Sketch Saturday

Today is Sketch Saturday and as always they have a fantastic sketch.  I was feeling a little grungy vintage thanks for my score at Hobby Lobby (paper packs 50% off) so here's what I made

The patterned paper is from The Paper Studio (Tattered and Worn and  Poetic Postcards collections).  The focal image is from Precious Butterflies (SU!).  The "friend" sentiment and grunged stamps are from PTI ( Grunge Me and Framed)

That cute embossed edge is from SU! a new product (to me anyway) to emboss edges.

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Sketch Saturday Camp Card

I'm behind in blogging.  I've had this card done for a day or two, but haven't had time to snap pix and post.  So here we go on the second post of the day

I am having a stamp camp with my best stamping buddy Tara this weekend.  This is one of the cards that will be made.

I used the Sketch Saturday layout (hence the post title) and played with Copics and colorless blender solution to create a gloomy but rainbow brite thank you card

I used the sun ray and retro circles embossing folders from Tim Holtz to add texture to the base. I was going for a sun bursting out from the clouds on a rainy day effect.  I colored the center piece with BG72, BG75 and BG 78 then dribbled colorless blending solution on them to create the bubbled pattern.  This was for a  rain drops-clouds-bubbles-amoebas swarming a light source kind of  look.

To brighten things up I stamped the sentiment form Thanks All Ways and then colored the letters in rainbow colors (not sure if I got them in the right order because my baby girl (who is going on 20) wasn't here to sing me the rainbow song :) )

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Off To College

Last year as my daughter and her friends went off to their first year at college I decided to send them cards every few months just so they got mail (and so I had something to do with all the cards I made :).  This year as they head off to their second year, I plan on doing the same thing.  They are all rather different and so I get to create lots of different styles.  I am going to use the images I colored here to make the first round

Here is the first one I finished for The Pink One herself, Miss Katie-bird

I used this week's Saturday Sketch #221 as the layout.  It was just perfect for the card that was forming in my mind and  added a few details I hadn't pictured yet. I LOVE how this one turned out!!!

I used the striped image from  BB:Retrro (PTI) to create the plaid.  I only stamped up to the point where the other layers started for times sake, but you can't tell with the bitty bit of overlap.  The next pattern is BB:Houndstooth also from PTI.  I stamped that in True Black (PTI) on Melon Mambo card stock (SU!) and sponged the edges in black to offset it a little.  The sentiment is from Mega Mixed Messages (PTI) and the 2 little embellies next to the sentiment are hot pink staples.

The girl is Poppy, one of my new digis from TI.

Here is the Copic map:
Flowers: R24, R27, R29
Leaf/stem: YG23, YG25, YG95
Clothes: T1, T4, T6
Hair: RV10, RV13, RV14
Skin: E000, E00, E11, R81

Interesting how I made this for Katie before I saw her all pinked out for the Susan G Komen 3 day Walk For The Cure .... her hair looked pretty close to this for the fund raiser  ;)

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Wish

I found a couple of new challenges last week.  One is Flutter By Wednesday (FBW) and the deal there is you have to use butterflies or fairies.  My best stamping buddy Tara made the FBW design team and this week is the restart of the challenge so I bought me a bunch of fairy digis and decided to play along.

The layout is for Sketch Saturday - another challenge I stumbled across this week.  I used this weeks sketch and the Open Challenge from FBW to make this card:

 Color scheme is Raspberry Fizz and Simply Chartreuse (PTI).  I used Raspberry Fizz pattern pack for the banner strips.

 The sentiment is from Tiny Tags II (PTI).   The cuteness little fairy is Spunky Sprite from SoG.  I colored her using E11, E00, E000, E0000S(Skin), YG25 (hair), YG23(dress), and YR26, YR23 (flower).  I added a contrast using C1 on the wings then glittered the heck out of them so they look more fairy-like.

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