Little Yellow Bicycle Sketch Challenge.

Liz Qualman has put a great sketch up for a challenge at Little Yellow Bicycle. I already completed it using other paper, but I hunted down some Little Yellow Bicycle paper and gave the actual challenge a go. The sketch is actually a real fun one to turn into a layout! 

 

This is Liz's sketch

 I loved using fake stitching, it really made the letters look cuddly!

As always, I wanted to distress ink, but I found with this range of paper called Zach's Life collection, all the colours defined themselves without too much help from my beloved inks. 

Here is the same sketch I completed with Grace Taylor paper:

But I am glad I chose Little Yellow Bicycle collection of Zach's Life for Drew's page. I love the distress look and the bold colours within it. As a bonus... I have enough left from the four double sheets I bought to make about four more fun layouts!

Thanks for an awesome challenge LYB! 

Liz's sketch was a surprise to me that I could use boyish paper and make it look fantastic in his album! (To be honest, I often overlook sketches with banners, as I think they may be too girly!) I'll now be re-thinking all those girly sketches I've never attempted.

Now that I know what your paper looks like, I'll be back!

Kaisercraft January Saturday Sketch #1

Love a good double layout! The sketch over at Kaisercraft blog looked like a challenge, In fact I had been staring at this sketch by Alison Wood all week:

But then I got out the Fun in the Sun Kaiser paper collection and then the whole layout plan came together in ten minutes! It had all the elements I needed. Phew!

 

All I had to add to the page was the title. I love writing titles in exactly how the boys pronounced their words at their given age. Like most kids, Drew used to have a slight lisp as he was learning his sounds at 2 years old.

For some reason, Drew and Dean have always called me Mumma, a more American way of pronouncing Mum. In Australia, 'mumma' is rarely used and I often get questioned by other mothers on it. We never encouraged or discouraged it either way and certainly don't care either way. It was a great opportunity to scrap that unique little habit of theirs.

The font is Birthday Cakes. I love it! 

I found a marquee box I liked in Accent Essentials (the cartridge that has turned out to be very essential!) And I used the thin lines of the patterned paper to make a journal box with a colourful difference. 

 The little tag topper was from Fabulous Finds.

Thanks for an awesome challenge again Kaiser.

I am really enjoying your Saturday Sketches!