Sketch #33

It's that time again -- another Sketchabilities reveal.

Once again, Karan Gerber has outdone herself with the Sketch. I love the one main photo with multiple supporting pictures. As I was flipping through my files, I came across these pictures of my two eldest goofing around in the backyard. Hmmm, have I scrapped them? Maybe, but I don't think so. Next I had to decide the color scheme...well, with the green grass and with it now fall, it only seemed too obvious that I should go with an autumn palette. They are some of my favorite colors afterall. And thus the layout was born. Autumn palette led to autumn leaves, autumn leaves led me to the burlap circle background. I had yet to use any of my Coordinations paper pack and since I had color and texture but no real "print", I went with the brown cardstock and sanded off a bit to highlight the embossed design of the paper. Add in a few patterned paper strips, a bit of stitching, and a few Bo Bunny Swirls and the layout was complete.





How do you scrap? Pictures first then paper selection? Paper selection then pictures? I honestly scrap both ways, it just depends. More often than not, I select my pictures fist but if I have a new paper line I am looking to use, I will find pictures that work with the colors of the papers.