Shanna's March Sketch

Ruth here, and I am late again for Shanna’s sketch challenge again, but I won’t let that stop me from sharing on here. I love her sketches, there is something about them that makes me want to experiment more than usual. This time the sketch reminded me of Van Gogh for some reason and so I was inpired to try and make something like those strong brush strokes he used, but I wanted to try and do it with Mr Hueys. It has turned out interesting, though not what I was picturing in my head. I still love that it is different from what I normally make, I might need to practice this a few more times and see what else I can do with this technique idea. I am not a very confident “messy” scrapbooker when it comes to liquid mediums. I draw inspiration from crafters like Ashli who seem to throw art supplies about with true abandon. If you haven’t been to her blog before, I recommend checking it out, it is quite different to many of the scrapbookers I saw in CK Mag when I was starting and she inspires me to challenge the box I put myself in sometimes when I scrapbook, and reconsider the kind of rules I am unintentionally applying to my crafting.

Enough rambling, here is some eye-candy scrapbook layout:

   

Another thing I wanted to add was that this week I was inspired by another blogger, this time it was Kay Roger’s post on how she uses up her kit. I decided to take her ideas and combine them with Shimelle’s starting point’s idea and use this combo to finish my February Studio Calico kit before the March one arrives.

I took all the full sheets I had left and laid them out. Then I prepped my scraps by cutting them all into boxes instead of weird shapes and cut off all the brand stripes (unless they were patterned, then I left some one and cut some off, just made a judgement call on each one), then I split the scraps into two piles, those that were 10+ inches wide, and those that 7 inches or smaller (I didnt have any in between those approximate measurements). I chucked anything that was too small (less than a 2 inches, especially odd shapes)

I started with the most recent starting point on Shimelle’s blog and put a few scraps together to resemble it, I didnt sweat it if what I had wasn’t perfect, it was just a general place to start from. When I ran out of paper I stopped, and had about 5 scraps left, which I put with the embellishments.At this point I had 8 starting points with no photos, no titles and no embellishments.

I went to my photos and grabbed photos for about 8 layouts, and then added them to the layout they best suited, with the idea that if I couldnt make it work I would go back and get more photos, but I didnt need to do that. Then I took the top one from the stack and made a really quick layout, which I really really like! Here is a photo of the one finished layout

    

and the all 8 starting points, the finished one in the middle and the others have a photo just loosely placed on top.

I am looking forward to the “words and pretty things” stage for the other 7 layouts. I’m not sure if I will like all of them when they are finished, I’ll have to see how it does, and I don’t know that I would do it this way every month, as it is very different from just making them one at a time, but it sure was fun this month so far! I hope you are also having a scrappy week.

Coming up soon is my Project Life week 10, it has been scrapbooked but not yet photographed.. see you then!