Hello to all! Welcome to another small part of the exciting Blog Hop by Stuck on U Sketches that begins this weekend. Here is the sketch we used...
This is my translation...
This is my translation...
My husband bought an antique bike that Justin and his friends had to try out. They had a ball trying to ride it . It is not as easy as it looks. Peope in that era had to of been in great shape.
I varied from the sketch but, only a little. Instead of banners all the way down the side, I shortened them to make room for the tree and bike die cut. The papers were from My Minds Eye and their "The Sweetest Thing" collection. The die cuts are from Silhouette. The stickers are from Bo Bunny. The enamel dots are from Prima. Here are some more of the design details...
Mirroring the images in your picture with die cuts provides unity in design.
Here I made the tree and bike.
They were laughing so I used that for the title. The title wasn't showing up well enough so, I made a frame to go around it to give it more emphaisis and to bring in the color gold to mirror what was up top.
Embellish your die cuts to unify the desing to your page.
Here I took a small scrap and wrapped it around the bike to make streamers in the colors of the page. It gave it more purpose in the die cut and the bike then did not stick out like a sore thumb like it did without that small element. It is now part of the picture.
Here, I added enamel dots and a flower to the banners to give them emphasis and to complete another triangle to give focus to the picture and to balance the colors of brown
and gold that are in the bike and title
Give your embellishments purpose by placing them where they pull focus to where you want it.
I layered the bike on the good times label that is under the bike in the photo. Without the die cut, the bike totally escapes you when you first look at the picture.
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Place clusters of embellishments in a triangle around the photo.
What I am hoping you walk away with, after viewing this, is that it is fun and effective to use die cuts and embellishments to give them purpose to the overall designs of your page other than just filling it. Here, I did so by selection, placement, embellishment and color.
Next on the list is awesome Stephanie. Head over to her blog next to see what she has done with the sketch.
Thanks for stopping by.
21 comments:
love your LO .. such fun .. terrific tree & penny farthing bicycle .. cheers
So cute! Great layout! Love what you dd with the sketch!
Love your take on the sketch...very beautiful. Love the bicycle and the added embellies...TFS
Great use of all the different papers! And thanks a bunch for the useful "triangle" tips! That's going to be a big help to me in future layouts. I struggle with large layouts and I really think that your tips will come in handy. By the way....GREAT photo!
Beautiful layout!!!! Love that tree!!!! And the colors are fab!!!
Amazing LO.Your photos and all your embellishments really compliment each other Your placement is perfect, and I really appreciate the tips.
What a fun layout! Thanks for all the tips. Your mix of patterns is wonderful!
Holly, such a fun happy bright layout!
Great job
Loving all the details!...fab page :)
What a fun layout. You've done really great with your layering. Great cools too.
Sherry
Suoer layout, love the tree in the front!
Absolutely Wonderful layout Holly.. Love the triangle idea and I'm gonna have to take that to heart :)
hugs
Nanné
COOLNESS!
What a wonderful unique and happy page!
LOVE this Holly!
The colors are just the best with that VERY happy
photo!
xoxo
your layout is so much fun. i love the corner where you have the bike, the tree and the smaller tree on the paper. looks so good.
sorry, i meant the flower next to the tree...i did not want you to think i was nutty, hehe even i ma. LOL.
This is so cute and I love your helpful design tips! Such a seriously great photo!
Totally fun and adorable layout!
Love your layout Holly....the tree and bike are so cool! I had never thought of the triangle rule.....thanks so much for the tips I will have to try it!
Beautiful. Love how you arranged everything.
Yvette
Really like the papers that you used here! So pretty! Cute dies too!
Holly, I love your layout!! The layers are amazing and what a cute photo!!! Hope you have a wonderful week!!! Hugs!!!
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