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I can’t believe a week has gone already since we last looked at your responses! This week, let’s look to sketches seven and eight – Scrapbooking with a patterned paper you don’t want to hide and Making a Banner with Photos.

How appropriate is Mel’s patterned paper in her layout! Photography is pretty key to scrapbooking and I always love a camera motif! The colours here have great contrast too – it feels energetic and happy. Violeta’s layout took the sketch and decided to make the most of using several different patterned papers. There are six different patterns in all, with colours that blend well, making the bold lettering really stands out amongst all the pinks. Melissa has enlarged the focus of the sketch and made it angular, which really works! The design is clean and works well with multiple photos printed at the smaller size. There are some lovely little details, such as the stamping and the added ribbon.

The idea in this sketch is a simple idea, and something I wanted to adapt from purely embellishment to try with photo placement too. The banner is such a versatile element, you don’t have to use it just on photos, it’s a project that can be used with other paper products too.

In HevBell’s Layout she has added little extras to the banner! Putting it to full use by hanging the journaling, instead of writing it on the background, and also attaching punched embellishments. I love how the patterned paper is used more than once but for different things such as the diagonal pattern that she’s used for both the butterflies and the border strips. Both the remaining pages use tags as a main embellishment, but in different ways. Peggy placed tags in the background on her layout, along with small details such as ripping the paper slightly, and the tiny metal embellishments. The banner has been made smaller and the journalling made wider in Snoozi81’s layout. For a more orderly look, she has made the banner straight and used the tags more like photo frames than journaling cards.

And now it’s over to you! Take a look here to find plenty of sketches, and be sure to leave a link to you can show off your own personal work! I hope you are now full of inspiration to go get scrapping in the week ahead.

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12 August 2013

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