Check out my Sketches!

Over at If It's Groovy, Groovy Deb has been featuring my sketches every Friday.  These are not your everyday sketches, people.  These sketches push you to develop a way of scrapbooking that brings your life and your emotions on to the pages.  I hope to develop some 2-page layouts, cook book layouts, faithbook layouts and make sketches from them.  Until then check out the past two sketches I've done at If It's Groovy.  I challenge you to submit your take on my sketches to the blog for us to enjoy!  This weeks sketch and last weeks.
Natalie

My Rendition of Sketch #41 at 52 Sketches 52 Weeks

This weeks sketch #41 at 52 Sketches...52Weeks can be seen here.  This is my take on their sketch.

I am still trying to break out of the mold a little.  Instead of doing a circle I did a flower under DDs picture.  I also did individual embellishments as a border along the top instead of a single scalloped border.  I did 5 lines of journaling instead of three.

I thought at first, and you might agree, that the colors would be too bold.  However, I think that they worked well as a focal vortex to focus your eye on the less busy part of the LO which is the picture of my DD.  The print on the paper in which the picture is on resembles the print on her shirt.  She loves butterflies and calls them "Yi-Yi's" with a long "i" sound.
This is my first entry over at 52S52W and I hope my work inspires some others as they inspire me.
I used K&Co paper, and embellishments from their "Berry Sweet" collection.