'Bout Time!

Yes, yes... I know!  It's about time I put up a new post!  While my mind is always dreaming up new layouts for my scrapbooking endeavors, unfortunately Father Time doesn't always cooperate!  The one thing I have found by creating this blog and branching out into creating sketches is that following a sketch, saves a ton of time!  If I plan out what I am going to do, before I sit down with my heaps of paper, boxes of embellishments, rolls of ribbons and everything other thing that finds its way into my scrapbooking doman as some piece of inspiration, I find I am more focused on the task at hand.

To that end, I have created another sketch.  It is relatively simple, but oh! the things you can do with simplicity!

Getting Sketchy

Recently I played with MS Publisher and decided to try my hand at a computer generated sketch.  It's been a while since I created a sketch, which I usually do by hand, first in pencil, then I trace with a sharpie when I like it.  Working on Publisher was pretty good and saved a lot of erasing.   I used basic shapes and filled them with textures to mimic paper designs.  I searched clipart for flourishes and that was a bit more challenging, but when I found what I liked, I changed the color to black and white for the sketch.  Following is the resulting sketch, Sketch #3.