Monday, March 25, 2013

Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge (15 March 2013 Sketch Challenge)

I really love creating scrapbook pages from sketches. The sketch articles were always my favorites when I subscribed to scrapbooking magazines. It's just so fascinating to see how different people can interpret the same sketch. It might seem straightforward, but everyone will have a different take on it. So when I happened upon Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge and their monthly sketch challenges, I knew I had to participate!

Here's the sketch they asked people to use.

I've been holding onto this picture for a while. It's from my nineteenth birthday, and it was just a beautiful little moment that my mom captured while we were walking around campus. Sadly, they've since cut down the beautiful tree behind me. It always made me sad when my college started chopping down trees. Anyway, here's my interpretation of the sketch. Click on the photos to view larger versions.

Double sided cardstock is the bane of my existence! It's so hard to choose sides. In this case, I didn't! I flipped up one corner and taped it down to show off a little bit of the back side, then used two small strips of that side in the upper corner as an accent. I'm really happy with the way that worked out. Busy patterns are hard to work with, but I think these turned out well.

My supplies, as best I can remember them:

cardstock -- Bazzill
double sided cardstock -- Echo Park Paper Co., Sweet Day Lovely Chevron
felt button embellishments -- American Crafts Pebbles
letter stickers -- American Crafts Thickers
word stickers -- unknown

13 comments:

  1. So pretty!!!! Love how you used the two sided patterned paper. ~Danielle

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    1. Thank you :) It really is such a challenge to use those double sided papers, and I toyed with a few ideas before settling on the corner thing (yes, that's the technical term -- "corner thing").

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  2. Love what you did with the sketch. So fun.
    Leslie

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    1. Thank you so much. It was a really fun sketch to work with.

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  4. So sad about the tree, colleges should have lots of big, old trees. The 'corner thing" worked out wonderfully, loved those patterns, very happy Lo.

    Thanks for joining us at AFSC this week, such a cool page. x

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    1. Thank you, I really enjoyed the challenge. I will definitely be joining in in the future as well.

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  5. Bethany - wow - great layout and take on our sketch!! Thanks so much for playing along with us at Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge - hope to see you play along here soon!!!

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    1. Thank you so much! I had a great time with this challenge, so I will definitely be playing along again.

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  6. Bethany, what a cool page! I just saw yours at AFSC...love it! Nice embellishments. Cant wa to check out your other creations. Blessings!
    Jessica

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  7. Great job!
    tks for playing with us at AFSC
    xx
    Leila

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