Once a month learn how to use scrapbook sketches and adapt them to fit different styles, photo sizes, and themes. Sketches = endless scrapbooking ideas with little effort. Sketches do all the heavy lifting allowing you to have all the fun!
The Sketch Support fun starts today! That means a new free sketch, three new layouts based on the sketch, a YouTube video, and of course the bonus sketch examples!
Today my layout makes a few small changes to accommodate my photos.
Here is the one-page sketch that I'll be using this week:
You can also grab the Sketch Support #42 Bonus Sketch Examples!
This month it is a 3-page PDF of 23 different sketch options. That makes 24 sketches for this month of Sketch Support. There are options that show how to change up the papers, use more photos, use less photos, there are four two-page options, and then an 8-1/2 x 11" option. The fun part is that you could use each option as a layout on its own, but you could also mix and match different options for endless possibilities!
Supplies used - Cardstock, Patterned paper, die cuts, and stickers: American Crafts; Star punch: Recollections; Embroidery floss: DMC; Computer font: Century Gothic
Variation #1 - Adding more photos / Replacing the large vertical strip with photos.
I ended up replacing the large vertical strip on the sketch with a strip of photos. I had this set of five 3 x 2" photos that I had printed long ago and I had envisioned using them in a large column just like this. So this was a perfect match and great stand in for that vertical strip on the sketch!
Variation #2 - Adjusting the strips pattern to fit.
The strip on the sketch is 1" wider than my photos are, but that was an easy adaptation. I still wanted the whole design to fit the same space as the sketch, with 1" margins around all edges so I just extended the strips pattern section an extra 1". That gave me the exact same square as a whole that the sketch has.
Variation #3 - Adding extra detail to the strips.
I love the combination of bright rainbow colors with black and white and I thought since I've adhered the strips on white cardstock, let's go ahead and add some black to the design as well, to really make those colors stand out.
I used a small star punch with black cardstock and then adhered them kind of randomly throughout the strips design. Then I added my stitched lines with black embroidery floss over the tops of them.
I also went with a much larger title that kind of stands in for the photos that were on the original sketch. I used a clusters of words and phrases that fit my theme and then added some rainbow die cuts to match the rainbow of both the strips and the title.
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