4x6 Photo Love Sketch Layout

Happy 4th of July! We are having a laid back day today, after shooting off most of our fireworks last night. So I'm taking a few minutes to do a quick layout share...

I'm a huge fan of Shimelle Laine at Shimelle.com. She's an incredible scrapbooking artist and Two Peas Garden Girl. She shares so much at her website each day, and I love to see her videos and tutorials.

One of the classes she led last year at Two Peas was 4x6 Photo Love. Each month, she shared a sketch featuring a 4x6 photo - and the number of photos corresponded to the number of the month. So, for November, it was 11 photos on a single layout. Pretty impressive. I loved the November sketch, and it was perfect for a stack of photos I had been wanting to scrap.

Yep, that's a little 3-photo sleeve in the middle.

And here's the back of that little photo sleeve...

I so love this design - genius from Shimelle. Using the 3-photo sleeve in the middle is the perfect way to add up to 6 more photos to a layout. I'm going to be using this technique again, I'm sure.

And here's how it looks without the extra sleeve...

Shimelle does a video to go with each sketch to show how she puts her layout together. I love that she shows you how to create great embellishment collages and gives you more ideas for how to finish off your layout together. She's the best...

Not sure how I didn't notice that Happy tag was off-kilter when I was taking this photo...oh well.

Thank you Shimelle for giving me the inspiration to get this layout put together...