A Go-to Stretch!

Morning, friends! Today my fellow Go-to-Gals and I are playing a little game for Go-to Sketches Week... partaking in a little challenge, so to speak. The name of the game is... Stretch the Sketch! Cath is featuring a sketch and some projects from the super fly, super sweet Kim Hughes today over at Moxie Fab World. She's showing some of the endless ways that you can Stretch a Sketch, so to speak, so we're doing the same thing today! Here's the sketch from Kim that all 6 Gals started with: And, can I just say, isn't it so darned cute? Not just the layout, but the sketch itself... how it's hand-drawn. Yeah... Kim Hughes so did that all by herself! With her own two little hands and a sharpie. In fact, Kim drew up all of our sketches for the book! {Good thing, because there's no two ways around it... mine were pitiful. Pit. I. Ful.} We loved the look of them so much that the 6 of us practically held the editors for ransom until they agreed to use them in the book. {Not really... I think they were already on to the brilliance of that idea, but I like to think we had mad ransom skills.} That Kim... she amazes me. Anyhow, so we each took the sketch and did something different with it. I decided to flip it upside down because that is the first option I look at when thinking about turning a sketch.

Now, I realize that this is the second day in a row of me doing a somewhat shabby card.

{Or at least two cards that somewhat lean that way.} I know, I know... I have no idea what's up with me. I must have a fever. All I know is that when I saw the scallops on the sketch, I thought of this vintage lace hanging out in my ribbon drawer. And since my craft space is in a complete upheaval due to our move and some new storage that's in the works, access to my supplies is limited and pretty darned ineffective at the moment, to say the least. So when I thought that the lace would work, and lo and behold it was in a drawer that I could just turn around and open, well, then, that made it a winner in my book! {And that is the truth of how the design process works in the Witty house, people.}

Funny... I feel like this sketch totally works flipped upside down! I love that the sentiment is on the left instead of on the right where I put it 99% of the time. That makes it feel really different for me and just a small change like that makes me totally excited about it! Do you turn your sketches to see if you like them more one way or another? Even if it seems like it might be a stretch (get it? ha!) at first, it's sort of a safe risk to me. You still have the sketch to follow, so even if the layout is totally unusual for you, there's nothing to worry about because you are still following along with with the sketch. Super duper easy. All of the other Go-to-Gals are bringing you something different with this sketch as well! Check it... Betsy Veldman

Kim Kesti

Kim Hughes

Maren Benedict

Teri Anderson And Cath is heading it all up over at Moxie Fab World. Cause she's the Moxie Queen. Cath's giving away 3 copies of Go-to Sketches and every comment on any of today's posts (on any of the blogs above and this one!) will be entered to win. Just be sure to comment by Sunday night at midnight (EST) for your chances to have a copy sent straight to your door, ok? {That would be you, passing up the line at Barnes & Noble. Sweet.} Thanks, again, friends.

I'm so enjoying getting to share all of this Go-to goodness with you guys and hearing your take on it!