Monday, February 18, 2013

Delight: Little Yellow Bicycle Sketch Page

Last week, I took my three-year-old and my camera to the park.  Normally, this is not a good mixture. My son, rightly so, thinks the park is for playing, not photo sessions. But before we went down to feed the ducks, I asked Cory if I could take his picture, and was surprised when he said: yes.  And smiled, to boot. 

To scrap this photo, I used a sketch by Liz Qualman and the Just Because collection from Little Yellow Bicycle. 


I adore this collection.  It's so boy friendly with red, navy and grey with some pops of light and dark teal. I used the grey squiggle paper as my background: it's playful, neutral and matched the winter landscape of my photo. 


This collection had a particularly fun mix of Clear Cuts. You can see the bird and cloud in this closeup. They are very lightweight so they don't require a lot of adhesive. I try to put adhesive in places where it won't show.  On the bird, I used adhesive on the blue wing and under the heart.  On the cloud, I used adhesive at the top and on the far right, which is covered by a chipboard cloud. 


I love the new Naturals embellishments by Little Yellow Bicycle. Here, I used a cork heart pen and a small wood pin.  The ends of the pins are tucked into a pop dot under the bird.


Here's a peek at Liz's sketch.  You can see I took a few artistic liberties - with the photos mostly - but kept the basic design. 

The Little Yellow Bicycle Sketch Challenge runs through Feb. 24.  You can find all the details on the LYB blog and Facebook page. 

17 comments:

  1. adorable layout Lizzy!!! love the red bird and your cute boy!!

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  2. OMYGOSH!! I loveeeeeeee this! That photo is ADORABLE and loveeeeeeeeeee the colors and all the little birdies!

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  3. izzy, you totally have rocked this sketch!! you have made me want to run out and buy this paper collection because i thought it might be too girly for my boys but wow you really showed it off!!! love it

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  4. Cory's smile always lights up a page (and I know how rare they are these days, LOL). :) I love your take on Liz's sketch, with the trio of hearts and the adorable bird Clear Cuts. You really rocked this, Izzy!

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  5. Love your take on the sketch, your design seemed to tone it down a bit, which I like.

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  6. Such a sweet page. Love the birds you added!

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  7. what a wonderful layout. Great pic (of course) and I love how you used the birds, etc to work with your theme of the photo (the park)

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  8. He's a cutie (and so's the page)!

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  9. What a cute layout and beautiful photo!! Love all the bird embellishments!!! xo Evie

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  10. Cute photo, Love all the birds - great layout

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  11. How sweet are those accents on your adorable layout.

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  12. This layout is SO beautiful! Your photography is absolutely stunning and you always manage to scrap your pictures perfectly.

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  13. Oh what a gorgeous layout! Lovely photo and the colours here are perfect! Love those cute pins!!

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  14. This is such a sweet layout Izzy! The photo is so sweet too...isn't he getting big!! The time passes so quickly that it's so important to scrap these sweet, precious moments! Love this page! ;-)

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  15. Very cute! You ALWAYS rock the LYB! And I love how you changed the sketch up! Hugs, Katrina

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  16. What an adorable layout. I love the everything about it. Thank you for your kind comments on my blog...you have a new follower.

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  17. Hi Izzy. Love your layout. The birds are adorable. Saw you on the paper issues link up. I love connecting with other scrapbookers (now following you). Would love for you to stop by and say hi!
    Leslie
    www.thememorynest.blogspot.com

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