It’s time for another sketch challenge over at the Freshly Made Sketches site, and this week our most talented pilot friend, Jennifer Timko, is our hostess. She has a fabulous sketch for us, and I think it is so easy to use in a variety of ways.
While it may not look like it at first glance, I did try to stay true to the spirit of the sketch. You just have to look for it.
I just love this happy little snowman from the Snow Place stamp set. And he is so fun to decorate. I decided to dress him up a bit with a hat and tie.
I started out by lightly sponging some Pool Party ink onto the card base. Then I stamped and embossed the snow flakes with some white embossing powder and placed some white sequins from the Metallic Sequin Assortment on some of them.
The “merry” is from the Christmas Greetings Thinlits Dies. I cut out some of the Red Foil Sheets with the die. The “Christmas” is from the Holly Jolly Greetings stamp set.
We hope you’ll play along and make your own card using the sketch! You can jump over to the Freshly Made Sketches site for a dose of creative inspiration to get you started.
Enjoy your Wednesday, and have wonderful Thanksgiving! Thanks for stopping by!
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I have a set, Wonderland, that I fell in love with from the Holiday catalog that I hadn’t inked up yet, so I decided it was high time to use it. I inked up the stamp with the beautiful trees with Old Olive ink and stamped off once before stamping on my card stock. I did this a couple of times and then repeated this with Mossy Meadow ink.
When I saw this sketch, I immediately thought of the squares as presents. So I pulled out the Your Presents set. I stamped and cut out the presents and then added some ribbon and baker’s twine for embellishments.
I pulled out my wooden snowflake elements and inked them up with Versamark ink and covered them with Gold Stampin’ Emboss Powder. I used them as the three square elements in the sketch. I think these snowflakes are so pretty that I wanted them to be the stars of the show.
Isn’t this a great clean and simple sketch? I love it, so why did it take me so long to make a card with it? I mean I really struggled with this sketch. I felt like everything I was making was too boring and plain. So I ended up fiddling with this card all morning yesterday — adding a little here and there, trying different colors, etc… I have decided that I love other people’s CAS cards, but not so much my own. I can do clean, but the simple part is hard for me. Well enough about my card’s origins — here it is.
Welcome to another Monday Montage Blog Hop! We are a group of ten stampers who love to stamp and share what we create. All you have to do to follow along is to click on the links at the bottom of each post.
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