Summer of Sketches Starts Today!

Hello scrappers! I’ll be changing things up on the blog for the rest of July and August. I figure summer is such a busy time that everyone is looking for quick ways to get scrapbook pages done, and what better way than sketches? So every week on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, I’ll share a new sketch, and two example layouts. These all come from a blog series I have been doing with my sister since 2012. Feel free to use the sketches as jumping off points, or even follow them exactly. On Tuesdays and Thursdays I will post the usual set of links to freebies, giveaways and tutorials. So here’s our first sketch!

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Here are two pages using the sketch

1. By Francine

2. By Vernell

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Leave a link to your layout if you use the sketch!

Andrea used the Fun Times collection from Simple Stories to create this fabulous mini Travel Tag album. She even found a cute tiny plastic suitcase to fit it inside of, decorating the outside with a few chipboard elements and a scalloped border.

The album itself has different siezd and shaped pages, some rectangle, some tag shaped, some with scalloped edges but all stitched around the edges. It’s held together at the top with a metal “O” ring.

The pages have 3″ x 2 1/2″ photos that are accented with metal buttons, vintage cameras, floral and map papers, chipboard embellishments, tabs, labels and travel related designs in fun retro color combinations.

She’s even included some fun interactive pages too for a really cool tiny but mighty album design.

Learn more and check out the entire project over at the Simple Stories blog.

-Heather

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