Hello there, my dear CK blog readers, Mou Saha here. I’m happy to be a guest blogger today.
What is your favorite technique that you repeat on your layouts again and again? Doodling is one such technique for me. I have doodled my titles, journaling, accents and more and got wonderful ideas to step up my doodling in Joannie McBride’s article ‘Doodling 2.0: Take Your Doodling from Beginner to Advanced’ in the February 2011 issue of Creating Keepsakes magazine. If you have seen this issue, you might have noticed the doodled article opener and various accents that Shelley Aldrich used in her layout, “Dad’s Ride”. Those same doodled accents and frame are available for you to download for free.
I downloaded and printed mine at 98% print size and cut them out.
I selected waterproof Indian ink brush markers to color in the doodled accents. Since I picked a photo from our day at the fair, I chose bright colors.
I created the base of my layout with layers of patterned papers and attached my photo. I layered my colored frame over the photo. Next, I added the title with stickers and colored it to match the colors of my frame. I journaled on the colored journaling block and attached it below the framed photo toward the left, slightly overlapping it. I attached the colored page border at an angle above the photo to look like a colorful banner. I colored the photo corners next and attached them to the top left and bottom right corners of the page. I machine stitched in places to finish the layout.
Supplies: Patterned papers and alpha stickers: Basic Grey; Pen and brush markers: Faber-Castell DMC; Corner rounder and decorative scissors: Fiskars Americas; Adhesive: Scotch 3M; Other: sewing machine
I hope you enjoyed the various ways I used the doodled accents in my layout and would give this a try. Leave a comment on this post letting us know how you use doodling on your layouts. Thanks and have a creative day!
Mou Saha, contributing writer
I love your doodles! I wish I was half as good at doodling!
Thank you so much for the freebie!
Doodling is my go-to technique. I think I doodle at least a little bit on every layout!
-Katie
Thanks for the layout application…this made the doodles something I could really see myself using
I’ve downloaded these and love them!!! I used mine about the ways you have…except using markers instead!!
Oh, for the love of cute! Mou, love it. And I love those doodled frames too!
Fabulous ideas Mou! I love your doodle detailing…. downloaded & stashed! ThanX
Thanks for sharing. I used to doodle a bunch when I was a child, now I’ll have to revisit it!
Oh wow! Been researching about digital printing for cards and such and this is by far the easiest site I have been to! Awesome stuff Mou! Will def give it a shot!
Tks!
lovely doodles…
This is really clever & I love the way you used it.
I love your doodled frames. Thank you for your delightful inspiration and creativity.
What a cute idea and makes everything so individual.
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Your ideas are wonderful and so is MAC. I only use MAC and find it frustrating not to be able to download. What is the possibility of changing your format to include MAC? I am sure that there are other MAC users that are would appreciate the free downloads.
Thank you for your consideration.