I had a lot of fun making this layout for the Stick It Down team. Of course I had to do something different and to me, the sketch was begging to flipped, rotated and squished for my purposes. This was the original sketch:
Which is lovely, but this is the monster I turned it into:
My reasoning was first to squish to fit on an 8.5×11 layout. Because I liked that lovely open space in the middle and it got lost when squishing horizontally, I rotated it. And left to right diagonal just flowed better to me.
For the flowers, I was inspired by the Cute Girl collection painted watercolour style roses that come in the chipboard sheet and ephemera pack… the only problem was there was only one of each! So I got a piece of scrap gessoed cardstock and my watercolours and painted a bunch more in that style! And I ended up not using the original ones because they were just randomly different.
I also splattered gold paint on them when I was doing my background splattering. The Pink Paislee C’est La Vie collection went really well with this part of the Cute Girl collection, so I used that ampersand from the ephemera pack as well as a tab that says fabulous. The acrylic heart (and arrow) are MME’s Yes, Please. That plus is from the same alphas that I used for the title- Maggie Holme’s Bloom Petals.
For the circular element of the sketch I wanted to use doilies but I didn’t have any white ones. Guess what I used? That’s right, my Silhouette. I designed a doily cut file, and I cut it out in two different sizes from white cardstock, and I cut them in half and placed them where I wanted them. I then stitched all around the page to give it a little border like in the sketch.
I played around quite a bit with the placement of my photos. Because I had so many other things going on, I ended up layering the bottom photo under the doily because otherwise you wouldn’t be able to see it at all. I also layered a bunch of Cut Girl papers under the photo, as well as some tissue paper. I fussy cut that border from another sheet from Cute Girl. Tangled pink thread added that final touch.
I did use the chipboard frame and arrow from the Cute Girl chipboard sticker sheet. I also really wanted to add some gold/white thread to those roses but the paint smudged under my sewing machine foot and got on the white thread and it wasn’t pretty. That’s why I used the paint instead, but I’m pretty happy with the final look!
Why don’t you give this sketch a try- either as is, or flipped/rotated/squished to your hearts content! If you do, don’t forget to submit it to the Stick It Down challenge link-up.
xoxo
A
