The House Held Together Solely by Love and Sugar

The Cookbookin' blog posted what they call their September Sketch Challenge.  Cookbookin' is a company that specializes in scrapbooking supplies for family cookbooks, recipe cards and the like.  I've really never scrapped, but decided it would be a fun creative challenge, much akin to collage, which I had been getting into over the past couple of years.  I quickly realized, however, that with my camera broken I wouldn't be able to post my creation, so I decided to go digital and make a scrapbook design using Microsoft Publisher and "scraps" of scrapbooking paper designs that I could find online.  Cheating, yes.  And I will disqualify myself from their randomly drawn prize for both that and the fact that I'm related to one of the leadership team over at Cookbookin'.  That said, however, here's my beginner's attempt (too bad I haven't taken any graphic design classes):