Sketch Saturday

I love doing sketches. It is so much fun to take a plan and create a card. I especially like doing the ones from PoeticArtistry. For some reason her sketches really inspire me and are easy to work with. I used her sketch from MojoMondayWeek25 to create my card. I wanted to use the set I won from Verve Visuals as well as a set I bought to go with it. Here is here sketch…

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Color Block Card

Well here is one of the cards that I have designed for an upcoming show on Sunday. Now I am going to take this very plane card and juice it up a little at the party. I will post a photo on Sunday of the changes that I made to this card. Stamps: A Tree for All Seasons and A Beautiful Thing Paper: Purely Pomegranate, Old Olive, White, and DSP Bali Breeze Ink: Basic Black…

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Wednesday’s Design by Robbie

I have been doing a lot of sketch challenges lately that I thought you might like a break and see a card I created on my own. I wanted to use a prima flower so I checked my stash and came up with this one. I then needed a centerso I found this little prima flower and added a brad. I then matched my background to the flower. I also wanted to use some patterned…

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Candice’s Color Challenge

Congratulations to Robbie, she was picked as one of the winners through VerveVisuals for a sketch challenge, check out the link to see her cards. Great job Robbie!!! Well my card is really simple, I needed a no brainer today. My hubby and both kids were home today and let me tell you it has been a really busy day. My color challenge colors were Cameo Coral and Tempting Turquoise and I added in the…

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Robbie’s Color Challenge

I saw the faux shaving cream technique on a blog and remembered I had learned how to do this at convention. I had the colors Tempting Turquoise and Garden Green and I immediately thought of an underwater scene. I created the background by sponging Tempting Turquoise all over the white then going back and sponging Garden Green on top. The small picture is a close up of the wheeled background to show how it looks…

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Sketch Saturday

I can’t remember if this weekend is my turn to do a sketch or if it is Robbie’s. I just decided to go ahead and do this one from istamp, check out her blog http://stampinat6213.blogspot.com to see her really cute card. She used DSP from Crew Kids Girls Simply Scrappin’ Kit. I will definitely be using Crew Kids in Sloane’s and Sam’s scrapbooks. So here is the card I came up with for this sketch,…

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