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Today's layout was inspired by Day 1of @christys_beautiful_life 30 Days of Sketches Series 8.  Today's triangular sketch was created by Laura Whitaker.  The Scraptember challenge for this sketch was stitching.  


As soon as I saw the triangle on this layout, I knew I wanted to use a sailboat to document my daughter's new student orientation day at her college by the sea.  I used my Cricut machine to cut a large sailboat out of a piece of blue whitewashed cardstock.  After losing a time-consuming battle with my sewing machine, I was able to get some blue stitches around the edges of the sailboat.  I glued the sailboat to the blue star paper from Vicki Boutin's Color Study collection.  


I used the blue and white striped paper from the Color Study collection to create the large banner.  I inked the edges of the banner with Black Soot Distress ink.  I matte the banner with a small strip of the black script paper from the 6x8 paper pad from Vicki's collection.  I placed a slightly thicker strip of the white paper with blue overlapping circles behind the black paper on the top of the banner piece.  I used an overlapping circle border punch to create a black border that was placed along the bottom of the banner.  I placed the banner piece across the middle of the layout.  I added a small banner strip in the upper right of the layout.  I printed one 4x4 photo and two 4x3 photos and grouped these toward the left side of the main banner strip.


I wanted to stay within the nautical theme for this layout and not go overboard on the embellishments. To create the embellishment clusters, I used my Cricut machine to cut a helm and anchor from a piece of wood grain paper.  I used the offset feature within Cricut Design Space to cut a gray offset for the anchor and helm. I downloaded a free SVG file in order to cut the compass rose from wood grain, gray, and black script paper.  All these items were inked with Black Soot Distress ink and were popped up with foam tape.  I stamped some small word strips onto the whitewashed cardstock and placed these in each embellished area.  The title was die-cut using two different Tim Holtz Sizzix Thinlits alphabets.


 I love the triangular design of the sketch and enjoyed using the shape of the sailboat and nautical icons to create those triangles.

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Supplies
  • Vicki Boutin Color Study 12x12 and 6x8 Paper Pads
  • Core'dinations Whitewash Collection - Watering Can
  • Blue Thread
  • Cricut Explore
  • Recollections Farmhouse Paper Pad (Wood Grain Paper)
  • Tim Holtz Black Soot Distress Ink
  • Tim Holtz Thinlits Alphanumeric Shadow Upper
  • Tim Holtz Thinlits Alphanumeric Tiny Type Upper
  • EK Success Tools Linked Circle Chain Large Edge Punch
  • Foam Tape
  • Recollections Clear Stamps - Tiny Words
  • Versafine Onyx Black Ink
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