Monday, October 17, 2016

MY TWEEN

This is my latest project for The Memory Nest using the following sketch.  Typically, I look at a sketch and have a general idea of what I want to do.  This time around, I was clueless.  Triangles are not in my comfort zone.  I've been reading a book called I Am That Girl and recently finished a section about the need to move out of your comfort zone in order to push yourself into new territory.  I will say that this sketch certainly did that for me.  I played around with my Bella Boulevard papers for a few hours afraid to cut anything because I was so unsure of what to do.  I kept attempting to do what the sketch called for and it simply was not working for me as it was positioned.  So I deconstructed the sketch.  Rather than have four triangles all placed at the bottom, I decided to place the four triangles around the perimeter of my page.  By then I was having so much fun cutting triangles with my Cricut, I started placing extra triangles in the middle of the page to accent the picture.  And before I realized it, this project that had intimidated me for weeks was done. And honestly, I like how it turned out in the end.  In summary, a valuable lesson was learned on this project.  Sometimes the sketches that give you the hardest time become your favorites.

4 comments:

  1. I struggled with this sketch, too. I love how you tweaked it to suit your needs. The colors and papers are so fun!
    It's always great when something we struggle with turns out even better than hoped for.

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  2. I LOVE what you did---the mood of this page matches the photo-great work!!!

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  3. Fabulous! Love the edgy feel to your page, matches the mood of the photo perfectly.

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  4. I have troubles w/ triangles too! Great layout!

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