Off the Rails Watercolor Background

Hello scrappy friends!
I have my first tutorial up on the Off The Rails Blog today.  I use watercolors on layouts quite often and thought I would share how I created my background on this layout:

You can check out my step by step instructions for creating this background on the Off The Rails Blog.

I used Simple Stories You Are Here along with the July 1st Stuck?! sketch. I also played with Scrap Our Stash's book cover challenge. I was inspired by the colors and the title, so I used a travel photo. I used 5 patterned papers and fussy cut some circles for embellies.

I layered some embellies using glue and foam tape to add some dimension:

I backed my frames with patterned papers:

A few more fun embellies and my title. I also added some black mist spatters:

Here is the sketch: 

The mood board I used from Off The Rails:

and the book cover from Scrap Our Stash:

Thanks for dropping by and have a great day!