Project 12 - January Reveal & March Sketch

Hi there!  It’s the March edition of the Project 12 challenge, which means it is time to reveal the winner for the previous challenge, and organize those photos for the next sketch.

I can tell you I have been completely blown away by the wonderful talent participating this year, and am so glad to see so many people inspired by this challenge.  I hope it has helped light a creative fire as well as aiding you in organizing your photos and your scrapbooks.

In case you needed a reminder, here is the January sketch:

And this is what I came up with this month:

I loved Becky’s sketch so much I went out and purchased a large snowflake punch!

I could have gone with pink because of the common colors in all of my photos, but decided to do a wintery color of blue/green to go with January and the snowflakes.

I mixed a couple of different date elements for my title.

Because I was using my everyday photos, a couple of them weren’t ideal for the size indicated in the sketch.  In particular I mean my gymnastics photos.  So I switched sizes with the photo next to them and reduced their size a little bit.   I love how it turned out.

I really liked having the sketch in advance because it helped plan out my photos for the month.  My eldest daughter Morgan turned 6 in January, which is a big deal at our house, so I knew a birthday photo would make it’s place in the vertical 5x7 spot.  When picture time came, I knew what I needed to capture.  That was nice, without controlling the photos I took that month.

We made it really easy this year for anyone to participate in this challenge.  You didn’t need a blog or a scrapbook gallery to play along. 

See the Facebook gallery for submissions here.

I did take some time to go through the submissions linked in the previous Project 12 post, and wanted to share a couple of ideas other participants had.

Erin made her very first 2 page layout for this challenge!  Hooray for trying something new!  I love her punches of red in the design and the layered scalloped ribbon:

http://www.studiocalico.com/forums/galleries/show/20160

I love the black polka dot background on Heather’s layout.  The whole color palette is delicious and I love the use of stars in place of the snowflakes:

http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/gallery/member/148162-heatherm/1597014-jan-10/?c=t

In the design of the sketches for this year long challenge, one of the focuses to make these layouts identifiable over the rest of your scrapbook pages was a border around the edges.  You’ll notice that theme with all the sketches this year.

I really like what Maya did with border punches to the inside edges of her layout.  She’s created a really fun frame.

http://mayadahan.blogspot.com/2010/02/project-12-january.html

Remember, you don’t have to use the sketch and you don’t have to do a 2 page layout to participate in this challenge.  Just capture your month.

We’ve seen the February sketch for the current month, but here’s a peek at what’s in store for March:

Love it!  Love the flower.  My husband Steve and youngest daughter Payton both have birthdays in March.  Looks like I have some planning to do. 

As a reminder, here are the details. 
1.  Your February layouts need to be linked to this thread.  For a second chance to win, also link them to the March 1 post at http://davinie.blogspot.com. 
2. You have until March 20 to link your February layouts.  
3. If you would like to be included in our monthly Facebook album, email your completed layout to [email protected] and they will be uploaded to the Facebook gallery, which will count as your entry.
4. On March 27, the two winners will be announced, and the April sketch will be revealed.

Want to know what you are playing for?  How about a prize pack from the Barnyard Collection from Doodlebug?  Sound good?

I’m so happy you are playing along!

So, without further ado, here are the two winners:

Julie is the winner from my blog!

http://julieslife-lexea.blogspot.com/2010/02/january-layout-for-project-12.html

And the second winner is:  Vicky P.

Congratulations!  You both won the Homefront and Anthology Collections from Studio Calico!  A very fun prize indeed!

See you in a couple of weeks! 

Davinie

Comments

[Erica Hettwer]

Congratulations, ladies! Great layouts! :D

[Ann]

Congrats to the winners and thanks for the link to the facebook gallery. It is so nice to see what everyone else did for this challenge and be able to leave some admiration!

[Andrea]

Wow! Great work ladies! LOVE the March sketch!

[Laurie]

Congratulations ladies... love your layouts...love all the layouts...
I love March Sketch.. can't wait.. have my photos already mapped out in my head as to what I will be taking for this layout..
Laurie

[Andi Sexton]

Yeah to the winners! It's so fun to see the different styles and takes on the sketch! LOVE this challenge!

[Lynne]

Congrats to the winners!! And thanks so much for doing this! I am having so much fun with it!

[Stacy]

Congrats ladies. Great LOs and cannot wait to get to the March sketch!!! How fun!

[Nathalie]

Congratulations to the winners! Many gorgeous pages! I didn't have time to play along in time for January but I want to for this month. I love the idea of a monthly recap page. I've been doing (well, trying to LOL) do this since January 2009. Thanks for the awesome sketches. :)

[Heather M.]

Congrats to the winners! I love this idea so much and am enjoying playing along. You made my day seeing my layout up there. :) :) :) Thank you! I can't believe February is almost over. I better get my photos picked and start working on my layout. :)

[Erin B]

thanks for featuring my page. I was a bit nervous about that hug 12x12 2 pager to fill. Congrats to the prize winners!

[Vicky]

Thanks for all the well wishes, I'm so very excited to win - I can't even believe I won, there's sooo many wonderful pages in the gallery!

Wishing everyone good luck for the next round,
Vicky

[Katie Skiff]

Awesome job! I am anxious to get to this one!!

[Tammy Bingeman]

Congrats to the winners! Love the layouts and am loving doing this challenge!

[Shirley Fread]

Congrats to the winners. Love the layouts.

[Glynis]

Great Layouts! Congrats to those who won. I was hoping to play along in Jan but couldn't seem to find the time so now I'm playing catchup. Hoping I can get Febs sketch done in time :O)

[Fleckster]

Kudos to the winners and to everyone who participated. Such great pages!!

Becky @ PageMaps

[Julie D]

I am sooo excited! I had so much fun with this one!!! Looking forward to continuing with the next months too!

[Ashley Stephens]

Here's mine for Feb!
http://static.studiocalico.com/images/forum_galleries/0010/2128/feb.jpg?1267829416

[Anne Pennington]

Here is the link to my February Project 12 layout. This is fun, thanks for beginning this initiative.

http://raggedyannie1.wordpress.com/2010/02/25/february-project-12/

[Gabriela]

Here is the link to my February layout! Thanks for this fun project!
http://scrapabookaholic.blogspot.com/2010/03/project12-feb.html

[Andi Sexton]

Help!!!! I am needing some technical assistance on the best way to convert the digiphotos of your 2page layout, to one file for uploading! Any ideas on how to
1. Photo your 2 pages (I use 2 photos)
2. Merge them in Pse6 to get 1 image
3. Then the best way, to go from that pse6 file to a final 'perfect size' jpg for uploading? (What is the best file size, etc.).. I saved mine as a 6x4 but not sure what the heck I am doing!!!

My Jan. one was fine.. But for some reason Feb. is grainy and not looking good when it's enlarged!

TIA!
Andi

[Merrick]

I'm having fun with this! Here's a link to my February challenge (and the post before it is my Jan... which I didn't finish in time)
http://elfpaper.blogspot.com/2010/03/project-12-february.html

[Jennifer.T]

Here's my February layout:

http://www.studiocalico.com/forums/galleries/show/21273

[ShellyJ]

Here's my February :)
http://www.studiocalico.com/forums/galleries/show/21290

[Audrey Yeager]

Here is my February LO! Loving this Project 12 so much!!

http://audreysreflection.blogspot.com/2010/03/february-2010-project-12.html