Company and travel keeping me out of the craft room lately, but today there was a bit of time. I was inspired by the sketch at CAS Colours & Sketches. It was fun to use a new set from Gina K Designs, The Good Life. I colored with pencils and Gamsol, and cut with coordinating dies. To create the little frame, I dragged the ink pad on some paper to get a woodgrain, and then cut with two square dies.
Shaker cards are always a special event for me, but this sketch spoke 'shaker' to me. I wanted a card to send to my brother saying how excited I was to be seeing him soon on Cape Cod.
So I created the background with Summertime Waves embossing folder of the Month for June from Spellbinders. I cut a 2 1/2" circle and the behind that is some white card stenciled with Brutus Monroe stencil, Seashell Swirls. The little elements were all cut from color scrap card using a variety of dies - Gina K, Flora & Fauna, and Savvy. The sentiment is from jillibean Octopus set.
Hope you will feel crafty and join the challenge at TSOT!
For my Design Team card this week at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge, I have used Fine Frames Diamond Die set from Altenew, and Gina K Designs Modern Floral stamp/stencil/die bundle. The Gina K inks used are Light and Medium Carnation, with enamel embellishments, Fashion Jet, from Spellbinders.
Hope you will join us for Sketch #586 this week!
Also linking this card to My Time to Craft # 538 CAS challenge
This set Yarn Love from Simon Says Stamp gets lots of use because I have so many friends that knit and crochet.
I stamped the yarns on scrap colored card that coordinated with this piece of patterned paper that looked like knit to me; that paper and the embellishments are from my long retired Close To My Heart stash. I don't have the dies, so all was fussy cut. Ink on all was Outdoor Denim.
Hope you will check out the rest of the Design Team creations at TSOT and join the challenge!
My Design Team contribution for #584 at
Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge.
I did some ink smooshing on a stencil with greens and gold. The aperture and sentiment panel were cut with Spellbinders Nestabilities. The foliage die cuts and sentiment are Gina K Designs.
Hope you will check out the sketch and play along!
My first grandchild graduated from high school this month! Honor Roll all four years, and we are so proud. I made this card using the school's colors. I saw a similar design on Pinterest, but made some alterations in size and wanted to add color. The number dies are from Altenew, and the stamps inside are Studio g I got on sale many years ago. I used gold embroidery floss to make my tassel.
This is a very versatile sketch. It had me puzzled for a bit, but then had this idea. I sure hope you will visit Try A Sketch On Tuesday and see what the rest of Design Team has for your inspiration. And we hope you'll play along!
I love being able to use favorite scraps. These are papers from CTMH from the early 2000's because I hoard :-) I made four tiny envelopes, the stamps are all from Gina K Designs Postage & More set. The back panel was embossed with Altenew's Organic Linen folder.
