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Weekend Sketch Challenge #4

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Jun 012007

It’s time to play again.

The inspiration for this sketch came from my Party Time Monkey card last weekend. I love simple sketches. So for the next few weeks we will take it easy! Here is the sketch for this weekend:

This will be the last time I raffle away something for using my sketch until after my trip to Germany.

I am getting excited. The kids and I are going back to Germany for two weeks. We are leaving on the 11th of June and come back on the 25th. I haven’t been home in 4 years!

I will still post sketches the Fridays I am gone, but I won’t do raffles until I am back home. I am a scatterbrain and would just forget to send out the stuff! LOL

I preordered from the Fall Preview catalog this morning. I am thrilled to finally get some new Stampin’ Up! rubber!!! I can’t wait!!! For those of you curious on what I preordered….don’t judge me, but I got it all. The whole Shebang! I am “SU new rubber deprived”.

The winner of this weekends raffle will get some Zoofari images! My order will come in on Tuesday and I will get the images out on Wednesday.

I know a lot of people really dislike this set. I think it will make for some funky cards and can’t wait to play with it. I am so excited to finally get some new Stampin’ Up! rubber!!! I can’t wait!!! It has been wayyyyy to long.

To participate in this weeks challenge, make a card with this sketch and upload it on your blog or on Splitcoaststampers. Then add a link to your card in the comment section! I will draw a winner on Tuesday morning. I let this weeks sketch run a day longer because I won’t get the Zoofari set until then.

I made this card for the sketch challenge this morning. I had bought All Mixed Up because of the cute images it comes with and all the fun posibilities. I am ashamed to say that this is the first time I used it. I still really like it though. I think it’s a fun set to let your kids play with too. Bummer SU didn’t give it another year and it’s now on the retiring list.

My card base is a 5 1/4″ x 10 1/2″ Cool Caribbean cardstock.

No Chocolate Chip on this card! I was trying to work it in though. LOL It’s simply my favorite neutral color to enhance cards.

On top of the Caribbean is a 5″ square of Basic Black followed by a 4 3/4″ square Certainly Celery POP designer paper. The scallop border on the bottom of the paper was made with the corner rounder.

I layered a 2 1/4″ x 4 3/4″ piece of Apricot Appeal Designer paper over the Celery paper and “stitched” all the edges with my All in A Row stamp. It will now permanently stay on my table! Why always put it away just to get it out for the next card?

The Miss you from Take Three is stamped in black on Whisper white and slipped under my Apricot POP paper. The three black circles are punched out with the 1/2″ circle punch. I added turquoise eyelets from the Favorite collection in the center of the circles. Well…kinda in the center. I was stamping early and didn’t want to wake my kids with eyelet banging. So I punched holes and set the eyelets with my hole punches.

For the main image I stamped the midrift and head of the duck on whisper white cardstock. I colored the image with Going Gray, Apricot Appeal, Taken with Teal and Cool Caribbean ink pads and aqua painter. The top part is sponged really soft with bashful blue. I cut a black mat with my Coluzzle and layered that on a Cool Caribbean punchout from my Giga Scallop Circle punch from Uchida. It still needed some black so I outlined the scallops with my Micron pen. I paper pierced a hole in each scallop and added a dot with the pen.

Triple Challenge card

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Jun 012007

I am helplessly behind this week’s challenges on Splitcoast. So yesterday, I worked on a card that qualifies for the Color challenge, Sketch Challenge and Way to Use it challenge.

The colors for the color challenge were Garden Green, Cool Caribbean and Chocolate chip. That is one great color combo. I will have to use it more often. It will get me using my neglected Garden Green.

The Sketch challenge was a sketch I didn’t think I would do. It didn’t appeal at all to me and looked rather hard to turn into a cute card. I switched it up just a hair and made it into a square card. I also added some accents to soften it up a bit.

The Way to Use it challenge was surprisingly easy after last weeks YoYo Yellow dilema. All we had to do is use a Stampin’ Up! set that is on the retirement list. I chose Balmy Breezes. I figured the Palm Tree would go well with the color challenge.

I started out, surprise, surprise with a Chocolate Chip card base. The card is a 5 1/4″ square. Next I cut a Caribbean colored patterned paper from the Perhaps BasicGrey Paper pad and adhered it to my card front. I looked through all my paper until I found some that had garden green on it. I cut two 1 1/2″ x 5″ strips and layered those on 1 3/8″ x 5″ chocolate chip cardstock. Once those were taped on to the card I got my All In a Row stamps out and Faux Stitched the edges.

Okay….you can tell I go through phases, right? This faux stitching might be my next chocolate chip. Something that I will have a hard time NOT using on every card!

I stamped the Palm tree from Balmy Breezes in Black Palette ink on Shimmery White cardstock. I colored the leaves with YG67 Moss and G21 Lime Green Copic Markers. For the bark I used E35 Charmois and E47 Dark Brown Markers. The water is colored with BG15 Aqua and the sky behind it with BG01 Aqua Blue. All colors except for the BG01 are in the Copic Ciao B set.

I layered the image on a piece of chocolate chip cardstock. Then I punched out four Giga Marvy Scallop Squares and layered them behind the chocolate chip layer to make the scallop border. I adhered the layered image with dimensionals on my card.

Next I punched out a Chocolate Chip ribbon slider with my CuttleBug and stamped the circular image from Balmy Breezes in Cool Caribbean on Shimmery white. I stamped the small I Miss you from All Year Cheer II in Black Palette ink over that. The image was punched out with a 1″ circle punch, sponged on the edges and layered on my ribbon slider. I ran brown striped May Arts ribbon through the slider and taped that down with dimensionals as well.

Since I told you yesterday about coloring your Prima Flowers and Brads,I thought I show you how those come out. All four brads on this card were a lighter shade of brown. I used E49 Dark Bark Copic Marker to make them into chocolate chip brads. The green flower was the same shade as the flower in the photograph in front of the card. I colored that one with YG67 Moss.

RAK Amanda Collins

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Jun 012007

Amanda Collins, aka tropicalichick sent me this wonderful bella card.

I love the My Mind’s Eye paper, her coloring of the bella stamp, her scalloped border made with the slit punch and the creative way she used her scallop square punch.

Thanks Amanda!!!