Play Like You're in the Big Leagues

Hi everyone,

Today I'm back to using the Canadian Winter paper collection because it's winter time in Canada, the hockey season has started, and my grandson is so gosh darned cute!  *Big Grandma smile here.*

First game away for this 5 year old, and don't cha know you gotta dress in a suit and tie the way the NHL players do?

For this layout, I decided to use a sketch by Page Maps.  I'm going to put it in an 8-1/2"x11" album, so I thought this sketch would be perfect.

Because I didn't want Greyson's hockey bag to be covered by the embellishments, I flipped the sketch in my Publisher program, and layered my photo over top to figure out what size it needed to be printed at.

Then I decided to throw another couple of photos in.  Since I print my photos at home, this helps me to save on paper and ink, by having everything sized down to the dimensions required before printing.  (This is all still on my computer screen.)

Here you can see the photos after they came out of the printer.  I threw an extra one on to use up the bottom of the paper.  (I have a very specific layout planned for THAT one!)  LOL

Here's the base of my layout.

The base with photos.

The finished layout with embellishments from the ephemera pack.

The thing I like about sketches, is that if you're mojo is totally gone, they give you a point to start at... and then the rest starts to flow as you work.  

I hope this little tutorial might have helped a little when you're using a sketch.  You change a few things to suit the style of picture you have, and the type of embellishments you're using... the point of a sketch is to get you started!

Happy creating!

Linda

Wild Whisper - Hockey Love

Hi everyone!

On the More Than Words Challenge Blog, this months challenge asks you to be inspired by the word "Origins" and to use your country's colours on the layout.  Canada's colours are red and white and you find a lot of that on my layout!

Wild Whisper's new collection "Canadian Winter" was just begging to be used for this challenge! This paper is all about our Canadian winters and Heather and Suzy have captured them perfectly!  Who, living here in Canada, doesn't have happy memories of hockey, skiing, frosty mornings and hot chocolate?  There's all that and more in the  Canadian Winter collection!

Let's talk about the origins of hockey...  the first game of organized ice hockey was played in Montreal in 1875.... thus Canadians lay claim to the game!  There are many who feel it's in our DNA.  During the long, cold Canadian winters it's not very hard to find a frozen pond, a stick, and a puck... many happy hours are enjoyed outside.

At 3 years old, my grandson couldn't wait to get playing.  He'd been dragging around a plastic stick from the time he could walk so he was more than ready!  He's following in the footsteps of his Great-Grandfather, his Grandpa, and his dad.  They all played and loved the game.  

The recipe for this layout is pretty simple:

1 Canadian Winter paper collection                                                                                              1 Canadian Winter pkg of ephemera                                                                                        1 Canadian Winter card pack                                                                                                  1 Canadian Winter pkg of Flair buttons                                                                                        Barn Door Distress Ink for inking edges                                                                                        Glue and a journalling pen

I like to use the card pack as mats for behind my photo and as a background on my layout.

This is the mat I used behind the photo.

Add a little Barn Door ink around the edges and the photo's good to go.

The next thing I do is layout the rest of the background mats and then glue them down.

I always take a photo of how I want to lay out the embellishments... because I find I forget once I start moving things around to glue them down! 

I used this month's sketch at Creative Scrapbooker Magazine to arrange the embellishments.

Here's a close up of some of the wonderful ephemera the Wild Whisper team creates.  Heather and Suzy nailed it with the quote "We have fire in our hearts and ice in our veins."  So fun!

Another happy memory is ready to go into the photo album.

Check out More Than Word's Challenges.  I am enjoying visiting everyone's blogs and learning about all the different countries.  

Thanks for stopping by today!