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First Day of School

Today's layout was inspired by @christys_beautiful_life 30 Days of Sketches Round 8, Day 3.  I decided to focus the layout on a photo of this year's first day of school.


The layout has several sketched circles.  I decided to break out the sewing machine and sew a few black circles using a variety of stitches.  



The Scraptember challenge combined with this sketch was layering. So I grabbed the Simple Stories Smarty Pants collection and layered up a bunch of the branding strips and the patterned papers found on the journaling cards.


I used the letter stickers from the collection to create the title.  I also used some of the stickers to embellish the title and photo, and also to create an embellishment cluster in the upper right corner of the layout.  To finish off the layout, I splattered it with black ink.


I love the 30 Days of Sketches because it is a great way to use up older collections and challenges me to utilize techniques that I don't often use in my layouts.

First Day of School
Supplies:
  • 12x12 White Cardstock
  • Black Thread
  • Simple Stories Smarty Pants Collection
  • Ranger Dylusions Ink Spray - Black Marble
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