Zoo Fun Day | September Sketch Challenge

Hi everyone! It's Robbie today to share my take on the cute 2 page sketch. I'm another one who doesn't do many 2 page layouts anymore. I find that I don't have enough photos of most things to support 2 pages. What I do love about 2 page layouts is that there is more opportunity to share the story of the photos. On my layout, I used 5 photos instead of 7 photos, but even without journaling, you can clearly see what was going on in this trip to the zoo.

By now, you know that I like the little details that make up a page. The linear look of the sketch left me lots of space to add my own touches. Simple punched border strips added a bit of flair around the basic squares and bordered the set of photos without taking away from them.

I also added some long stitches along the edges. To make sure that my larger pictures really popped, I raised them up with some cardboard glued to the back.

In the sketch photo, there were both larger and smaller flowers. For my layout, I felt that the larger flowers that I tried were taking away from my photos and throwing off the balance of my layout. I chose to use all small flowers to accent my layout and leave the focus where it should be, on the photos.

For the title work, I mixed both alphabet letters and a sticker. I love to mix up different elements and the 3 Birds Stickers give so many options! The other thing that I wanted to try to show with this close-up is the way I altered the height of the photos. As I said before, I raised the larger photos with cardboard. As my layout came together, I realized that I had all the height on the page at each end. Raising one of the smaller one's brought back the balance.

Thanks so much for taking a peek at my take on this month's sketch! Hope that you will share any pages your make with the sketch with us!
Robbie

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