Eighty Five

Woo, it's {almost} Friday. I've returned with a sketch this week. I was inspired by this delightful card by Carrie Gaskin. I decided to modify the sketch a teensy bit. Instead of the scallops, I went with a strip of patterned paper slightly apart from the mat layer. I made mine 6.5x3.5. I really enjoy making cards this size!

Here's my card based on the sketch directly. I used the colours in the Haiku paper as my inspiration. Now that it's available at a clearance price, I ordered 5 packs... so I feel like I can use more of my stash. This was one of my all time favorite paper packs!

The second card is basically a copy of Carrie's card using some different colours. Once again I used the colours from the Thoroughly Modern paper as a starting point. I ended up substituting Soft Suede with Basic Grey, and Bermuda Bay with Taken with Teal. I am still a little mournful towards losing Taken with Teal. Considering turquoise is such an in colour this year and Bermuda Bay isn't sticking around, I was a little taken aback at that particular decision! Oh well, hopefully there will still be some paper around for my upcoming stamp club order!

For the ribbon and bow, I wrapped a piece of double sided tape around where I intended to place the bow. I gathered it in so it would look like the bow actually originated from that point. I made the bow on my plastic canvas version of the bow-easy, then stuck it on. So much easier than figuring out the right lengths and worrying about which way the bow ends up!

Supplies: Stamps: Paradise, Fifth Avenue Floral (Stampin' Up!), Signature Greetings (PTI) Ink: More Mustard, So Saffron, Old Olive, Orangerie, Taken with Teal, Rose Red, Basic Grey Paper: White, Basic Grey, Tangerine Tango, Thoroughly Modern, Haiku Accessories, etc.: Teal Satin ribbon, So Saffron grosgrain, scallop edge punch

If you decide to play along, feel free to leave a link!

Ten Minute Saturday

Hello everyone. Sorry there's no sketch this week. With all the family get-togethers and also trying to maintain a general state of relaxed-ness on the days off, the sketch just didn't happen!

I do have a ten minute (really it was less) card for you though! Using Dot Spot, Birthday Basics, and few Memento inks, I had a card ready in a snap!

I've also grouped the sketches, up to FTL 81 in four documents. Sorry, I couldn't figure out how to actually export a 4-page document with the software I have. Hopefully this is an acceptable alternative! *Amendment* Due to the awesomeness of others in the crafting community, Amy has grouped these into a single .pdf. Woot! It should be here soon. If that doesn't work, you can also try here.

FTL 1-19 FTL20-40 FTL41-60 FTL61-81

FTL 84

Hope you are having a great weekend! Supplies: stamps - Bitsy Cakes (BG), Cupcake Collection (PTI); paper - sweet blush, soft suede, kiwi kiss, white; ink - kiwi kiss, sweet blush, raspberry fizz; acc - candy cane stripe embossing folder, dimensionals, scalloped edge punch, bling (HA)

FTL 84 Mom

This is a quick and easy sketch!  I water colored the flower and leaves with SU! and PaperTrey inks and an aquabrush.  All stamps and paper are from PaperTrey.
Supplies: Stamps - PaperTrey; Ink - PTI SPring Moss, SU! Perfect Plum, Pale Plum, Barely Banana; Paper - PaperTrey; Misc - Aquabrush, EK Success border punch, Amuse Micro Twinklers

FTL 84

Happy Friday! Here's this week's sketch, I'm going to ask that you try to keep things square. If it's not working out, that's okay, as long as you're inspired! Here's my take on the sketch! Very basic. My card measure 4.25x4.25 The main image panel is 2.5x2.25. The rest seems pretty straightforward. Supplies: Stamps: Friends 'Til the End, Polka Dot Basics II, Faux Ribbon Ink: Summer Sunrise, Fresh Snow, Chocolate Chip Paper: White, Dark Chocolate, Summer Sunrise, Raspberry Fizz Accessories, etc.: Scalloped border punch (EK Success), button Just a side note, I made a little video about what I'm calling the "Faux Letterpress Technique" over here. I call it faux, since I'm using a die-cut roller machine and not an authentic letterpress. I know people of the letterpress art probably cringe when anyone refers to it as letterpress. As always, feel free to leave a link!