Take a look at this weeks sketch from BG sketch artist Jana Eubank. With strips of journaling and room for plenty of photos, you can definitely make this sketch your own in so many ways!

Digital Designer Mary Rogers used the sketch as inspiration for her layout this week.  Mary notes “I knew I wanted the focus to remain on the photos, with the large photo being the focus and the small photos supporting the story.  After all the snow we have gotten over the past week, including a two day blizzard that resulted in over 30 inches of snow, it was fun that my niece captured photos of her baby Harper enjoying the snow as well.”

Now it’s your turn! We’d love to see what you create from this week’s sketch. Leave a comment below with a link to your project and we’ll select one comment at random to receive a $10 credit to shop at basicgrey.com. Comment must be posted by March 10, 2013 at 11:59p MST.

If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it over and over again.  You don’t have to copy our sketches exactly. We hope that you use them as a jumping point for your next project.  As you’ll soon see, although this week’s sketch from Susan Stringfellow is designed as a card, it didn’t stop two of our designers from creating something altogether different.

Scrapbook designer Waleska Neris used this week’s sketch as an inspiration to create this layout.  She notes, “I was inspired by the heart in the sketch but instead of one big heart I made several small ones with different patterned papers and cardstock. I combined True Love with Fact and Fiction to embellish the hearts and title (they work great together!). The journaling is hidden behind the polaroid, which I made with patterned paper and a square punch.”

BG scrapbook designer Jana Eubank also used this week’s sketch to create a layout versus a card.  Jana says, “I loved using Susan’s card sketch as inspiration for a scrapbook page. I pretty much followed the sketch exactly as she had it by zoomed out a bit to adapt it to a 12 x 12 scrapbook page. I grouped my photos together in one large rectangle, just like the large rectangle in the center of the sketch. For my background I replaced the strip on the right hand side with a series of patterned paper strips stacked on top of each other. This is a great way to use up paper scraps! The heart in the sketch really caught my attention and I decided to replicate it on my layout as a page accent. I stacked two chipboard hearts together and then used a chipboard tag, a bottlecap sticker, and a design trimmed from the Snippets to recreate the row of notched paper strips.”

Now it’s your turn! We’d love to see what you create from this week’s sketch. Leave a comment below with a link to your project and we’ll select one comment at random to receive a $10 credit to shop at basicgrey.com. Comment must be posted by February 24, 2013 at 11:59p MST.

 

Sandi Pressley

Submitted on 2013/02/18 at 8:45 pm As soon as I saw this sketch today I was inspired….here is the blog post I did with the card I made: http://lifeatthebeach51.blogspot.com/2013/02/just-note.html Thanks for the inspiration! Sandi