It's the Weekend! (OUAS)

Whoosh!  In my family, weekends are filled with energy and activity, and they sure fly by fast!  I wanted to capture that feeling in my layout for this month's Once upon a...Sketch challenge, since the theme for March is "weekends."

Supplies: cardstock by Bazzill; stamps by My Mind's Eye; ink by Hero Arts; paint by Deco Art; doilies by Royal Consumer Products; photo-editing software by digiKam.

This is the sketch for March...

...and I rotated it ninety degrees to suit my landscape-orientation photo, like so:

I started with my photo, an action shot of my son in his kung fu class.  Words are an important component of any OUAS layout, and this time I placed my title and journaling directly on my photo, so that they wouldn't get lost in the busy-ness of the page.

I wanted all the embellishment that I added to the page to reflect the idea of movement and energy.  I achieved a lot of this through different stamping techniques.

Seeing double is a sure sign that things are moving fast!  I double-stamped the rocket ships in green and black ink.

I layered stamped images in black and green ink.

And then I layered some more stamped images, for an even greater sense of movement.

I dragged the chevron stamp around the edges of the page to create a border.

I also used the string painting technique to add energetic swirls of sparkly green paint to my layout.

Finally, I layered some green doilies behind the photo of my son.    Their metallic, reflective surface adds oomph to the page.

This layout is a bit different from my usual style, but I think it perfectly reflects the atmosphere of weekends in the Price family.

Speaking of weekends, I hope that yours is off to a good start.  Thanks for stopping by my blog today!