Show Your Tail Feathers || Wednesday Sketch

Good morning, friends!  Happy Wednesday, aka: Sketch Day!  Kat popping in to share with you!

Today's sketch was made by the awesome Sarah Kee:

I really like that the sketch leaves a lot of room for adapting to your own style.  Do you want to use patterned paper?  Mixed Media?  Stamping?  How about all three?  I actually attempted to do all three, although my mixed media game has never been incredibly strong.

I knew I wanted to document some recent photos of my daughter stalking peacocks at a ranch we visited recently.  The photos are not that great, but the story is so I wanted to get it down.  I also FINALLY got to use the awesome "Birds of a Feather" paper from Pebbles (Jen Hadfield's Reaching Out collection) that I have been hoarding for a year (and it's still in the store)!  When I bought the paper last year, I had no clue what I was going to use it on, but I knew I loved it.  I had accepted that it was just going to be one of those papers that I will still have 10 years from now lol.  Here's what I whipped up:

I began by stamping my background with some Ink Blot Shop stamps and then splattering around some different colors.  I then decided to mount my photos on the peacock paper.  I put the photos down rather haphazardly, as my layout was leaning towards the "messier" side.  I departed from the sketch a bit by adding in a large title and a rip at the bottom so I could show off more peacocks.  Also, in case you're wondering, my title is exactly what my daughter kept yelling at the peacocks :)

I hope you can play along with us!  And don't forget - each team member has a code that will save you 20% off your store purchase.  My code is KAT20.