Monday Sketch Challenge with Ursula + Julia

Hi Lily Bee fans! Today is the first day in our brand new blog schedule! Each day of the week will bring you inspiring projects to gain inspiration as well as two challenges each week! Participation in these challenges will enter you into two monthly prize pools for awesome Lily Bee products! All you have to do is upload your challenge into our Lily Bee Flickr pool fournd here (link also found on the right) to be considered for that month. Sketch Challenges and General Challenges are both eligible for prizes! We can't wait to see what you come up with!

Hola Lily Bee friends, from sunny Arizona.  It’s Ursula here today to bring you a fun and inspiring sketch.

Personally, I find I prefer as sketch that is relatively simple and allows me to build outward.  I tend to feel a little boxed in if there are lots and lots of details included in a sketch.  Somehow, I simply ‘have’ to follow the rules which means everything in the sketch has to also be on my layout.

  Since I don’t work well that way, I decided to create a fairly simple sketch to which lots of details could be added if the user so desires.

Take a look, take the challenge and show us how you’d interpret this sketch. As you can see, there is lots of room to breath on this page design.  However, feel free to fill it up if that is what will make your heart sing.

To give you a little jump start on the ideas, take a look at how I interpreted the sketch.

  I turned the design a bit and that added some additional detail that gives my page a more freeform feel than the original sketch might cause you to think of.

Lily Bee Supplies used:

Memorandum: Tiny Tablet, 12x12 Paper
Buttercup: Mixed Cardstock Stickers, Handmade Bag of Bits, Tiny Tablet, ABC Stickers
Double Dutch: Index Journal cards, 12x12 paper Celery
Victoria Park: 6x6 Tiny Tablet, 12x12 paper Grand Theater
Handmade: Mixed Cardstock Stickers
Christmas Cheer: 12x12 Patterned Paper

 Julia Stainton also joined me with her multi-photo take on the sketch.  I love how she used 2 photo strips to mimic the shape of the photo placed on the sketch but still making it her own.  She’s also turned the sketch and dropped the border strips down into the body of her project.

  And that butterfly cut-out is simply perfect.  I love the way she inked the edges to give a very distinctive line to the butterfly.

Lily Bee Supplies Used:

Buttercup: Collection Kit
Double Dutch: Clear Stamps, ABC Stickers

Now it’s your turn!  What will you create with today’s sketch?!

Here are the *new* rules to keep in mind:

1. Your layout must use at 70% Lily Bee products
2. Post your layout to our Flickr Gallery here to be eligible for two monthly prize drawings!
3. Be sure and title your post "Lily Bee July Sketch Challenge", so we can find it easily.
4. The deadline is Friday, July 27, 2012  at 9PM MST. Because we are starting late this month, winners will be posted in Kristen's August news post on August 24th. 
5. And of course, have fun!

Thanks so much for stopping by today and have a wonderful Monday!

Comments

[Patricia Roebuck]

Beautiful sketch and layouts!

[Andrea Garland Jiménez]

I have a question, this sketch challenge it has to be a layout? or I can make a card inspired with the sketch. If the challenge is only for layouts, the next one will be open for cards?

[Antenucci.blogspot.com]

Have you announced the June sketch challenge winner yet?

Love the July sketch - can't wait to pull some pictures and scrap!

[Julie Tucker-Wolek]

How exciting!! Loving the new things going on here at LB!!!! I love love love the sketch and the lo's!! Just gorgeous!!!!!

[Amy H]

To Andrea, Yes, of course you may also create cards using the sketch. Thank you for asking!! :)

[Ania]

Have done this sketch, but for various reasons I don't have access to flickr anymore (long story). I'd still like to join the challenge though :/

[Ania]

Ahwell. Took me a number of days but finally managed to get that old flickr-account reopened. Ha! :p

[Bottega Veneta Outlet]

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