Outlined Tree
Yesterday was SCS’s Sketch challenge day. It’s definitely my favorite challenge. I couldn’t play later in the morning and decided to try to come up with a card early. I had woken up very early and couldn’t go back to sleep. Once I wake up, my mind is racing.
So I got up, checked emails and thought to check the challenge threat. Sure enough, Roxie was kind enough to upload the sketch close to midnight my time. I wasn’t sure about the sketch until I checked samples that had already been made.
Seriously! I am not the worst challenge chaser. I don’t think some people ever sleep. LOL
Most entries had a slipped piece 3 down a bit and made piece 4B bigger. I could do that I thought, grabbed my Season of Joy set and went to work.
I did start out with a regular size, rectangle card. But after finishing my main image (that was quite big), I had to go back to a square card. I didn’t have time to redo the rectangle layer. That’s why it’s a bit shorter then in the sketch. It’s the thought that counts, right?
The card base is a 5 1/4″ x 10 1/2″ piece of Old Olive cardstock. The front is sponged around the edges.
The Dashing Designer paper measures 3 1/2″ x 5″.
On the left hand side of it is a small strip of black cardstock, followed by a slightly bigger strip of Very Vanilla Cardstock.
That piece was sponged, 4th generation stamped with the Swirl from Season of Joy in Old Olive and paper pierced.
I taped those layers down and added Faux Stitching with the Argyle stamp from All in a Row in black ink.
The horizontal layer of the Dashing Designer paper measures 2 1/4″ x 3 1/2″ and was layered on a 1/4″ bigger, sponged Real Red cardstock. The edges were stamped with my Argyle stamp as well. Wrapped around it is a piece of black gingham ribbon.
The tree from Season of Joy was inked up with Old Olive classic ink. I wiped away the ink on the star and added Real Red color with my marker. I huffed on it and stamped the image on a 2″ x 3″ piece of Very Vanilla Cardstock. I used the ticket corner punch on each corner, sponged the edges, stamped the swirl image (4th generation) over it and stamped the small dotted line from In the Spotlight in black around it’s edges.
This piece was layered on a 2 1/4″ x 3 1/4″ piece of sponged and ticket corner punched Old Olive, that in it’s turn on a 1/4″ bigger piece of Black cardstock. I added silver brads in the four corner, outline the tree with a black micron pen and used my Sakura glitter pen on all the dots on/around the swirls as well as for my star.
My circle accent started with a 1 1/4″ Vanilla cardstock circle. Again I stamped the swirl from Season of Joy in 4th generation Old Olive and sponged the edges. Next I stamped Holiday Happiness and a star border underneath in black with stamps from the So Many Sayings set. The Vanilla circle was layered on a 1 3/8″ black circle and then on a sponged real red scallop circle.
The red star is a stamp from Season of Joy as well. I stamped it, cut it out, secured it with a black brad and added glitter over the star as well as all the dots on the swirl of the vanilla circle as well.
Last I added three black brads from the vintage brad assortment on the top right.
Personal note: Austin will need to get his Tonsils and Anoids removed. His procedure is scheduled for the 27th of September. My poor boy! But hopefully that will help him to breath easier.
