fresh & fun

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.