Saturday, February 13, 2010

Sketch Time Again with My Mind's Eye

My Mind's Eye has posted another fabulous Sketch Challenge. These sketches are too pretty to not play along. This month in honor of Valentine's Day, there is the additional challenge of using red or pink or both on your page. Here's the sketch:
Now, this may be cheating, or maybe we can call it thinking outside the box, but instead of a Valentine inspired layout, I decided to do a Christmas layout. You see, I just happen to have a few The Merry Days Of Christmas Paper Kits that I won from MME back in December during MME's 12 Days of Christmas. Here's my take on the sketch, I rotated it counter-clockwise 90 degrees.
Here are a couple close ups. I went outside to take these pictures, and just as I was taking them it started snowing, so those little flakes of white you see are actually snow flakes!
A few details, the stitching is done by hand. I free-handed the dashed stitching, but the stitched snowflakes were done with the help of a Bazzill In Stitch Template. The punched border was done with Fiskars' Upper Crest Border Punch. The largest snowflakes around the photo were cut from The Merry Days of Christmas Holiday Shimmer paper. The only non MME products are the pearls, which are from Basic Grey.
If this looks like fun to you and you'd like to play along, you have until Thursday. You can find the contest and all the info on MME's blog here. Hope you're having a scrappy weekend!

10 comments:

Sandie said...

Beautiful!! The papers are gorgeous and how cute is that photograph!!

Robbie said...

Too CUTE!! Love that it has some real snow on it, too!!

Janine Rachau said...

I love your take and the use of the Merry Days!

AngMomof3 said...

I too had just checked out your layout! I love that you thought out of the box and did Christmas. Such a great way to scrap a greeting card! And you did a great job sticking to the sketch. Nice work!

Janelle said...

Great layout! I love the snow flakes all cut out and clustered around the picture.

Gabrielle Pollacco said...

Ever cute!! love your take on the sketch!!

~Gabrielle :)

Suzanne said...

What a sweetie! Beautiful page!

Ginger said...

Very Cute!

Liz said...

Look at that little stinker??? What a cutie and what a great LO to go with the photo. Good luck on the MME challenge. :)

Amber said...

Beautiful job, Samantha!