Working from a sketch

I love using sketches for both my cards and scrap pages. Regular readers here will know how excited I am when any of the card challenge blogs that I follow use a sketch for the challenge. I also love Pencil Lines for my Scrap Book pages because they give us a new sketch every Sunday. I know I've been missing for a little while from the Pencil Lines challenges but I will be back soon. At the recent Scrapping Angels retreat in our goody bag was a sketch and some lovely goodies from the Scenic Route Loveland collection. This was my take on the sketch. I want to use a photo of me on it but at the moment don't have a decent portrait B&W picture so I've just used this one until I get one, I'll then add a title and journaling. I just wanted to show you how I interpreted the sketch. From this

I got this

I have no image in my head of how it will turn out when I start, it kind of evolves. As long as I start with coordinating papers it usually works. By the way the handsome chappy is my nephew.

Edited to add: for those who didn't win any of the Nickki Sivils prizes over at Daring Cardmakers, don't panic just nip over to Sarah's Cards, they have a lot in stock and on sale. Hooray! I got mine!

Comments

Crafting Queen said…

Fantastic layout, love the butterflies.

26 June 2010 at 12:04

UK Scrappers Blog Hop

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Christmas Project

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