Arty shape layouts

Using sketches is an easy way to get your creative juices going...

At Sketches for Freestyle Scrappers the featured sketch is a cute little house surrounded by trees and flowers and butterflies and a great big shining sun!

Here is my version of it using an A4 piece of white Bazzill as the background.

So what did I do to make this sketch mine:

• I printed my title straight down the side of my page. Using A4 as my size makes this a relatively simple job in Microsoft Word. I moved my margins as close as possible to the side of the page, wrote my title and then test printed it until I got the look I wanted. I also did this with my journaling.
• I chose my colour scheme of black and white to represent the penguins in the movie, Madagascar, who actually speak the line. Then I added touches of green for the wild.
• I chose not to have a photo block. Rather I built my house, layered white mesh on it and added the details like windows etc with my White Uniball pen.
• I handcut the tree trunk and then created the leaves. Each layer was surrounded with another colour until I got the size I wanted. I then pop-dotted this for dimension.
• The flowers are punched using the Heidi Grace flower punch. The petals are rolled upwards, again to give dimension and then these are pop-dotted. This gives a shadowed effect to the layout.
• I used a Versa ink stamp to lightly wash the sky. I laid it on its face and dragged it gently across the page until I could just see it.
• The sun was made using Dimensional Magic. I used my tape as the template for the circles.
• The butterflies are inspired by Charlie and Lola and are simply deep cut hearts. Again pop dots give them dimension. I wanted them to be flying above the page.
• Lastly...what is that grass at the bottom of the page. WELL it is my Wild Asparagus sticker packaging cut to size.