OWH Sunday Sketch

Hi ho ... here are the samples and deets on this weeks OWH Sunday Sketch.

Thanks Julie at OWH for sharing your amazing sketch skills!

The sketch itself is gorgeous ... so many possibilities!

And I thought of  A LOT of possibilities

First up is a coffee card ... I love me some coffee cards :)

I started with an Early Espresso card base and added some Fancy Flourishes in Early Espresso.  I wanted it to look like steam.  Since every to-go coffee cup known to man has a corrugated sleeve, I used Crumb Cake card stock and ran it through my crimper to get this same effect.  To get the look of the strips on the bottom I scored some white CS every inch.  I punched out some Lucky Limeade CS with a scalloped circle punch and added the coffee cup from Heart To Heart #1.  The sleeve on the tiny cup is Simply Chartreuse wool felt.

For the next card I stepped it up a notch.

The card base is Crumb Cake (Kaft) card stock.  I used some DSP from Stampin' Up!(Sale-A-Bration pack) for the vertical strips and zigzag stitched over them with a dark brown thread. For the horizontal piece I used a large stitched grosgrain ribbon in Chocolate Chip.  For the medallion I used my new Happiest Birthday Wishes set.  I inked the stamp with markers and then punched it out with a wide oval punch.  I re-inked and re-stamped then cut the presents out and popped then up on foam tape

For my final sample, I turned the sketch on its ear

Its a little hard to see in this picture but I scored a diamond pattern on a 45° angle.  (the large diamonds are an inch wide)  I added half pearls to some of the intersections points.  For the horizontal part I used a satin organdy ribbon and for the focal piece I used Fillable Frames

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Inspired by ...

... a print ad in Martha Stewart Living while I was waiting to pick up the kid car after getting new brakes.  The most beautiful colors of a light aqua and a light beige/tan.  There was a feather in the ad too

Here's what it inspired me to make

 I used Pool Party and Soft Suede reinkers on a baby wipe and carefully played around the edges of some water color paper.  The Soft Suede was too dark initially, so I wiped down some scrap paper until I got about the right hue ... then I went after the WC paper :)

I stamped everything else in Early Espresso and mounted the focal layer on Early Espresso CS.

All paper and ink is from SU!.  All the stamps are from Happy Trails [PTI]

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Birthday SFYTT

Today the May Sketch For You To Try comes out.  After all the heavy lifting this week moving my eldest back home after her first year of college, I needed a crafty break

Here's what I did:

 I used a lot of stamp sets on this one: On My Couch and OMC Additions, Lighten Up, and Happiest Birthday Wishes (a new one I just got in my Stampin's Up order)

 I loved the font used on "Birthday" in this stamp.  I also colored in the letters to set them off a bit using YG93 Copic sketch marker.  I also did a little ombre look with the baby wipe technique.  Only used one color and allowed it to go from dark to light .

Colors are Real Red, Island Indigo, Pool Party and Ripe Avocado

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OWH Sunday Sketch

I used this week's Sunday Sketch to make notes for my college girl and her friends ... only 2 weeks of school left so I wanted to wish them luck on finals.

Colors are Crumb Cake and Early Espresso
Stamps are BB:Newsprint and You're My Type

I used one of the SU! Edgelits to make the asymmetric border on the top and bottom.

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Stamp Camp is gonna be a dirty one this month

Dirty as in inky fingers ... geez! :)

Here are are the 2 cards we'll be making next week

 I haven't made a baby wipe card in a long time. I was hoarding my water color paper because I thought it was getting discontinued.  Then I found out it was just getting repackaged ... Now I am using it up :)

So we'll play with re-inkers and baby wipes and make beautiful, dreamy backgrounds

I also promised the stampy crew clean, simple and bright colors ... I think the flower card fits the bill on that

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Unicorn Award

Ok, so without going into great gory engineering detail ... funny work story.  A guy I work with (Justin)  did something that made a task a lot easier for one of my team members.  When I told Dan about it his eyes bugged out ...  A LOT.  So apparently during a status update  telecon I made a comment that Dan's eyes bugged out like he just discovered the last unicorn.  Now I don't remember saying that, but it does sound like something I would say, being a lover of simile and all.

So last week I saw Justin and he thanked me ... because the guys he works directly with were on the telecon ... and thought the comment was hysterical ... and gave him a Unicorn Award certificate.  I haven't seen it but I snickered (loudly, maybe even snorted a little) when he told me.  Then he said he finds random unicorn bookmarks and paraphernalia that just gets anonymously left on his desk.  So now Justin is the proud owner of a unicorn collection, something he never dreamed of or wanted.

I feel that since I inadvertently set these things in motion, I ought to be a part of the collection making :)

The unicorn is a digi stamp that my stamping buddy Tara had.  She printed then asked if she could color it after I told her the story.  Since she has mad coloring skillz and a love of all things Stickles, I said sure.  Love how the little glitter and rainbow fella turned out :)

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April SFYTT

So I haven't done a whole lot of crafting lately.  I just seem to be in a slump and don't feel creative at all.  Since even making a card seems like a challenge, I thought I'd continue the yellow theme because yellow is a challenge for me too.

Here's what I made for this months Sketch For You To Try

I like the idea of dots so went with the Swiss Dots CB embossing folder and Polka Dot Basics stamps set.  The colors are Soft Suede and Delightful Daffodil.  The floral stamp set is PTI's anniversary set Pretty Peony.

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