I know, I know its been far too long and I have missed you but not much been happening around these parts, hence the lack of posts. I have recovered from the virus I mentioned earlier in the month, however it seem to drag my mood down and I couldn't motivate myself to do anything crafty (well if I'm honest anything at all!). Now I know that if I do get my craft on, it makes me feel better but sometimes a black mood swoops over me and I seem unable to do what I know is good for me. Does that ever happen to you? Then I find the longer I'm away from my craft desk, the harder it is to get back. Thus starting an unproductive vicious circle which can be hard to break.
However the lovely warm sunshine over the weekend, seemed to be enough to lift my mood a little and I competed this page.
It is in response to lesson four of Just One Sketch, where Miss Smith encouraged us to concentrate on a monochrome colour scheme. The good news is, after this page I felt my mojo begin to rise from the ashes, and feel April will be a much more productive month!
For the third lesson of Just One Sketch, Miss Smith encouraged us to use our sketch in mirror image.
So just to remind you here is my original sketch;
And here is my take on the sketch in mirror image.
Just love this photo - my youngest is in the stripy top and her friend Tilda! They were both enjoying a pamper session whilst we were away for New Year. You can't it but they also both had their feet in foot spas as well.
The next lesson is all about colour. Hopefully I will be able to work on that one soon.
Over at Notes on Paper, Julie is bringing you a month of Sunrays - all things yelllow to brighten up your February. When she introduced the theme I thought what a great idea - however I vary rarely use the colour yellow in my crafting and you simply won't ever catch me wearing the colour yellow. However funny thing was the only the night before I had picked out a photo of my eldest to scrap, who just happened to be wearing a yellow t-shirt so I did indeed pick out some yellow PP to use. My orginal intention was to make it more pink than yellow but after seeing Julies post I thought why not go for it in yellow!
This is my layout in the second lesson of Miss Smiths "Just one Sketch". She said take your sketch for a spin, so I rotated my 90 degrees clockwise.
Although I used the sketch, I needed to move the journaling as it did not work in the top corner and I still pefer to have my titles on the horizontal!
Although yellow is not a natural choice for me, I think I rather like this page and it certained brightens up a cold and rather grey day!
Do pop over to Julies to take a look "a month of sunrays" - the printer tray here is stunning. Also check out her pinterest board dedicated to all things yellow.
So like many of you I signed up for Miss Smiths Class "Just One Sketch". I thought it would be great inspiration in what is normally a quiet month. Well January has not been as quiet as I would have liked and I have stuggled to find anytime to find time play.
But last weekend I made a start. Firstly I looked through my layouts to find any comman thread and discovered that I seem to have a style developing! In no particluar order my pages usually include;
- one photo - usually 6x4
- plain cardstock base
- layers of PP underneath my photo.
- clusters of embleishments around the corners of the photo
- use of ribbons/buttons to add texture
- title horizontally above photo.
So based on my findings, I drew my own sketch. When I scrap I use sketches alot as they get me going but I've never considered drawing my own before.
And heres the resulting page.
As you can seen I followed the sketch in the main.
Next on the agenda is taking the sketch for a spin!
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