Pocket Sketch Challenge

I liked this cute little sketch from the Pocket Sketch Challenge, even though I did have to adjust my measurements to our metric sizes!

I chose the cute sentiment from the Going Global stamp set and went with the lovely bright and cheerful Real Red to really show it off for Valentine's Day.  I sponged a sheet of Going Places DSP to add some colour to match.  I stamped the background with the cute little heart stamp from the Perpetual Birthday Calendar stamp set.

Up close you can see the red glimmer paper I used for the horizontal strip, and punched a small heart out of it to accent the sentiment.  The heart is from the Owl Builder Punch and is just the right size.

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Monique

Going Global Father's Day

More new toys arrived for me recently and I had a chance to play with them on the weekend, this sketch from Create with Connie and Mary Challenge inspired my first inking up of one of my new stamp sets. 

I also got take the coordinating Embossing Folder out for a spin too, after running a piece of Crumb Cake cardstock through the Big Shot with it I sponged all over it with Soft Suede.  The added strips are from Going Places DSP stack available in the Occasions Catalogue, I like that they overhang the first layer.  The stamped globe and sentiment are from the coordinating Going Global stamp set.  I have to hand it to Stampin' Up! this year, there are some great suites of coordinating products and a number even have coordinating Sale-A-Bration items you can earn for free, like The Sky Is The Limit which I have used recently. 

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Monique

More Botanical Blooms

I saw this sketch at the CASE This Sketch challenge and thought it would indeed be a challenge so decided to stretch myself a little and give it a go.

You know how sometimes you have a gem of an idea in your mind, and then your creativity just flows and you pull it off perfectly? Well this was an experience like that, and it doesn't come often!  It started with the long leaf framelit to cut the vellum into the two pieces, then adding the washi tape to hide the adhesive I used to attach it to the card. The best part about the Vellum is that it is one of the coordinating Sale-A-Bration products that you can earn for free! From there I had to use Blackberry Bliss as one of the flower colours, and I think it contrasts so beautifully with Crushed Curry so I just started to layer the flowers until I got them how I liked them.  I decided to colour the "stem" of the leaf cut out both to highlight it and again to cover some of the use of adhesive.  

This is a close up of the flowers to show how I added some of the amazing new Wink of Stella Glitter Brush to add subtle sparkle to the edges of some of the flowers, the photo really doesn't do it justice, it is such a pretty soft shimmer.  Finally I added a metal rimmed pearl to the largest flower and more simple pearls to the smaller flowers. I am so happy with how this card evolved and came together.

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Monique