TMS #174: Celebrate the Season

Hi Friends! With Tuesday here, it's time for Tuesday Morning Sketches.

DRS Designs is our sponsor this week, and they generously provided stamps to the team for this challenge, and our Melissa came up with a great sketch.

I think I've been influenced by our Best of the Best Guest Designer, Silke, and her gorgeous white, embossed cards. I thought about using my Scoreboard to create embossed lines on the cs as she does, but I knew I could never come close to her gorgeous creations, so I used an embossing folder instead. :)

I stamped the Winter Trees stamp with Rhubarb Memento Ink, then added dimensional snow with my Snow Marker.

The sentiment on the front of the card was part of a piece of DP, which I cut out with a Splendid Circles Spellbinders die, and the pine is from a McGill punch.

In keeping with the sparse color on the front of the card, I simply stamped the Beauty of Nature stamp on the inside of the card base, without any other adornment.

I hope you'll join us this week in this fun challenge, but be sure to check out the Tuesday Morning Sketch Challenge blog first, to see the rest of the DT's cards, as well as our Best of the Best GD's card. You'll truly be inspired!

Thanks for stopping by, and have a great week.

~Hugs,

 

Stamps: Winter Trees, Beauty of Nature Christmas Greeting (DRS Designs)
Paper: Father Christmas (Bo Bunny)
Ink: Memento; Distress Ink; Snow Marker (Marvy)
Dies: Splendid Circles, Curved Rectangles, A2 Matting Basics A & B (Spellbinders)
Accessories: Designer Pine punch (McGill); Decorative Tile Set embossing folder (Cuttlebug); ribbon (Michaels); jeweled brad
Size: A2 (4.25" x 5.5")

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Tuesday Morning Sketch Challenge #146: Sunny Days

Hello Friends! I'm back with another Tuesday Morning Sketch Challenge! DRS Designs is our sponsor this week, and they generously sent me a couple of really cute, high-quality stamps to work with. I'm excited to show you what I did with them.

Melissa's sketch, this week, was a serious challenge for me. I'm more comfortable making cards with lots of layers, and all that blank space was a little bit scary. But, I persevered, and I really like the end result. It certainly helped that I had such a great stamp to use. ;)

The first thing you may notice is that my card is missing those two little squares in the corner. Well, I flipped the sketch upside down and used two circles instead of squares. I also used my Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol, rather than Copics. I've been wanting to color on kraft with pencils for awhile, and these stamps were perfect for it. And, what fun! I'll definitely be coloring on kraft again soon!

The light blue butterfly is part of the main image stamp, but the other butterflies were another single stamp. Rather than stamp them all together, I inked them one at a time so I could spread them across the scene, then I colored them and added Stickles to their wings. The sentiment is a Verve stamp.

I loved making the fence white because it's so striking against kraft cs. I used Sparkly Fluff for the centers of the flowers. It's always fun making a card that begs to be touched. :) After I finished coloring the main image, and before adding Stickles and Sparkly Fluff, I used my Stamp-a-m-a-jig to re-stamp the image over the coloring to give it a crisper look.

For the sun, I embossed a piece of pale yellow cs with a swirly design, inked up the raised areas with Scattered Straw Distress Ink, punched two circles from it, then sponged Walnut Stain lightly around the edges of the circles. I used a Bird Flourish Spellbinders die for the dark yellow flourish and added a few rhinestones and streaks of Stickles to it for sparkle.

See the butterflies in the upper right corner of the inside? That's the stamp that I used on the front of the card for the butterflies. It's nice that they are arranged so that you can stamp them as a group or split them up. Both the butterflies and the flowers in the lower corner were stamped in Versamark ink.

Alrighty, folks, it's your turn, now! Head on over to the Tuesday Morning Sketch Challenge blog and check out the fab inspiration by the rest of the DT, then show us your interpretation of the sketch. I can't wait to see what you create!

I'll be entering this card in the following challenges:
Crafty Friends Challenges #3: Inspiration
Crazy 4 Challenges C4C136: Photo inspiration
Do You Stack Up DYSU#71: Use a Flower
Flourishes Bring Back Beautiful BBB22: Beauty of the Garden

Thanks for stopping by and have a great week!

~Hugs!

 

Stamps: Flower Fence with Butterflies, Four Corner Butterfly (DR Designs); Sunny Days (Verve)
Ink: Staz-On; Memento; Distress Ink; Versamark
Dies: Bird Flourishes, Labels One (Spellbinders)
Accessories: Daisy Edge Punch (Martha Stewart); 1-1/4" circle punch (EK Success); Regal Flourishes embossing folder (Sizzix); colored pencils (Prismacolor); rhinestones; Sparkly Fluff; Stickles; Shimmer Spritz; sewing thread
Size: A2 (4.25" x 5.5")

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Tuesday Morning Sketch Challenge #133: Get Well Soon!

Hello Blog Friends, and Happy Valentine's Day to you! We're back with another Tuesday Morning Sketch Challenge, and this week is the judged challenge with a 2-1-4 twist: you must use 2 ribbons, 1 embellishment, and 4 layers. Think you're up to the challenge? Well, let's hope so, because our sponsor is DRS Designs and their stamps are fab! I mean...just look how cute sick little Leonard is in this photo. :)


Jessica George has come up with a really unique sketch for this challenge:

She designed this to be a 4-1/4" square card and a scrapling. However, I made my card, incorporating everything into one card--not because I'm clever or ornery :), but because I didn't know what a scrapling was. Darn it! Turns out scraplings are cute and fun to make, too. But, in case you don't know what a scrapling is, it's just basically an A2 card base that you trim down to a 4-1/4" square card. The leftover scrap can be decorated to coordinate with your card to be used as a bookmark, or gift tag, or whatever you want. Isn't that a great idea! Anyway, you can make one card, as I did, or design a card and scrapling. I know I'm definitely going to make a scrapling eventually--just not today.

Here's my take on this sketch:

I colored Leonard with Copics. Then, I added Glossy Accents to his thermometer and glass vase, and a drop of Stickles to the center of his flower. I also drew little lines on the screw top of his ice pack. For his blanket, I colored it with Copics, then used the colorless blender to make light lines, then used a Prismacolor pencil over that to add a plaid design.

The image was cut out using a Crocheted Circle Die, then I paper pierced it by holding a Spellbinders circle die in place and piercing inside it to get the holes in a circular pattern. The sentiment was heat embossed. 

For the ribbons, I cut slits in the dp and just pulled the ribbons through before tying them.

Here's the inside:

I used a Prismacolor pencil to draw the blue lines. I love that look.

So, that's it for my card today. Be sure to go to the Tuesday Morning Sketch blog to check out the rest of the Design Team's awesome creations, then design your own and link it to the site for a chance at a fantastic prize from DRS Designs. I can't wait to see what you create!

Thanks for stopping by my blog, and have a crafty week!

~Hugs,

 

Stamps: Leonard Pig Sickday Blues (DRS Designs); Sunshine Cheer (Our Craft Lounge); Lg Porcelain Crackle (Stamp Camp)
Paper: Picket Fence (Lily Bee Designs)
Ink: Copic markers, Distress Ink
Dies: Crocheted Circle Die (Our Daily Bread); Fancy Tags Three (Spellbinders)
Accessories: Organic embossing folder (Cuttlebug); embossing powder (Zing); ribbon (Offray); Prismacolor pencils; button; twine (The Twinery); Glossy Accents; Stickles; sewing thread; foam dots
Size: A2 (4.25" x 5.5")

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