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So everyone knows that I love sketches by this point. Em's sketches, Becky Fleck's sketches, BH&G sketches...just love 'em! Well when we were at CHA last year, Autumn Leaves had a display copy of Designing With Recipes that you could leaf through in the booth, and we were all so impressed with the layouts and the concept. The book is divided up into sections for One, Two, Three, Four, Five or Multi photo layouts. Each page has a sketch, and incredible layout that uses the sketch, and then if you totally and completely want to make a layout just like it, it has complete step-by-step instructions of how to do it! So cool!
I sat with it last night with a pad of sticky notes in hand, and have so many “recipes” I want to try! I put together this one based on Lisa Russo’s sketch on page 25. I love “round” layouts and hadn’t done one for a while, so this gave me a great excuse! The papers are from the new Cloud 9 collection “Be Loved”. Love the glazed and glittered papers – so pretty! I changed up the sketch a bit, but the basic "bones" are there and I love the way it came out.
Anyhoo, back to the book - all my favorite "Designing With" artists are included - Cathy B, Emily, Jen, Kelli, Leslie, Lisa, Margie, Mellette, Robyn and Tia. Just an amazing book, and very, very well done! The book itself is a great design - it is spiral bound with a cover that wraps around the spiral, so it will lay flat on your scrapbooking table for reference when you are using the sketches (and believe me, you will want to be using them!) The example pages use all different papers and embellishments - eye candy galore!
Pat has it in stock at Peek right now, and I know you won’t be disappointed!
oohh...i really got to go find a copy of this IRL to take a glance at!
Posted by: melita | January 29, 2008 at 06:57 PM
this layout is BEAUTIFUL!~
Posted by: cheryl mezzetti | January 29, 2008 at 09:44 PM