New Sketchy Monday At Let's Get Sketchy

Good morning! Are you ready to get crafty? If so, it's Monday and that means another new sketch at Let's Get Sketchy! Today's sketch  was created by our own Bev Code. Here is the sketch:

I loved the stitching and the misting on this sketch, and couldn't wait to get started! Here's my layout:

This layout celebrates our youngest granddaughter's 2nd year as the District Cross Country Champion for her school and her age division. We are so proud of her!

I started off by stitching three corners of my background paper and making the ink droplets with Heidi Swapp's Color Shine Bronzer. I took the branding strip from the American Crafts Amy Tan/Ready Set Go patterned paper "Dress Code", and placed it along the bottom of the layout. I had just used that patterned paper on my last layout, and the branding strip was on the top of my scrap pile, and it was perfect! I found other scraps in my stash that matched the colors from the corner pattern on the background paper. From there I decided to straighten out the design, turn it 180 degrees and do a bit of layering. I'm very happy with the results.

The photos on this layout are a bit different for me. I have always printed my photos from Shutterfly or Snapfish in a 4X6 size. But I'm finding that I want to add more photos to my layouts, and many of the sketches that I use and that are offered only use one photo. So I'm going to try to print out some of my own photos at home here and there, so I can use various sizes on my layouts. It's usually easy enough to adapt a sketch to fit your needs, like I did with Bev's sketch! Now it's your turn!

I hope you all have a great week, and we are anxious to see what you come up with for this week's sketch! Keep scrapping . . . . . one layout at a time!