right....you get the idea.  You can even get a little creative and use a compass or weather vane....  You can interpret this any way you want, but be sure to explain it in your blog post if it's not really obvious!

I chose these pictures of my grandson Micah who just turned 2 before Christmas and is  "growing up big".  He and his sister Kenzie love to climb and be up high.  They are both little monkeys and very daring.  

I found the arrow paper in my stash and used green and orange Bazzil to mat.  

The "Growing Up Big", climb and play are files from Silhouette America and I did print and cut for them and then cut the mats in Bazzil. The title is pop dotted.  The buttons were added and I punched out a Chevron pattern from a matching paper and highlighted it with green.  I used the remaining punched 

out pieces to highlight the pictures.  

I really like the way this turned out as all the arrows and chevrons show movement, direction and being on the go and that definitely is a description of Micah.  

Thanks for looking and I hope you will leave a comment.
Happy craftin!