Crazy for Sketches

Hello everyone, my name is Deanna Kroll, and I will be the blog host for this week, here at the Pebbles blog!

Have you noticed how much sketches seem to be everywhere to inspire scrapbookers and even card makers? I have been using sketches with my layouts for well over 4 years now, and most of the sketches I use, have been my own. I of course have also gotten inspiration in my work with other peoples sketches as well, like Becky Higgins, Becky Fleck (page maps), and from places like Got Sketch?, Sketch It, Pencils Lines, and so many more! One can draw so much inspiration from sketches, especially when you are having scrappers or card making block.

This week, I challenged members from the Pebbles design team to use a sketch that I made as their inspiration for the layouts that they made this week. Here is sketch that they were provided to use:


For my own layout, I kept my layout pretty close to what the original sketch was, and kept placement of everything pretty similar. I added a few elements in places that were not in the original sketch, but that is what makes this layout my own from the sketch.

What is great about sketches is that you are able to interpret them as you like and you can either stick with the sketch as it is, you can turn them around, or as the following two team members did - you can even change the size to what you would normally scrap.

As you see with the following layout, done by fellow design team member Celeste Smith, she made the layout into an 8.5 x 11 layout and kept the photo placement similar as well as some of the elements in the layout, however, she simplified it to her own style, and kept the layout true to her simple scrapping style."Nature Girl" by Celeste Smith

Another 8.5 x 11 layout interpretation was done by Mimi Leinbac, where you'll see she kept many of the same features that were from the original sketch.

"Blueberry Hill" by Mimi Leinbach

Lynn Ghahary's layout simplified the sketch but she also added simple little touches to the layout, like the button off to the side of her journal spot, and the heart embellishment added to the main photo. This is just a simply stunning layout!

"First Day" by Lynn Ghahary

Maureen Blanc made the sketch her own by replacing the two lower photos in the sketch with embellishments and also by simplifying the sketch to what would work for her her own unique style as well. This layout also adds some humor to it, as Maureen's title stands for "Baleen Whale" (and see where she has her Pebbles chipboard arrow pointing to....you just have to love her humor!).

"Baleine" by Maureen Blanc

I love the interpretation that Marielle LeBlanc did with this sketch. Her layout really shows how you can make a sketch into your own work! Beautifully done with this layout.

"Discovering" by Marielle LeBlanc

And finally, Suzanne Sergi made this adorable layout with her daughter and her pink bear. The way she interpreted the sketch is absolutely wonderful. I love the way she did her lower embellishments is wonderful and I love her dimension in this layout. She did a fantastic job with this sketch!

"Sweet and Cuddly" by Suzanne Sergi

I was so happy to see the layouts that the team created with this sketch, and I hope that you'll also play along with the challenge this week. If you do - link up your work to the comments section, I would love to see what you create!!!

See you all on Wednesday for some more inspiration!