Scrapbooking sketch of the week
It’s Thursday today. Somehow Wednesday seemed to completely disappear from my life this week. I’m not sure how that happened, other than spending most of the hours driving to a school prom, photographing a school prom and driving home from said school prom. Except we don’t have a car anymore so part of that time was interesting process of walking to the next town to pick up a car I can drive. Because although I can steer an elephant, I cannot drive a manual transmission.
True story.
Apologies if you now think less of me as clearly everyone cool should know how to drive a stick-shift, but I have tried to learn three times and each time I have decided I would just be a terrible driver with all that extra stuff to remember. I figure there is enough unpredictable stuff out there on the road that I want as few unknown variables behind the wheel as possible. And while The Boy can drive a car that lives at the end of our road, I have to journey to the nearest available automatic. Not that you really need to know any of this. I just somehow got onto this topic and I’m a bit unsure how to get to scrapbooking now so I’m just going to put the next image here and we’ll all quietly act like that was a seamless textual transition, okay?
This week’s sketch features three photos on three boxes and that means it a bit of a variation of March’s 4×6 Photo Love, but this time the pictures are smaller and there’s nothing hidden on my layout. On my page, I tried moving things around a bit and making the design a bit less like a grid. Now I’m thinking I’d like to try a second version and keep it just like the sketch, so that may appear here soon.
The red and green colour scheme is a little unpredictable, but those photos are actually from Christmas day, so I wanted to do something a little holiday-ish without going over the top with Christmas embellishments. I tell you that because The Boy looked at this layout and immediately asked, ‘Why did you make it look all Christmas-coloured?’ and when I reminded him we spent Christmas with elephants, he hadn’t remembered that. Today’s validation for why I scrapbook.
So no matter what your theme, colours or preference for nicely lined-up grids or haphazard boxes, I’d love to see what you create from this sketch!
As always, the weekly sketch is no-stress and just for fun! If you use it, I’d love to see, so please leave a link so we can see!
There were so many great pages submitted from the sketch last week. I loved them all! These are nine of my favourites, each with a little twist on how they adapted the sketch to work for their choice of pictures and and design. Click on the corresponding link to see each page in more detail and read about how these pages came to be.
Top row, L to R: one, two, three.
Middle row, L to R: four, five, six.
Bottom row, L to R: seven, eight and nine.
Thank you to everyone who joined in last week!
xlovesx
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