Thursday, April 15, 2010

Crop for Kids Layout

This year's Crop for Kids is coming up fast (Oct 1 - 3, 2010) so I figured it was time to scrap my memories from last year's event.

I tried to stretch myself stylistically - not too sure how successful I was. I normally fall back on grid layouts so this was quite challenging.

The layout is based on a sketch from Practical Scrappers. I rotated the sketch and then created a second page that kind of mirrors the first. I didn't want the two pages to be exactly the same so I replaced the sunbeams on the second page with distressed brown and then used the striped paper as a backdrop for the photos. I wanted to include some pictures of the class projects so I used lines of small pictures as sunbeams. Finally, I distressed all the edges (the paper already had a distressed look to it too), added glossy accents to the titles and hand-wrote journalling along the sunbeam lines.

Recipe:

  • Practical Scrappers - sketch

  • Basic Grey "Bittersweet" collection - patterned papers

  • Glossy accents
Challenges:

4 comments:

  1. Hi Shelley
    gorgeous scarpbook pages, great lo, thank you for joining us at Totally Papercrafts this week, hope to see you next week, sue,x

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  2. awesome layouts! Come check my blog- you have won the 4 farm images from TSB!! Rhonda

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  3. love the lay out great job. I am now following you.

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