Take a Sketch and Make it Yours

Before we even get started, let me say that 

I am NOT all about a perfect photo of my scrapbook pages.

I hope the photos shared here will give you inspiration to create your own; they will never be perfectly straight, or line up in a square... I really don't have the time to devote to that.

I hope you use these ideas and make your own pages --

keeping mind, that in real life my lines are straight - ha.

Okay -- I'm going to try and make this short and sweet - 

I've been a 'fan' of Cathy Zielske since the first time I saw one of her scrapbook pages - so clean and neat and simple with everything in its proper 'boxes' [real or imaginary - ha] 

And she once suggested using advertisements as a base for our scrapbook layouts.

[Let someone else do the design for you -they get paid for good design, after all... 

or something like that. Ha.]

Anyway - I've been doing it [off and on] since then --

And I wanted to share a bit of the process with you each month,

so here we go - 

The Advertisement:

These days I usually have fewer photos to use 

and since I've always wanted to highlight the photos more than the 'stuff' 

I'm drawn to layouts that have big bold photos.

The Sketch:

 I usually  do a quick sketch of the advertiesment on a sticky note - 

but am trying to give a little more attention to the 

proper dimensions for this series of posts. 

[All sketches will be for 12x12 pages, 

but you'll soon see that I use all sizes in my scrapbooks.]

Page 1:

I am truly a very simple scrapbooker.

I like clean and neat. And simple. 

Page 2:

 But I'm going to give you at least two ways 

to use the sketch each month...and I like this much better.

The most important thing I did was cover the people by the tree with a sticker - as much as I wanted to, I just couldn't bring myself to ask them to move so I could take the photo - ha.

And, really? I was enjoying the magnificent sunset with my sweetie 

far too much to worry about the perfect picture anyway...

I also put a brown mat around the photo. 

this page is 8x8, by the way, so this is a regular sized photo.

Page 3

Is the at the top of this post. 

You see, I liked the second page so much more, but I just have 

this THING with using a black pen -- 

so I had to go back and outline. A lot. Ha.

NOW I want to see what you do with this idea.

Show me your pages.

Post a link, here in the comments, or send me an email

Judy-at-faithbasedpages-dot-com 

and let me see!

 I'll randomly choose a participant to receive the 

OnceAMonthGiveaway Box.

Yep - making you work a bit for it this year - 

Let's go!