card team member takes on the double page sketch!

Today we have a special treat! Card design team member, Sharon, has made a page to share using our double page sketch!

Sharon 

Thanks for stopping by today!

April card team!

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Sharon

Leslie

 Alison

Mandi 

Patricia

Monica

You have until the end of the month to play along with any - or all! - of our sketch challenges. Just post a link to your creation in our sidebar. If you share on social media, be sure to tag #StickItDown.

  One randomly selected winner will receive a prize from Handipaper Etsy shop! We'll also choose one winner from each sketch to be a guest designer!

single page guest post by Neva!

I am excited to give a single page layout a sketch with our team over at Stick It Down.  I had just two photos printed from an event and decided this would be a great way to showcase them since a long title was perfect for the layout.

My version is from a fall event, and the colors are very vibrant for the season.

• The Quick Quotes Autumn Brilliance Collection was perfect, I used I used two sides of one paper and one side of two more of the collection.
• A Plaid ruler for tearing paper made quick work of tearing the edges.
• During the quarantine I am learning how to use my Brother ScanNCut and Canvas Studio.  It was easy to create my own wavy edged circle frames.
• The title font is a Silhouette font, ZP Whiplash.  

I hope you enjoy my interpretation of the single page sketch!  So come a play along with us over at Stick It Down!

April single page team!

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Keighley

Sharon

Laura

process video HERE

Lisa

Melissa Kay

You have until the end of the month to play along with any - or all! - of our sketch challenges. Just post a link to your creation in our sidebar. If you share on social media, be sure to tag #StickItDown.

  One randomly selected winner will receive a prize from Handipaper Etsy shop! We'll also choose one winner from each sketch to be a guest designer!

April guest designer!

Please welcome Susan!

 

I'm an architect (and Star Wars fan) from Flemington, NJ and married to an amazing, patient husband who encouraged me to share our dining room space with my art supplies in our small circa 1889 Victorian house. We are blessed with two wonderful boys and I love to document our family through scrapbooking, because it provides me a way of getting some satisfaction organizing our photos and memories while simultaneously creating some personal artwork.

My springboard inspiration for this challenge was the large photo. It's not often that I need to incorporate such an enlarged photo into my scrapbooks. The first image I thought of is a favorite of mine from 2019; a formal photo of my sister-in-law and her niece and nephews at her wedding. There was so many great moments to document from this much anticipated family event that I've had trouble motivating myself to jump into this project for over a year. So, this challenge was my excuse to get it started!

At first I put the circular patterned paper where the sketch shows the triangular pattern, thinking that was a geometrically similar. I knew I wanted to use horizontal stripes to subtly reference the old barn walls in the photos somewhere, and after trial and error I decided to reverse the locations of the circular and striped patterns, putting the bolder pattern in the center and focus on highlighting the title. I'm not a pocket scrapbooker, but I was gifted a small tile card set, that just happened to be a wedding theme. The patterned black and white graphics worked well with the Valentine's Day paper, so I'm looking forward to incorporating more of that set on future layouts for this project.

I don't own a Cricket, so most of my titles are handmade. I've used this technique creating a banner connected with braided bakers twine in the past. I didn't have any really large alphas to use that worked so decided I would use a different font for each word in the tile, varying sizes to capture the spirit of the sketch. I love incorporating metal, grommets, wood and fibers.

Finally, I used embellishments to highlight the soft teal blues and burgundy in the papers. I've been experimenting more and more with pastes and gels on my layouts lately, and took this opportunity to use a new stencil to ground the photos more. I really like the stencil's bold graphic and how it compliments the circular paper pattern.

To read more about Susan's page, visit her BLOG.

March winners!

I apologize for the delay in announcing winners this month. I'm an "essential" employee and I have been very busy. Thank you to everyone who played along with our sketch challenges last month. Without further ado, here are our March winners!

Laurie

Katy D

 

Meghan

and our randomly selected prize winner... Leanne!

Congratulations everyone! Please email Ashley at StickItDownChallenges@gmail.com

April double page team!

Handipaper is a digital craft store, where you will find printables, clipart sets and a wide variety of digital cutting files for scrapbookers, cardmakers and DIY lovers.

Bethany

Sharon 

Lauren

Neva

Lisa

You have until the end of the month to play along with any - or all! - of our sketch challenges. Just post a link to your creation in our sidebar. If you share on social media, be sure to tag #StickItDown.

  One randomly selected winner will receive a prize from Handipaper Etsy shop! We'll also choose one winner from each sketch to be a guest designer!

Antonia takes on the April double page sketch!

Hi everyone, it’s Antonia here with a quick blog post to talk about sketches.

This month’s double page sketch is one that I made for the SID blog. I wanted to show you a number of ways I used this sketch to encourage you to allow sketches to inspire your creativity, rather than limit it.

The first layout is the one the sketch was based on. Accordingly, the two are very similar, practically identical.

The second layout is a double layout in one of my ‘days out’ albums. The layout follows the sketch closely with the background papers and the positions of the embellishment clusters, but there is a marked difference here with the photos. On the left side, the single large photo is replaced with a collage of smaller photos. On the right, the two small photos stacked in a column are replaced by three photos arranged in a block.

The third photo is the least faithful interpretation of the sketch. The sketch here is flipped, by the way. These are two single layouts, but they both form parts of the same story. The main inspiration here from the sketch is how the photos are arranged on the pages – even though they are quite large photos, they allow the viewer to see the beautiful background paper. Even though the two layouts have completely different papers for the background, there is some cohesion achieved by using the same papers for layering and matting on both sides. There is no large title on these pages, instead more journaling was introduced – these changes were made to suit the purpose of the scrapbooker: to tell a story with words, as well as with photos.

The fourth photo goes back to follow the sketch a bit more closely: the placement of the background papers, the embellishment clusters, the large title and the journaling. The main difference here is the number of photos used on the right-hand side.

The last photo is a little challenge I set to myself. Why not use a double sketch for a single layout? As I only wanted to use two photos for this layout, I decided to just use one half of the sketch. I wanted layout 4 and 5 to look very similar, as they tell the same story, but for different people and in different albums. So, I used the same sketch, the same papers and similar embellishments for these layouts.

I love sketches, because I find them so very orientating. They come very handy when I have too many papers and embellishments to choose from, and my brain becomes incapable of making too many decisions… I am quite a stick-to-the-rules sort of person, so it took me ages to allow my creativity to guide my layouts, instead of making a perfect copy of a sketch. But now that I am able to allow my mood to take me to whichever direction it fancies, I would like to encourage you to embrace your creativity and use those sketches to suit your purposes!

Thanks for stopping by the SID blog today! You can see me talk a bit more about sketches and layouts in my process video HERE.

Don’t forget to keep popping back for loads more inspirations from our lovely and talented design team throughout the month! Happy scrapping, Antonia.

April sketch reveals!

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Antonia

Process video HERE & stay tuned in for tomorrow's post featuring Antonia!

Cathy Lu

 Alison

You have until the end of the month to play along with any - or all! - of our sketch challenges. Just post a link to your creation in our sidebar. If you share on social media, be sure to tag #StickItDown.

  One randomly selected winner will receive a prize from Handipaper! We'll also choose one winner from each sketch to be a guest designer!