Feeling Sketchy | Sketch #137

I needed a quick birthday card and had a stamped and watercoloured panel leftover from another project sitting on my desk.

When I need to whip something up fast, I like to play along with a challenge and Feeling Sketchy has this sketch for inspiration.

I made a shaker card using scraps of cardstock and vellum.  I used nesting dies from Spellbinders to create my panel and frame, layering up six frames for dimension.  I find this method is much easier than using foam tape to enclose the shaker material.  My stamped panel was created using a mixture of tiny images from Hero Arts and I used my Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolours.  The Hero Arts sentiment was stamped on vellum with Versamark ink and heat embossed with Ranger Liquid Platinum embossing powder.

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Turtle Soup | Sunday Card Sketch

I'm back with another project for Turtle Soup and this time it's a card sketch.

Here's my take on the sketch- it's a shaker card :-)

I switched my embellishment cluster with the sentiment positions on the sketch.

I used patterned paper from Simple Stories, star dies from Paper Smooches and a sentiment from WPlus9.

Be sure to head over to Turtle Soup to play along.

Feeling Sketchy | Sketch #125

We have a new sketch to play with at the Feeling Sketchy Challenge Blog and our challenge sponsor is Polkadoodles.

Here is the sketch we're playing with.....

I went a bit crazy and created two cards! For this first one I used an image from Polkadoodles and used watercolours to create a shaker cards filled with fine pink glitter and chunkier gold glitter.

I used dies from Spellbinders to create my shaker and starburst embellishment and stamps and a die from Stampers Anonymous and Tim Holtz for my sentiment.  Everything was created from watercolour paper and I used a cheap kid's watercolour palette to colour everything.

My next card is another shaker and I used stamps from Avery Elle, inks from Stampin' Up and a small doily die from MFT.  The shaker is filled with a mixture of sequins from my stash.

 Be sure to head over to the Feeling Sketchy Blog for more inspiration and all the challenge details.

Feeling Sketchy | Sketch #120

It's time for a new sketch at Feeling Sketchy and here is the sketch we're playing with.....

Our challenge sponsor is Polkadoodles.

I found the sketch to be a little bit busy for my usual style, so I decided on a pared back interpretation for my shaker card.  I started with a panel of white cardstock and applied Distress Inks to create a night sky.  

I flicked some water on top to add texture and white spray ink for stars.

I made a circle window for the shaker portion of my card using a circle punch, and then coloured the panel beneath with distress inks.  I added small silver star confetti to the inside of my shaker and some larger star confetti to the front of my card.

The owl and branch from a Hero Arts stamp set were stamped and Copic coloured before being fussy-cut and added to the card front.  I stamped a few extra leaves to fill that space a bit better.  The sentiment was white heat-embossed. 

I added some Glossy Accents to the owl's eyes for extra shine.


For my second card I used a digital stamp from Polkadoodles, printed it on cardstock with my laser printer and then applied Therm-o-Web Gold Deco-Foil using my laminator.  Jennifer McGuire has a terrific tutorial on how to do this here.  Although the image I was using had very thin lines, I was able to apply the foil successfully, but it's hard to see it unless you tilt it towards a light source.  I will be doing this again for sure with thicker images.

 I used patterned papers from Dear Lizzy's Serendipity Collection and added gold embossing to the edges of my card base. 

I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut my sentiment three times.  I adhered them together to make a sturdy one, then gold heat embossed it before adding it to my card. I also used a doily file from the Silhouette store and cut it from one of my patterned papers.

Be sure to visit the Feeling Sketchy Blog for all the DT projects and to get all the challenge details.

Feeling Sketchy | Sketch #112

It's time for a new card sketch at Feeling Sketchy and we welcome back Scrapbook Circle as a Challenge Sponsor.

Hello and welcome to Scrapbook Circle!Ever since I was young, it has been important to me to document the stories of my life. From the time I received my first camera when I was eight years old until now, taking pictures and organizing them to tell stories has been an important part of my life.In 2006 my dear friend, Crystal, and I decided to share our love of scrapbooking with others and we started Scrapbook Circle. It has been such a fabulous adventure to get to share our passion for preserving memories with others. After about a year and a half of running Scrapbook Circle, Crystal decided that she needed to focus more time on her family, so she turned her responsibilities over to me. It is such a blessing to be able to preserve my family’s memories and I’m sure you feel the same way about preserving your memories. I am truly thankful everyday for this wonderful opportunity to connect with others who find preserving their memories as important as I do.  I love this creative journey and I hope you will join me as we learn and grow together.

Lisa Andrews

And now here's the sketch.....

 I took some papers from the "Everyday Circus" Collection by Fancy Pants Designs and created a shaker card using vellum as the window material rather than clear acetate.  

My sentiment is from this set called "Sketchy Banners" by Simon Says Stamp and I heat embossed it with silver and cut it out using the "Sketchy Banners" die set.

And my sentiment continues onto the inside of the card, where I silver heat embossed it on the black card base.

I hope you'll play along with us and be sure to pop over to Feeling Sketchy for more inspiration from the DT and for all the challenge details.

Feeling Sketchy | Sketch #109

It's time for a new card sketch at Feeling Sketchy and as usual we welcome Molossi as our sponsor.

Molossi strive to bring you an online shopping experience where you can relish in a huge range of scrapbooking supplies to compliment your scrapbooking addiction. Here we strive to offer thousands of products including: Albums, Cardstock, Flowers, Bling, Personal Die Cutting Machines, Stickers, Embellishments and plenty more. But it doesn’t stop there, become apart of a scrapping community, enter the stash giveaways and competitions on our Facebook page and/or blog ,  for a large range of page layout ideas, even sign up for our monthly newsletter to stay up-to-date with the scrapbooking world and monthly promotions.
Molossi offer a $30 chipboard and bling pack every month for one of our challenge winners.

This month we are also offering three RAK's as prizes.

Let's get to the sketch.....

Yep, that's right, we can do whatever we like!

I am on a shaker-card kick at the moment and decided to do a simple Christmas card using a stamp and patterned paper from Stampin' Up and dies from Spellbinders.  The sequins were from a cheapy shop and the gold thread from my sewing box.

Be sure to pop over to Feeling Sketchy for more inspiration from the DT and for all the challenge details.

Webster's Pages "Nest" Layout Shares

Webster's Pages have been producing some stunning collections lately and "Nest" is their new gorgeous offering.  I was lucky enough to be asked to use these papers to create samples for Tomorrow's Memories.

Here is my first page- as soon as I saw the sheet of paper covered in doilies I knew I wanted to cut them up!  Here I've used them to mat my photo.  I kept this simple since the papers shine so brightly on their own, but I did add some ink splats here and there.

Here is my next page- back to my usual clean and simple style.  I cut up the journal card sheet to create blocks for my grid. 

I also used some of the vellum sheet to create a shaker box filled with blue and gold sequins in the bottom left hand corner. Please excuse my photo- it was a rushed phone photo!

Last of all I created a pocket page and cut pieces from the vellum sheet to add some transparency.  It looks great hanging up in the shop with the light shining through the gorgeous vellum.  I also created a shaker pocket with gold and silver sequins.  Here is a sneak- to see the whole page, you'll just have to pop in to the shop ;-)

Be sure to pop in to Tomorrow's Memoriesand grab some "Nest" and check out my projects!