Sketch Day

I know I usually wait until Saturday to post, but I'm off anyway, so I figured I'd post the sketch early.

So first, here's the sketch. As always, feel free to use it as a starting point. You can change things to suit your design. I based this sketch off of a card I made earlier this week. However, I enjoyed it so much that I made a second design. A few dimensions for you, the background panel is about 3.5x4. The "flower" is about 2 inches in diameter.

As you can see I pretty much copied my card design to make the sketch. I had a flower, leaves, and a button on the original card. I also had the sentiment tag placed just so. You'll see in my second card what I mean when I say to change things so they fit your design.

Here's the original card. It was posted on my personal blog earlier this week. I had a lot of fun piecing together my own flower with die-cuts, instead of stamping and cutting out a floral image.

For the second card I did something that I've been wanting to do forever, but for some reason the execution of it just never occurred to me. I love polka dot backgrounds, but I've been wanting multi-coloured dot backgrounds. I was checking out some new-to-me blogs, and came across Laura's, this post in particular, was kind of an "oh yeah" moment. Use the outline polka dot backgrounds and just stamp in your own colour. I suppose if you really didn't want the colour to show you could stamp in versamark and just use it as a guide. I was okay with the outline showing here. With all the fun spring stuff around (and we're finally getting weather forecasts into the double digits!), I decided to pair the dotty background with a few garden boots. I really love these boots. I modified the sketch ever so slightly. Instead of a flower and leaves, I used a scalloped circle. And because my sentiment was too long, I had it flow over the edge of the background piece, since it wouldn't look right hugged up to the edge of the mat.

Card One Supplies: Stamps: Birthday Basics, Polka Dot Basics Paper: Pumpkin Pie, Summer Sunrise, New Leaf, Craft, Vintage Cream Ink: Pumpkin Pie, New Leaf Accessories, etc.: Blossoms, Scalloped Rectangles nestabilities, vintage button, thread, Swiss Dot folder

Card Two Supplies: Stamps: Women of Life, Polka Dot Basics, Green Thumb Paper: White, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie, Taken with Teal, Chocolate Ink: Orangerie, Cote d'Azure, Landscape, Dark Chocolate, Fresh Snow Accessories, etc.: Circle and Rectangle Nestabilities

Ten Minute Monday

I can make cards in ten minutes when I have a great sketch to follow and any other guidelines or challenges. This card uses CPS113 sketch and it also uses Distressing which is the SCS CAS challenge. I used the direct to paper distressing around the edges of the sentiment. Supplies: Stamps - Inkadinkado; Ink - Versafine Onyz Black; Paper - PaperTrey Stamper Select, Making Memories patterned paper; Misc - Nestabilities, MS Butterfly Punch, pearls, Dimensionals, Glue Dots.

Ten Minute Monday 04/06/09

I managed to get my hands on this fun October Afternoon stamp set, Detours. It has some really cute images in it. I had the chance on Saturday night to put together a little something with it.

I inked up the tree with Memento tear drops, then decided that a Berry Sorbet bird would brighten up the card nicely. I added a thin Berry mat, a flag sentiment and polka dot background at the last touch and that was that!

Supplies: Stamps: Detours, Birthday Basics, Polka Dot Basics

Ink: Berry Sorbet, Bamboo Leaves, Rich Cocoa, Fresh Snow

Paper: White, Berry Sorbet, Certainly Celery, Chocolate Chip

Accessories, etc.: pop dots

FTL #36

Another clean, quick and easy sketch! I picked out the patterned paper like Natasha did and then chose a 3D sticker that I have had forever. It feels so good to use up my stash of stuff! I made this into a Mothers Day card using "Mom" from PaperTrey's Women of Life set. Supplies: Stamps - PaperTrey; Paper - PaperTrey Stampers Select, DCWV patterned paper; Ink - Versamagic; Misc- Sandylion 3D sticker. ETA: I guess it would be good to post the sketch!

Time for another sketch. As always, feel free to play along (post a link or use keyword FTL36). Use the sketch as a guideline. You don't need to follow it exactly,but hopefully it inspires you! I based the sketch off of this card I made a few weeks back. I was tempted to just post that card, since I am heading out of town to teach a few classes tomorrow, but I decided to make something that was a bit more simple. The original card was still linear, but I imagine it doesn't quite fit into some definitions of "CAS", what with the watercolouring and the cutting out.

I chose patterned paper, then decided on other colours and stamps from there.

Supplies: Stamps: Trendy Trees Ink: New Leaf, Dark Chocolate Paper: Pumpkin Pie, Real Red, Tempting Turquoise, White Accessories: Stamp-a-ma-jig, pop dots