Lessons in Being Silly

My Mind's Eye is having a sketch challenge on their blog again. There's still plenty of time to play along if you'd like to! The theme this month is lessons' learned. I decided to scrap about my boys and the lesson they've taught me in being silly. Here's the sketch:

Here's my take:
The papers are from MME's Quite Contrary Little Boy Blue line. I spun the sketch 180 degrees. Instead of using 2 photos, I used 1 and used a large journaling tag in the place of the second photo. There were no lines on the journaling tag, so for an extra detail, I hand stitched lines in before journaling.

I made the leaf accents from MME Quite Contrary Little Boy Blue. I just cut them out to the approximate size I wanted and then stitched a border on them. The white pearls are Imaginisce I-rock pearls. The title letters are Prima Flocked Alphas. The started out cream, so to achieve the multi-colored look I used a light green marker to trace around the edges of the alphas. Once they were adhered to the paper, I used a brown marker to outline them one more time.

I was playing around with different ways to use stitching while making this layout. The journaling lines were one way. You can see another way in the picture above. Instead of one continuous line around the bracketed piece of background paper, I staggered my lines inside and outside of the paper. Thanks for stopping by!