Janine loved this Page Maps sketch and followed the basic design quite closely, even cropping her photos to the same dimensions as advised on the sketch. Then she built on it with lots of little details, layers of hand-cut paper, mixed with Prima Felt Devines and flowers in browns, greens and blues to compliment her photos.
Working from a sketch is a great way to create a double page layout. It takes the hard work out of the designing process and gives you a good place to start with positioning your photos, papers and embellishments. Sue decided to use the Crate Paper Restoration range for her double page layout and found it really fun to work with. Sue loved using the die-cut papers as the base for both of the pages.
The chipboard embellishments from the Restoration collection are really quite lovely and although they are vintage themed, Sue shows that you can use them for any type of photo, not just older ones.
Caz has used BasicGrey Max & Whiskers to introduce her darling guide dog trainee pup in a scrapbook page. She has converted the 12x12 beautifully to 8.5x11”.
Kathie wanted to base her family layout here on the happy yellow “Lace” patterned paper from Crate Paper’s Restoration collection. She’s stayed pretty true to the sketch; however rather than adopting the free-form butterfly trace in the sketch, she’s used embroidery floss (and a Crafters Workshop Dots all Around template) to create a circular shape to frame her family snapshots. This was more in keeping with the circular/continuous theme of family love, and family life.
Kathie’s applied distress inks and walnut stain liberally to further enhance the rich warm feel of the collection. She even stained the embroidery thread, then lifted and tore it back in places to reflect the shabby vintage feel of the products.
Jane Clark and Suz Doyle have created a couple of different interpretations on Becky’s sketch card. Jane has used Hambly doilies and Websters pages, wheras Suz has put Hambly and 7 Gypsies transparencies to work alongside Prima and her trusty & Gypsies stickers.
Email us your projects using any (or all!) of the above sketches to [email protected] for the fourth week of our Pagemaps Challenges. Deadline is next Tuesday 9th November. We can’t wait to see what you all come up with for our final week of sketches!
