11-14-12 WINNING Sketch!

Remember the sketch contest over @ Let's Scrap? 

I'm so very proud to finally be able to announce my winning sketch!  It is featured this week for 4,200+ Let's Scrap members!  Woo hoo!

I can't tell you how exciting it is for me to get an original design recognized and published.  I am over the moon about it.  I cannot wait to see the layouts coming in this week!  P.S.  I've got more news to share about sketch design over @ Let's Scrap.  Stay tuned!

This was an entirely different excercise for me.  I have NEVER designed a sketch first.  I always start with some piece of a layout that I want to use, be it the photos, patterned paper or a really cute embellishment. 

So, after looking through oodles of photos, I settled on a layout about Gracie (no surprise there.  Are you tired of her yet?).



Gracie is part Golden Retriever; and boy,
does she like to retrieve and retrieve and retrieve!



Close-up detail:

I did deviate a bit from the sketch.  Instead of two title octagons and two journaling octagons, I added a few more photos 'cuz I don't ever get tired of looking at her!

Here are the technical notes:

• All of the octagons were hand cut @ 3"
• The octagons were distressed (inked) with brown ink
• The pawprint heart was cut on my Silhouette
• Additional journaling was added to the pawprint
• The title box and journal boxes are word "clouds" generated on wordle.net, printed on white cardstock, hand cut, and mounted on pop dots.  I cannot tell you how much I love this web based word generator!  I have used it for cards, holidays, blog art, etc.  Try it...you will love it!  DISCLAIMER: you may get hooked.