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Here is my sample for this weekend’s sketch challenge.

I started with a 4 1/4″ x 11″ piece of Wild Wasabi cardstock.

I scored it at 2 3/4″ and 5 1/2″ , sponged all the edges and with Wild Wabi and stamped the Argyle from Looks Like Spring. 

The left edges were punched with the corner rounder.

I added a double photo corner on the top right with three black brads.

For the center piece I started with a black scallop rectangle made with my Nestabilities, layered it first with Purely Pomegranate, then with Shimmery White. I sponged the edges of the Shimmery White with Groovy Guava, paper pierced the edges and stamped a saying from Friendship Flowers in it’s center.

I inked the big flower from Looks Like Spring first in Groovy Guava and then rolled the edges in Purely Pomegranate. It was stamped on Shimmery White cardstock and cut out. I added a Pewter Jumbo Eyelet in its center and topped it off with a Fire Circle Rhinestone brad. I taped the flower half over the sentiment layer with double stacked dimensionals (to make it higher).

I punched a hole next to the 2 3/4″ score and tied Purely Pomegranate double stitched ribbon through it. Last I punched some flowers with the Spring Flower punch, layered them over each other and added another Fire Circle Rhinestone brads.

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This weekend’s sketch is a Z fold card with a rectangle layer over it. Again, feel free to add extra layers and another shape for sentiments. As long as you can still see the layout in your card and you use the Z-fold, your card is fine for this challenge.

Z-fold cards are really easy. I posted a tutorial for visual learner.

This week, the winner of the random drawing will get 6″ x 6″ sheets of patterned paper from the My Mind’s Eye pack Cosco sold this spring.

To participate in the challenge and be entered in the stamp set 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 WSC25  (NO SPACE INBETWEEN WSC AND 25) 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 

Lori Craig

MaryJo Albright

Sharon Harnist

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

SCS submissions

Chelsey Navaratil sent me this beautiful card!

I love how elegant this fast card looks.

You can see more of Chelsey’s work on her blog Stampin Girl’s Creations.

Thank you so much for the beautiful card and note!