Studio Calico

sunday sketch

Happy Sunday! We're back with two new sketches. The first is a card from Jen Jockisch's Neverland gallery - this tall skinny card has a simple graphic design. 

For the layout sketch, we have a classic grid design from Susan's Weinroth's gallery. 

This week, we asked SC user Stepahnie Bryan to make a project based on one of the sketches - she choose to take on Susan's design for her layout. 

Supplies used : SC Sundrifter 6x6 paper pad, SC Sundrifter Die Cut Cardstock Shapes, SC wood veneer stars, SC wood veneer heart, SC Front Row labels, Dear Lizzy 5th & Frolic Die Cut Shapes & Stickers, Dear Lizzy Lucky Charm sticker, Martha Stewart fabric flower, Ali Edwards Hello Heart Boxes, Zing Opaque White embossing powder, Watercolors, Sewing machine

Stephanie says : 

I am a grid girl so I loved loved loved this sketch.  As soon as I saw the sketch I knew exactly what picture of my daughter I wanted to use and the color combo I was going for.  The Studio Calico Sundrifter collection was perfect for the lightness of my photo.  I wanted to add some pops of yellow to the page so I cut down a piece of yellow star transparency I had in my stash and also painted (with watercolors) a piece of card stock I had embossed with a flower image.  I added the yellow ribbon at the end to soften it up a little.  I used my Silhouette to cut the title and the Ali Edwards "Love You" box and then added little embellishments here and there to finish my page.  Thank you so much SC for inviting me to play along.  This was an awesome challenge!

Stephanie's layout has a beautiful dreamy feel thanks to the soft colors and gorgeous photo - a perfect example that grid designs don't need to feel too graphic. Thanks for sharing your work with us, Stephanie! If you want to see more from Stephanie, stop by her SC gallery or her blog, or check her out on Instagram.

How will YOU use these sketches? Whether it's a layout, a card or something else, post it in the Studio Calico gallery and  link us up to your project by March 11th for a chance to win a $5 gift card to the Studio Calico shop. 

 

from layout to card

Hey guys, Gayatri here today.  What a great release this month! Love all the inspirations from the design team galleries. Amazing work from talented crafters

Today, I am sharing with you a card I made using a layout from one of our Scrapbook Creative Team Members as a jumping point for your card. I was going through all the layouts and in fact saved most of them on my computer. They all gave me ideas. But this layout by Sasha Farina is just awesome and caught my eye as soon as I saw it. It is Sasha's "do art" layout. Thank you Sasha!

I really love the sketch of this layout and I drew it out for you. Here is the sketch.

I have made the photo and the sentiment panels from the layout into one panel and shifted it to the left side of the sketch. I have not added any embellishments to the sketch because I like simple sketches. This also gives you the freedom to add embellishments where it suits your card. Here is my card using the sketch from the layout.

(Supplies : Woodbrooke Road Add On Kit and Wildberry Court Add On Kit for enamel dot)

I have used Woodrooke Road Add On kit to make my card. I opened the kit and spread it on my table. I wanted a very colorful card. The pockets jumped out to me. So I picked the pink pocket. I choose and cut out papers and embellishments to coordinate the pocket from the WoodBrooke Road add on kit. Since the papers and embellishments are colourful, the sentiment has to be bold. The black alpha stickers are perfect to create the sentiment. The red enamel dot is from Wildberry Court Add On Kit.  I really love the bright colours on my card.

Hope you enjoyed my process of using a layout to make a card. If you create a project using this as your inspiration, please upload into the Studio Calico Gallery. I really love to see how you interpret a layout or even my sketch from Sasha's layout.

Happy New Year everybody! Hugs! -Gayatri

november card sketches

Since our Sunday Sketch typically features layout inspiration, we thought you might like some scaled down sketches! Each of these card sketches comes from our Sock Hop gallery.

(sketch based on Stephanie Dagan's You're Invited cards)

(sketch based on Maile Belles' Find Joy card)

(sketch based on Maggie Holmes' Thank You card)

We'd love to see YOU use these sketches! For a chance at a $5 Studio Calico gift certificate, use any of these sketches as a jumping off point for a card and post it to the Studio Calico gallery. Then come back here and link us to your card in the comments! The November sketch challenge is open through December 3rd.