a few weeks ago, i was invited to be a guest designer for the little shop of sketches. one of their designers, jessica, is one of my loyal blog readers. and she passed along my info to the site's owner, tanya. they provided me with this sketch to base a layout on … and you can see all the design teams creations HERE.
and here is my take on the sketch.
i loved the photo placement on the sketch. since i had some of my really old scrapbook albums out … i was flipping through the pages seeing if any of the photos fit this design. i found these photos of alyssa and her dad at a giants game … 9 years ago. i had them on a 2 page layout … but had never actually finished it. so a good reason to start it all over.
one thing about pulling photos off of old layouts? they can be tricky to crop. back in the day … we used to cut our photos into circles and other random shapes. so to trim a circle into a square or rectangle … and not cut off anything important … that can be challenging. but that's exactly what i did on these. i did choose to use 2 smaller photos together, in place of the large focal photo. and instead of the top photo and the title underneath … i choose to put my title on the tag to take up that same photo spot. the idea is still there … just tweaked to fit my photos.
i decided to go with black and orange as my main colors. i felt like i needed another color … so i decided on green. i found these old chipboard frames .. and painted them with some green paint. they fit my smaller photos perfectly. as i was trying to think of something to use for my title … i remembered that i had these old jolee's giants stickers. i HAD to use them … after all, i've held onto them all these years. lol! the little shirt is really cute, right?
thanks to little shop of sketches for asking me to join them this week. make sure and check out their site … some great sketches. and i'll be back over there in 2 weeks with another fun surprise.
supplies:
pattern paper – making memories
3D stickers – jolee's
chipboard frames – deluxe designs
tag – creative cafe
metal rim tags – making memories
baseball brads – accent depot
paint – making memories
other – string
Laura Vegas 
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