Hey y'all. Happy Thursday. Just one more day till the weekend begins. :) I hope you're all having an Amazing week. I'm still sick but at least I feel like I'm slowly getting over this pneumonia. At least I have had the energy to design and stamp.
I've already done my "challenge" for the week, but I saw this sketch challenge over at Try Stamping on Tuesday, and knew I wanted to do it too. It was another one of those sketches that I just looked at and knew exactly what I wanted to do. Love when that happens, especially since it happens so rarely, for me at any rate.
Here's my take on the sketch-
And here's the TST sketch-
What do you think? I sketched it at work and went home and was able to recreate my plan so quickly and easily. Apparently though I sketched it too quickly, because I realized later that I missed the extra border under the lower strip and that the lower strip was supposed to go all the way across. Hopefully the design team over at TST won't mind too much.
I started with a base of Peach Parfait, the same as yesterday. Hard to believe I haven't used that color much and then made two very different cards with it, for two different challenges, in one day. Next I layered a Whisper White panel that I ran through my Big Shot with my Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder. Two strips of DSP from Just Add Cake (love that pack!), add some bright color to the front.
For my flower I punched out pieces of Peach Parfait and So Saffron with my Large Scalloped Circle Punch. I tried something new with these pieces and, using my paper snips, made cuts in between each of the scallops and then raised every other one to make it look like individual petals. I layered the two colors on top of each other, so that you could see both colors and secured them with a brad from the Sale-A-Bration Ribbon and Brad pack. The flower was adhered with two dimensionals, for a little more elevation.
The sentiment is from Sprinkled Expressions, another Sale-A-Bration set and I used my Word Window Punch and Modern Label Punch and some more dimensionals to make it stand out.
Here's the inside-
The sentiment is from the same Sprinkled Expressions set. I colored it in with my Stampin Write Markers in Peach Parfait, Baja Breeze, So Saffron, and Wild Wasabi. A strip of DSP carries on the design theme from the front. It's hard to tell from my picture (sorry about that) but the DSP is up from the bottom a little so that there is still some Whisper White c/s showing.
Like I said, Quick and Easy but I think it's so fun too!
I hope you liked today's card and I hope it inspires you to create something today, maybe for a challenge, maybe a new technique... Remember the goal of this blog is to Just Try.
I hope to see yo back here tomorrow for my End of the Week Technique. It's one I've been wanting to try for a while now.
Till next time-
Remember- Life isn't about Waiting for the storm to pass, but learning to Dance in the rain.
Be Safe,
Shan
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Cute card. Like the colors. Thanks for playing along at Try Stampin on Tuesday.
ReplyDeleteCan't believe that you are sick with pneumonia and still stamping, although it may be the medicine that cures you. Lovely job at interpreting the sketch and didn't even notice you missed a piece of the sketch until you mentioned it. TFS
ReplyDeleteI hope you get better soon.
ReplyDeleteYou card is beautiful thank you for sharing and taking part in TSOT x x
Very Nice Card, I love how you decorated the inside as well. Thanks for playing along with TSOT sketch.
ReplyDeleteHope you get better soon. But it is easy to see that your illness has not affected your creativity. Thanks for playing at Try Stampin'.
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