It is One Page week over at Sketch Support. This month I created two projects from the single page sketch. The wonderful team at Jillibean Soup sponsored the Sketch Support team and provided a wonderful assortment of products to work with. I really love their products and was so thrilled that the team got to showcase their products. The first of the first of my two projects is a scrapbook page and is featured on the Sketch Support blog today.
For my layout based on the sketch, I stayed pretty true to the basics of the sketch with the only major change being that I chose to make all photo blocks 3" x 3" and only placed photos in four of the sections. I loved the papers so much that I honestly didn't want to cover it all up with photos!
This paper inspired me to think of spring so I pulled out some photos I snapped last year of things that I felt are some of the first signs of spring: the bunnies coming out to nibble, the Lenten Rose sprouting in my flower bed, and the daffodils and forsythia blooming in my neighborhood. I am generally not much of a journaler, but now that the page is finished, I wish I had made a place for a block of journaling to talk about the significance of those things and the arrival of spring (my most favorite season).
For my title, I had red stickers that I wanted to use that were a bit brighter than I wanted. I lightly sanded the surface and applied Vintage Photo Distress Ink over them to darken them and soften the brightness of the red.
To create dimensional embellishments, I layered button shaped cardstock stickers with corrugated shapes and journaling spots.
I love this little birdie die cut corrugated shape. I really love the chunkiness of the letters in the corrugated alphabet also.
I threaded the bakers twine onto a large eye embroidery needle and used it to stitch an X at each corner of the photo/paper squares.
I used a Copic Marker to add color to the Kraft paper base of the page. I chose a super light blue, thinking it would be a subtle touch that would tie in the blue from the other papers. It came out so faint that it really doesn't add much of anything. Rather than trying a different color, I went with it and just let it be.
One thing I really love about Jillibean Soup papers are the sweet little floral prints that mix and match so nicely. I used papers from two different collections but they blend so well that you would never know that they weren't part of the same one.
My other Sketch Support project is a frame that will be online Thursday.
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- patterned paper: Jillibean Soup Pasta Fagioli: Romano Cheese and Blended Beans; Jillibean Soup Blossom Soup: Anejo Cheese and Corn Kernals; Jillibean Soup Patterned Paper on Kraft Soup Staples Collection: Brown Pea Pod
- stickers: Jillibean Soup Cardstock Stickers: Chilled Strawberry Soup
- fiber: Jillibean Soup Bean Stalks
- elements: Jillibean Soup Corrugated Shapes: Flowers
- alphabets: Jillibean Soup Corrugated Alphas: Blue; BasicGrey Micro Mono Stickers: Wander
- ink: Vintage Photo Distress Ink
