More than just a Hobby

Hello,

This layout was submitted at The Color Rooms http://www.thecolorrooms.com/tcr-blog.html

for their Sketch/Palette Challenge #140.

I just had to check out the color palette for this week and was so taken by the colors that I just had to try this.  I loved the colors, even though I was a bit concerned about how the red and orange 

looked together... not a normal pairing that I would do!  But split up with the orange and lime green, it looked pretty sharp!

Here's the color palette and sketch:

I love this sketch!!

This is what I came up with.  It's a rather simple layout... and plain, but I still love the colors.

I thought of making the layout more interesting, but ended up with this, which is ok.  I like how

it turned out.

I love to cross-stitch and even though I don't do much of it these days, the walls in my house have

various themes and series hanging throughout.  I keep telling myself that I should pick this up again, but

then the reality of not seeing things as well as I used to, hinders me.  Oh, I have a good light

and my trusty readers... oh well.... someday.

Because this is such a "simple" layout I distressed all the paper edges for a little

definition and added a charm, stitching and a rub on.

Supplies used:

Paper: DCWV, Colorbok

Distressing

Ribbons

Rub on: Stampin' Up!

Embroidery Floss: Making Memories

Sharpie Marker

Title Die Cut: K&Co.

Pop Dots

I used pop dots under the title die cut.  Stitches were added to add to the cross-stitching

theme.

 

To the arrow I added a charm that says, "Made with love."

 

It looked like the sketch used some sort of tape on the page and I used ribbons.

 

Here's a better look at the distressed edges and stitching.

I also used pop dots under the top banner.

 

The circle looked so plan so I added a rub on.

Thanks for stopping by!

Libby  :)