Card Sketch Challenge

Good Morning Friends!

I've been into doing challenges lately. It's what has been keeping my brain alive! LOL This challenge, actually, was for 2 places! 1. for Creating The Crafty Life and 2. My Stampin' Up! Team's Facebook Group, Luvly Stampers.

The sketch is from CCL (Creating The Crafty Life). I used it for both groups.

I don't know about you, but I love to follow a sketch sometimes. It takes all the guess work out of designing a card. Some days that's what I need. A plan to follow so I can create something beautiful without putting too much pressure on my stressed out brain.

Here's the sketch:

I love this sketch! It's simple and clean, with lots of layers.

Here's the card I created. I used Hello Honey for my card base. I used the Moonlight DSP stack for the patterned panels. A strip of Basic Grey card stock across the center. The stamp set I used is Blooming With Hope. I just love that stamp set! Sadly, it's retiring. I colored the flowers using my Stampin' Write Markers in Hello Honey, Lost Lagoon and Wild Wasabi.

You may have noticed that I missed one of the layers...oops! My stamping is a little crooked and my panels aren't straight. I'm OK with that. I'm human. I make mistakes. After all, if I wanted a "perfect" card, I'd buy a Hallmark. I much prefer a handmade, from the heart, card! Imperfections and all.

Thank you for stopping by and spending some time with me today. I hope you have a wonderful day!

A Golden Hello

Hello My Crafty Friends!

Welcome to my blog! I'm so glad you decided to visit today. Today I have a card to share with you. I really love how this came out. At first I wasn't sure of the colors - white and gold, but I got over it and went on to make one of my most favorite cards! This was a sketch challenge I did over at Creating The Crafty Life. It's a wonderful community to make crafty friends, swap projects and do challenges.

This card is a hybrid of sorts, meaning, I used some Stampin' Up! products and some other companies' products. I know, shame on me for using "contraband" as my upline, Wendy, calls it.

Stampin' Up! actually allows us to use other products from time to time, as long as the Stampin' Up! product is the "highlight" of the show, so to speak.

I used the "hello" die from the Hello You Thinlits from Stampin' Up!. I also used some heart punches from Marvy Uchida. The polka dot card base is from American Crafts. the ovals are all Spellbinders dies. 

In my opinion, the "hello" makes the card! What do you think? Let me know in the comments. 

Have a happy, crafty day!