Sketch Thursday : 5.26.11

Welcome to the second installment of our weekly Sketch Thursday series!  We loved seeing how last week’s sketch inspired you to scrapbook and enjoyed looking at your layouts.  We hope you have the same success this week.

For this week’s sketch, I chose Melissa Mann’s “1 Fine Day” layout.  I loved the strong vertical lines that she used to divide her layout into two distinct halves, as well as the way she used four photos on a single page layout.

The sketch features one large photo and three smaller ones – this is a great opportunity to get numerous photos on a single page layout!  It also creates several areas to place embellishments.

I stuck pretty close to the original sketch.  Since I find my time is limited when scrapbooking, I typically don’t utilize atypical sized photos.  Instead of printing smaller photos for this layout, I was able to simply crop photos that had been printed in larger sizes.  This is where I’ll note that these aren’t the best photos ever but I wanted to get them on a layout.  My husband took the two smaller photo thus I was able to crop them easily as he most times he doesn’t really think about doing it in camera.  The only real change I made on my layout was moving my journaling under my title instead of the original journaling strips on the left side of the sketch.

Elle’s Studio products used : Handmade Layers Blank Pennants, Handmade Layers Date & Place Strips, Vintage Summer Flash Cards, Handmade Layers Circle Tags and Handmade Layers Large Journaling Tags.

Other product used : Studio Calico’s Lawn Party kit.

Design team member Mandie Pierce used this week’s sketch to create this layout.  I love that she rotated the original sketch so that the three strips became horizontal bands – I love the end result!  The absolute perfect birthday layout.  I think I’m going to have to give this sketch a whirl again with this orientation!

Design team member Rebecca Keppel also used this week’s sketch to create an event layout.  She substituted a die cut for one of the three photos on the left side of the layout and included her journaling below it.  The three vertical strips were the perfect place to add a pop of color to this holiday layout.