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 is all about showing how you can adapt a one-page sketch into a two-page layout. And honesty, I went a little rouge with this one!
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: American Crafts; Patterned paper, stickers, die cuts, enamel hearts: Cocoa Vanilla; Acrylic title piece: Color Cast Designs; Embroidery floss: DMC; Computer font: Century Gothic
My layout today is a far stretch from the sketch design, but I'm glad it happen it this way. Mainly because I love showing that your finished layout aboslutely does not have to look anything like the sketch. Sometimes it can all come down to one teeny tiny detail of a sketch design that sparks an idea and you take off from there. And, that's exactly the path I took with this layout.
In the beginning I thought I could kind of mimic the design of the strips pattern on the one-page sketch and extend it across both pages. I had every intention of creating a similar strips design and thought I could create sections of strips going in all kinds of different directions.
I started off by cutting a large background rectangle out of white cardstock that was going to serve as the base for the strips design. Then I started drawing some lines to break up the background piece into different sections and it was at this moment that I started straying from the original sketch design. Now, a part of me wanted to stop and reign it in a little and get back to my original idea, BUT I love letting my creative brain kind of take the lead and try my best not to stifle it. So I just kind of kept going with the flow, you might say. That is exactly how I took the sketch design as my starting point and it evolved into what you see on the layout - several small sections of angled pieces that all come together to form one large background design.
For my photos, I also strayed from the sketch and instead created one large row of photos across the middle of the layout.
Then I added my title and journaling on opposite areas of the layout, framing the row of photos. For my embellishments, I kept it super simple and added a few hearts and flowers. My background is really on the busier side, so I didn't want to over do it with embellishments.
That's all for today! Be sure to check back tomorrow for the video version of Sketch Support!
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