Think Big

This is a single page layout I did last week. I belong to a Yahoo group, MegaScrapHappy. It's a great group of ladies who share their love for scrappin'. It is a great place for inspiration, challenges and help. Each month a different member offers to host a montly challenge.... it can be just about anything, just so that each day there is a new challenge presented. This month it is all about sketches, which I love.

This layout is based on a sketch from Inspired Blueprints, a sketch site that is new to me but one that I will definitely return to. This was the sketch...

Usually I find that I am not very original. If I have a recipe, I tend to follow it pretty closely. The same goes for sketches. If a sketch is laid out in a particular way that is usually the way that I will do it. Part of this challenge posted with this layout was to alter the sketch... a little or a lot. I really didn't think I would be doing too much altering. But once I decided on the pics I would be using, I already had to alter it since I was going with vertical. Then one thing led to another and my finished page was quite a bit altered from the sketch. Sometimes scrappin' just happens that way... I think I have a layout all figured out and boom! What I end up with is completely different. Here is my interpretation of this sketch...


The journaling reads... Look at the expressions on your face. I can't help but wonder what big thoughts are going thru your head. Think BIG... Dream BIG!! Summer '96

These pictures of Kaitlyn were originally put aside to do a Cheerios layout. But when I pulled them out to use for this sketch, I couldn't help but focus on her expressions. She really looks like she is thinking on something big.