I am going to just put it out there. I'll admit it! I am a sketch-a-holic! There I said it! Can't take it back. I really don't know what it is about sketches that just get my old wheels a-turning but they do. Sometimes I mix it up and sometimes I follow it pretty closely. It just depends! So I guess that is why I am so happy to be a part of Valerie Salmon's Got Sketch Masters Team!! I get to play with pretty sketches all the time.
So I am happy to announce that the Got Sketch blog and design team is starting out with a big bang this year, 2012!! We've got a double page sketch for you to try.
Here is my layout. You can see the original sketch on this Got Sketch blog post plus 7 samples of layouts from the other girls on the team. They are amazing and I love how even though it is all the same sketch they all look different. First, I will show you both pages.
Then a close up of each individual page. These are pictures that I took of Garrett in the beginning of December. I am trying to keep up with each month and highlight some of the things that he is doing or accomplished. I might even go back and use this same sketch for the first 4 months and then continue on with it until his first birthday. It's a great sketch to use and it has so many spaces for pictures.
The papers I used are from Fancy Pants. It is a really cute line with colors for both boys and girls. You can see that I had fun with the rubons from this line. Some of them look like a couple of the stuffed animals that he has. The flags hanging on the top were cut out from the border page. Unfortunately it was the only page that I only had 1 of so I had to make do with putting it in the center of both pages. If I ever find more I will add on to the banner so it stretches across the whole top.
For me, journaling on my computer and then cutting it out in strips is the easiest way for me to journal. I am really going to try to do better about putting some kind of journaling on my pages. I don't always do that and when I looked back at some of my old layouts of my kids as infants to compare them with what Garrett is doing I didn't have the information I was looking for. So I promised myself I would work harder starting now!
I'll be announcing some scrapbooking classes that I will be teaching in the Birmingham, AL area so if you are one of my students from Scrapbook Mania I hope that there will be something for you that you will like.
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