you & me for SC Sunday Sketch

I found myself in rare circumstance yesterday morning:  Home Alone.

Ellie was off of school for a teacher workday, so my parents took the girls Monday night and were going to keep them Tuesday.  That allowed Andrew and I to go on a date, and sleep in a little.  Mother Nature was on my side as by the time I woke up, work was cancelled for me, and the girls were still out at my parents.  I called them to tell them to go ahead and bring them back before the snow got too bad, and then decided to try and get a layout done.


This might be the fastest layout I have ever done.  That's partly because I already had a plan.  As soon as I saw the Sunday sketch at SC this week, I knew which photo I wanted to use.



This is one of the professional photos taken from my little sister's wedding in July.  Carina loves to look at me with a deep stare and then bring her forehead to touch mine.  It's like a little kiss, always in the moment, and something that I never would have been able to photograph on my own, so I am grateful that the photographer was able to capture it.

I stayed very true to the sketch, kind of mentally assigned sizes to the different boxes based on the bottom right hand one, which I decided would be 4" x 3".

The hardest part of the layout was picking out the papers.  I pulled out several different collections to get the right fit, and was trying to create balance by using visual triangles with the main colors.

No embellishments on this one, just pretty papers and a sweet photo.  To get the heart just right, I put a piece of scrap vellum over the photo and sketched the heart, erasing and adjusting until I was happy with it.  Then I layered my good piece of vellum over that heart, traced it and cut it out.



I always have issues with how vellum is adhered. I didn't want it to sit flat here, I wanted some movement so I just stitched it on at the top.

The sentiment was cut with my silhouette portrait.

Thanks for coming by!  Hope that you are having a wonderful week!

Supplies Used
Paper/Cardstock:  Basic Grey - RSVP collection (used both 6x6 and 12x12 papers); Pink Paislee - Portfolio 6x6 papers; Little Yellow Bicycle - Poppy 6x6 papers; GCD Studio - Special Delivery Collection; October Afternoon - Travel Girl 8x8 pad; CTMH - White Daisy and Slate Cardstock; Recollections - Vellum
Other:  Silhouette Portrait and LD Mosquito font; Tombow - Mono and Multi Mono adhesives; AC - 05 Black Journaling Pen; Sewing Machine