I just returned from a nice, but brief holiday to Toronto. I am slowly getting to all the amazing sketch challenge cards from weeks past. I try to comment on them all.
I returned home to a Papertrey Ink parcel with a few of the latest releases. I couldn't resist ordering the Everyday Button Bits set. There are so many cute images and sentiments in the set. I decided to make an ultra simple card with the hot air balloons and some buttons in primary colours.
I stamped the ground and cut it out, placed that on the blue "sky" background, added the balloon baskets image and chose my buttons. Finally I added a scalloped mat and a greeting.
Supplies:
Stamps: Everyday Button Bits
Ink: Spring Moss, Rich Cocoa, Pure Poppy
Paper: White, Bashful Blue, Lemon Tart
Accessories, etc.: Buttons, pop dots, scalloped square nestabilities
I don't have a circular image that is large enough to cover the "medallion" area so I made a 3x3 inch card. I used an Inkadinkado image that is actually two stamps - the daisy and the outer circle. I used Memento Rich Cocoa dew drop on the center of the flower and Memento Dandylion on the petals. The outer image was stamped in SU! Oled Olive. The sentiment is from PaperTrey's Friends Til the End set.
Then I got an idea to use one of my larger stamps on an A2 sized card. I traced the bottom of a container on the front of the card. Then I masked off the perimeter of the half circle and stamped the image from PTI's With Sympathy set with SU! Old Olive . I stamped it several times to get coverage within the circle. I then stamped the flower from the same set with PTI's Enchanted Evening ink. After removing the mask I stamped the sentiment in Enchanted Evening ink.
Supplies: Stamps - Inkadinkado, PaperTrey; Ink - SU! Old Olive, Memento Rich Cocoa, Memento Dandylion, PTI Enchanted Evening.
I thought I'd go with elegant theme here. I went with a gold, chocolate, and cream colour scheme. To keep things fancy I embossed the Medallion image with gold embossing powder.
