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I made a 8 1/2″ x 11″ scrapbook page this weekend so I could use the Weekend sketch as a layout.

The page base is a sheet of Chocolate Chip cardstock. Layered over it are a 4 1/2″ x 10 1/2″ piece of Brocade Background Designer paper and a 3 1/2″ x 10 1/2″ piece of Spring Silhouette Designer Paper. Chocolate Satin Ribbon was tied around the layers.

I layered my 5″  x 7″ photo first on a 1/2″ bigger piece of Chocolate Chip cardstock, then on a 6″ x 8″ piece of Always Artichoke. A dotted white gel pen border was added to the Chocolate layer and the Artichoke layer was paper pierced.

The two ovals were cut with the largest of the Nestabilities templates. Celebrate and good times are from the stamp set Celebrate Everything. They were stamped in Chocolate Chip on Whisper White cardstock. I paper pierced underneath celebrate and added journaling with my Artichoke marker around it.

I want to wish every Mother out there a Happy Mother’s Day! I hope your day is filled with lots of love, hugs and kisses!

This week’s color challenge was not that easy for me, it included LOVELY LILAC. I hadn’t done a challenge in so long, I thought I would just skip another. I don’t know what changed my mind. I just did it (like ripping of a bandaid).

I love the Pretty Petals background stamp. It is so pretty!

I inked it up with Certainly Celery, Pretty in Pink and Lovely Lilac Markers, sprayed it lightly with water and stamped it on a 3 1/2″ Whisper White cardstock square.

Three of the corners were punched with the ticket corner punch. It was layered on a 3/8″ bigger piece of Lovely Lilac cardstock and paper pierced. Next I added a double photo corner to the unpunched corner on the top right, that was topped with three black brads. I added sparkle over the flowers and butterflies with my Clear Spica Glitter pen. It adds very subtles sparkle, almost like the images you add the glitter to are on Shimmery White cardstock.

The sentiment is from Many Happy Returns. It is stamped in Black Stazon on Whisper White, punched out with the small oval punch and layered first on a 1″ lilac circle, then on a celery Designer Label punchout. I punched a hole with my Crop-A-Dile where the sentiment would be placed and ran Pink Taffeta Ribbon through it. The sentiment was attached with dimensionals.

The card base is a 4 1/4″ x 8 1/2″ piece of Certainly Celery cardstock folded in half and toped with a 4″ black square, that had three corners punched with the ticked corner to match the upper layers. Those were attached to the card base with dimensionals.

What stamp set do you use when you can’t decide on one? One of your favorites of course. After thinking a long time about what to put in the oval of today’s sketch challenge, I decided on my old faithful bird from Always.

The card base is a 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ piece of Chocolate Chip folded in half.

It’s layered first with a 4″ x 5 1/4″ piece of Old Olive cardstock, then  a 1/4″ smaller piece of Spring Silhouettes Designer paper.  Each corner of both layers was punched with the ticket corner punch.

The Chocolate Chip scallop rectangle is pieced together out of two rectangles cut with rectangle Nestabilites templates and layered with two pieces of Bali Breeze Designer Paper. Chocolate Chip Poly-Twill Ribbon was rapped around the designer paper piece layers. On the bottom right the sentiment from Always was stamped in Chocolate Chip. On the top right, three 1/4″ Chocolate Chip circles were topped with Old Olive brads.

Both the Shimmery White and the Purely Pomegranate oval layers were cut with Oval Nestabilities templates. I taped the Shimmery White layer on top of the scalloped Pomegranate one and paper pierced the edges. I inked up the bird from Always with Purely Pomegranate, rocked it’s edges in Chocolate Chip and just to make sure traced the edges with a Chocolate Chip Marker before stamping it on my Shimmery White layer. Felt Flowers from the Flower Fusion Tin finished with a Circle Ice Rhinestone brad topped that layer off. 

 Check here for a tutorial on how to paper pierce curves.

After making the card for Tuesday’s Be Inspired Challenge, I thought that layout was sweet enough to be a sketch challenge. So here it is as this weekend’s sketch challenge:

I had complaints about my sketches being too dark.

I am not sure if this is better. I hope you can all see it. This is how light the next 12 sketches or so will be. Let me know if you like that better. I personally like my dark ones better.

To participate in the challenge and be entered in the  raffle, make a card with this layout and upload it either to your blog, or to an online gallery.

 If you upload your card on SCS, put WSC47  (NO SPACE INBETWEEN WSC AND 47) in the keyword section. That way we can look at all of them at once!

Post a link to your card to this blog entry as a comment. Please add your entry# to it.

I will determine the winner  with Random.org on Monday at 11:00 a.m. CST

To see samples made with this sketch now, check out the blogs of

Cambria Turnbow

Charmaine Ikach

Jenn Balcer

Laurie Schmidlin 

Lori Craig

MaryJo Albright

Have fun creating! I can’t wait to see what you come up with.

SCS submissions

NOTE:
I deleted comments that don’t have a sketch entry. I am sorry about that, but otherwise it will totally throw the numbering off! I do appreciate your input about the color of the sketches though. Although it seems I won’t be able to please everyone. It’s a split between dark and light sketch lovers.

Here is another card I made with this week’s BIC color combo.

I pulled out another old favorite set that had been neglected for too long.

I stamped the girl from Summer By The Sea in Brown Palette ink on Very Vanilla cardstock and colored her in with Watercolor Crayons.

It was layered on a 3 1/4″ square Old Olive cardstock and a 3 5/8″ square of sponged and distressed Chocolate Chip cardstock.

The sentiment is from One Smart Cookie and is stamped in Brown Palette ink on Very Vanilla cardstock and punched out with the small oval punch. It was layered on a 1″ sponged Pumpkin Pie circle and sponged Chocolate Chip Designer label punchout. I adhered the sentiment layers to the top right after adding a Antique Brass Hodgepodge Hardware piece with Olive Poly-Twill Ribbon.

The card base is a 4 1/4″ x 8 1/2″ piece of Ruby Red cardstock, folded in half. The card front was stamped with the swirl stamp from Baroque Motifs and sponged around the edges. A dotted border was added with white gel pen . Once it was dry, I sponged Pumpkin Pie over it to tone the white down and match it more with the rest of the card. The other layers were added with dimensionals.

Today’s tutorial on SCS is written for the Tilt card. It’s written by my sweet friend Charmaine Ikach. Since I couldn’t think of a cool set to use for this type of card, I turned mine in a twist card.

I inked up the puff fish from Whale Wishes in Wild Wasabi and rolled it’s edges in Blue Bayou.

It was stamped on Whisper White cardstock along with three Blue Bayou fishies. I cut all three out and set aside.

Next I stamped bubbles from the background set Sprinklesin Soft Sky on a 2 1/2″ x 3 1/2″ piece of Soft Sky cardstock and sponged it’s edges. I added grass/algae from the same stamp set on the bottom of the piece with Wild Wasabi. Last I added a dotted border on the upper part of the layer with my white gel pen and added a 1/4″ bigger piece of Blue Bayou cardstock behind it.

I cut a small square out through both layers where I wanted my big fish to be and secured him with two pennies and dimensionals. The three little fish were adhered with regular tape and all four of them got a layer of Stardust Stickles to make them sparkle.

My card base is a 4 1/4″ x 8 1/2″ piece of  textured Wild Wasabi cardstock folded in half.

A 3 7/8″ x 3 1/8″ piece of Whisper White was adhered to the top of the card front and the main layers were taped over it with dimensionals. Striped Wild Wasabi ribbon was tied around the card base underneath the image layers.

The sentiment is from Many Happy Returns. I inked up each word separately and stamped it on a 1″ Soft Sky circle. A dotted border was added with Not Quite Navy Marker (it’s close enough to Blue Bayou to use it for this border). I sponged the edges of the circle, added more stamped bubbles with my Sprinkles stamp and taped it off center to a 1 1/4″ Whisper White circle. That circle was paper pierced and adhered with dimensionals to the card base.

I received this beautiful card from Lacey Stephens in the mail yesterday.

You can see more of Lacey’s work on her new blog Hand Stamped by Lacey.

Thank you so much, Lacey. I love it.

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

44

Timestamp: 2008-05-06 22:07:20 UTC

Random.org picked #44. That is Jenn  from Stamp-n-Scrap with Jenn.

Thank you all for your kind comments!

Hugs and smiles

For this BIC challenge, I just picked the colors.

The card base is a 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ piece of Pumpkin Pie cardstock folded in half.

The front was stamped with the Paisley background and Pumpkin Pie.

The sentiment was stamped in Brown Palette ink on Shimmery White cardstock. The flower from Heartfelt Thanks was inked with Pumpkin Pie, Ruby Red and Old Olive Markers, stamped off once, sprayed with my water misting bottle and then stamped three more times over the sentiment.

Oval Nestabilities were used to cut it into an oval and to create the chocolate scallop oval underneath.

The Chocolate Chip layer measures 3 5/8″ x 4 3/4″, the Ruby Red and Kraft cardstock were 1/4″ smaller to the previous layer. The patterned paper is from the Summer Picnic Designer Paper pack.  Pumpkin Pie Striped grosgrain was tied around the Kraft layer.

I punched three 1/4″ Chocolate Chip circles out and adhered them under the ribbon knot. Ruby Red brad topped the circles off.

Be inspired by this Tangerine Courtyard Print by Fabrice De Villeneuve sold at Coldwater Creek.

Use the colors or the pattern….anything that will inspire you to create your card.

I can’t wait to see what you come up with.

Check out the cards made by the Inspiration Challenge Team:

Charmaine Ikach

Danielle Lounds

Dawn McVey

Jennifer Buck

Silke Ledlow

Susan Roberts

If you upload your image to your splitcoast gallery, don’t forget to add BIC12 in the keyword section. That way your card will appear in this search: SCS Submissions