Playing Around with Sketch Saturday

This week at Sketch Saturday  , they are playing with this fun sketch and I wanted to join in as well. 

My card started as just an experiment, I had bought this retired two step stamp set which is a retired set from Stampin' Up a while back and never inked it. I taped off the front of my card base to keep the back clean and started stamping....I love these big beautiful flowers. I then stamped the stem which is also part of the same set. After seeing this week's sketch, it was fate, a simple matter of putting this card together. 

Be sure and give Sketch Saturday a visit and see how their DT interpreted the sketch and then give it a go yourself, there is still over a day before the challenge ends. Thanks for the visit.

Digital Flowers and Pencils

I am joining in again this week at Sketch Saturday  , I am enjoying their sketches as it gives me a jumping off point for my cards, do you love sketches as well?

The image is digital and from Power Poppy, have you shopped there? They have digital images but if you love stamps....they have those as well. Something for everyone.

As you can see, I used just a small part of this lovely image...I have another card to post soon, using more of the image and different colors. My coloring was done using Prismacolor colored pencils. I am also entering this at Power-Spark Pencil me in Challenge at the Power Poppy blog where June's challenge is to use a different coloring medium-pencils.

I created a 5 x 7 card today, not my usual size but thought it gave me a larger canvas for my flowers.

I started with Recollections 120lb white card stock, layering GinaK Designs chocolate card stock and a piece of design paper. I pulled the melon card stock from my scraps and used the Scor pal to make my scored background for the sheer ribbon and bow.

Thanks for the visit, hope you will stop by both blogs and the store, I know, I am enabler.

Have a great day.

A Sympathy Card for Sketch Saturday...

Hello all, how was your weekend? Very hot and muggy here in Virginia. I spent some of mine outside enjoying the day and part of it in my stamp room creating this card. 

I used a retired SU set "Early Spring" , don't you love the brush stroke style of this? Copics were my medium with a background created using distress ink and a stencil. I love the soft fade I got with this one. A Spellbinders nobel rectangle die gave it the lovely frame. A snip of ribbon, a sentiment and gem and we can call this card front done.

My inspiration came from this week's challenge at Sketch Saturday with Sketch #365.

Be sure to stop for a visit to see what the team has designed and play along if you have time.

You can see I added a piece of matching design paper with a punched edge to the inside.

Thanks for the visit, it is so good to be back blogging and sharing my cards....have a great week.

With Sympathy....

I am trying to fill in the blanks in my card categories and needed

some of the dreaded sympathy cards, so neccesary

but the ones we hate to send out.

After stamping the poppy on the same mustard card stock that I used

for my second layer, I colored it with Spectrum Noir markers,

adding Want2Scrap gems for the center. I stamped 

the image on ivory with Versafine Vintage Sepia and 

after fussy cutting the colored flower, I used foam

dots to layer it over the image on the ivory die cut.

The butterfly is a die from Heartfelt Creations, I cut

another piece of the mustard card stock as well as

a dictionary page at the same time, using Rusty

Hinge distress ink to add some depth. 

I used sketch #301 from Sketch Saturday  as my inspiration.

I am also entering this at Twisted Tuesday Challenges

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Don't go near the edge - the twist, use old book,

dictionary or script paper on your project.

I love how quickly this came together and may have to give this

design another go with different stamps.

Thanks for stopping by for a visit.

Happy Day!