Playing With Sketches

By nature, I am a clean and simple paper crafter, partial to linear designs.  As such, I find that I do not use circles as often as I could (or should), particularly large circles or circles that are a design focal point.  To remedy that, I set off in search of some sketches to shake things up a bit.

I found these two sketches with large focal circles and used a bit from each design to guide my page. The sketch on the left is from an unknown source.  It was posted on the Birds of a Feather Kit Co. site. The sketch on the right is from Kelly Purkey.

I loved the messy circles from the sketch on the left and I used those as my guiding principle.  Then I pulled in the strong horizontal element of Purkey's sketch, but flipped it to make a vertical strip.

This photo of my toddler learning to blow bubbles suited the sketches particulary well, I thought, especially the whimsical nature of the left sketch.  It was fun to do some messy sewing.

At the bottom of the page, I played with a fancier stitch. I used collections from Simple Stories for this layout, mostly 100 Days of Summer with a bit of Year.O.Graphy.

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