Might as well jump!

April 26, 2012

Might as well jump!

We're getting close to being finished with the Sketchbook class I've been taking this month at Studio Calico... and it's been lots of fun! Tonight I tackled sketch #11 (although I still need to go back and do #9) and I went back to Spain for this one.

For some reason we had this thing about doing jumping photos. I'm really not sure how it all got started, but we did quite a few of them - especially in Spain. This one was on a Sunday evening after we got back from a day-trip to Segovia.

We did several different takes to make sure we got a good photo. Lots of faces and a little smoldering were a part of this. I personally quite like my Dr. Evil jumping face in the bottom two. And then there's Chad... using his skills as a former cheerleader. (Whatever. Show off.) Personally I'm just excited that there's visual proof that I got off the ground. lol.

For the layout, I used my Studio Calico April kit and add-ons, along with their new Plano stamp (the circle in the corner above). I also took a challenge from chapter 1 of my Sassy Scrapping workshop to use great big letters for the title and minimize the rest of the embellishments. Shannon hand cut hers from lots of different patterns, but I decided to use some old Quickutz dies to make it a bit more my style. And really, why not use Van Halen lyrics for the title? I'm digging it.

One thing I've noticed is that I'm really doing a lot more stamping on my layouts since I took Jen's Scrapbook Stamping workshop. I'm still playing with that one a bit here and there as I go back to the handouts and incorporate more ideas, but it's already paid off with how much I'm using my stamps now. And that's awesome.