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Here is my sample for this weekend sketch. Do you ever wonder if you have TOO MUCH hardware on your card? I was wondering about that after I finished this card. It’s a Christmas card after all…

I started out by stamping the Christmas tree from Sidekick Sayings in Black Stazon on a 2 1/4″ x 3 1/2″ piece of Shimmery White cardstock.

 I stamped just the Christmas tree again on a separate piece of Shimmery White, colored it in with Purely Pomegranate, Certainly Celery, Always Artichoke and Summer Sun classic ink and Aqua Painter and cut it out.

I used Soft Sky ink and Aqua painter to add color to the main image, layered it on a  2 1/2″ x 3 3/4″ piece of Always Artichoke cardstock, paper pierced a border and adhered the colored tree on top of the one in the image.

Next I added Purely Pomegranate ink over part of the saying to highlight it. Dazzling Diamond glitter was added on the ornaments and star of the tree with help of my glue pen. Last I added a ribbon holder from the Antique Brass Hodgepodge Hardware to the bottom right of the image with some Theater Ribbon Original tied to it.

The card base is a 4 1/4″ x 5″ piece of Always Artichoke cardstock folded in half. The right corners were corner rounded. The next layer is a 4″ x 4 3/4″ piece of Purely Pomegranate cardstock, with a large Soft Sky photo corner on it’s top right corner. Again the right corners were corner rounded. Five Antique Brass brads were added to the corner.

I cut a half circle out of Wintergreen Designer paper with my Coluzzle and layered it on a slightly bigger half circle of Soft Sky cardstock. It was taped to the left edge of the Purely Pomegranate layer and three Antique Brass Jumbo Eyelets were added.

The center image was adhered to the card with dimensionals.

Here is the sketch for this weekend’s challenge. This is the last time the prize is a one sheet each of the retired Litte Reminder sticker sheets, as well as one 6″ x 6″ sheet of each of the matching Notations designer paper .

This is the layout from Jenn’s card that I cased last Sunday, when she was the Featured stamper.

To participate in the challenge, 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 WSC22  (NO SPACE INBETWEEN WSC AND 22)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 of the clear stamps with Random.org on Wednesday at 9:00 a.m.

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

Charmaine Ikach

Jenn Balcer 

Laurie Schmidlin and

Sharon Harnist

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

SCS submissions

Maria Jennings sent me this beautiful Pocket card!

Thank you so much, Maria!