Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Scrap Shotz Project 12 of 2012

Welcome! Welcome! Welcome to Scrap Shotz's version of Project 12...in 2012! It has a nice ring to it; doesn't it??? :-)

Throughout the year, I'll post sketches or inspiration for you to create a project. Using the sketch or inspiration, you may create a layout or an altered item or a card or a mini album or...or...whatever your heart desires. As you can see, Project 12 at Scrap Shotz is wide open; we just want to inspire you to create.

The fine print:  I'll post the sketch or inspiration the 2nd Tuesday of each month - so you will have one month to create and link your project to me. I will make a draw for a prize and announce the winner when I post the next sketch or inspiration.

For the month of January, I chose a sketch from Valerie Salmon of Got Sketch? This sketch is very versatile as you may scrap either 1 photo or up to 8 photos! This sketch is also easily adaptable to a 2-pager by creating a mirror image for the 2nd page.


Here is my interpretation featuring the December Scrap Shotz monthly kit. Notice I created a mirror image of the sketch, used circles instead of squares and changed up the journaling.


Supplies:  Bazzill (cardstock); Simple Stories (pattern paper, die cut stickers, alphas, mini alphas); May Arts (twine); Close to my Heart (red gems): Versamagic (chalk ink); Copic (black spica)

Here are a couple of close-ups of the layout and how I made the sketch and kit my own.


Personally I like a lot of texture and dimension on my layouts. This can be easily created using pop-dots to raise some elements. Another technique is to "decorate" the die cut stickers.


I also used my Copic spica pen to add a "frame" around the layout. The wonderful trait of the Spica pen is its subtle glitter of the ink - it was perfect for my Christmassy layout!

Let's see your Project 12 of 2012!!!

I hope you will join me each month for Scrap Shotz's Project 12 of 2012! Please post your Project 12 layout in the comments section to be eligible for a blog prize! 

7 comments:

Rosie said...

Love your layout! Looking forward to working with this sketch :)

Jamie V said...

Your layout is gorgeous V!!! What a fun sketch!! Can't wait to play.

Ruby said...

Beautiful layout. Great take on the sketch.

Ruby said...

Here is the layout that I did for the sketch. One down and 11 to go. I have posted it in my gallery.
http://gallery.scrapshotz.com/photopost/data/500/medium/IMG_7426.JPG

Rosie said...

Got it done! It's right HERE

serena said...

got the layout done just need to pick up the photos from costco tomorrow and stick them down. Will post tomorrow evening. Hopefully I am still in time!!

serena said...

got it done! I am super excited to do this project 12 of 2012. I think it will work into my schedule a whole lot easier than project 365!
here is my link
http://gallery.scrapshotz.com/photopost/data/500/medium/IMG_9688_january_2012.jpg