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I am just now getting my card finished for last Wednesday's sketch challenge at Splitcoast Stampers. I had started on Thursday, but could not get it together. It probably took me an hour or more to finish it this afternoon.

Lots of layers! Maybe that was the problem. I started with panel # 4. Not sure why but that is just what happened.

The card base is Stampin' Up's Hello Honey card stock. Each panel was made using white card stock. The image was stamped with VersaMark ink and colored with Pan Pastels (Yellow Ochre and Bright Yellow Green). Card stock in Old Olive and Crushed Curry were used as the accent layers. I used two Unity stamps from the sets "Love {Webster's Itty Bitty" and "Your are Enough Raindrops". Two Impression Obsession large background stamps were used -- Rain and Distressed Corduroy. The greeting came from Stampin' Up's set called "Moon Lake".

SC549 -- Lots of Curves

Today's sketch was challenging. Took me a  while to figure out how I wanted to do my cuts and what to use as a guide. Here's a picture of the sketch.

NOW -- My Card

I started with a quarter sheet of natural colored card stock. Using an Impression Obsession background stamp, I clear embossed the whole piece, made my cuts and then used three Memento inks --Summer Sky, Bahama Blue and Danube Blue, to sponge the edges. Using another piece of card stock, I taped all the pieces back together, trimmed to the correct size and added a little more sponging around some of the outside edges. The butterflies were stamped, clear embossed and sponged with Memento Summer Sky and Danube Blue inks on the same card stock, punched out and layered together. The sentiment, from SU Watercolor Trio, was stamped in the Danube Blue ink (same card stock). Both the scalloped oval and the sentiment were sponged using the same ink. The front panel was finally added to the base card (same card stock).

Two Challenges Today

After traveling to Chicago this past weekend, I am way behind in so many things. I finally got a card made this afternoon for two challenges.

 I needed a birthday card for my cousin's husband so that played a big roll in my choices. I wanted to use a piece of designer paper from a new 6x6-inch pad I got last week so that determined the colors I was going to use. I ended up using basic gray for the card base, a light gray for the band and black as my accent color. For a February birthday, I think the colors work especially with all the ice and snow they are having in Middle Tennessee right now. The greeting is from the Stampin' Up set called "Wetlands". The branch die is from Memory Box and the bird is a die from Impression Obsession.  

SC526 -- Wishing You

Today's sketch --

My card --

For today's card I used two Stampin' Up sets--Upsy Daisy and Polka Dot Punches. I used a background stamp from Impression Obsession, inked with Primrose Petal ink on Primrose Petal card stock. Because I wanted to be able to use this card in a number of ways, I chose a greeting from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps set "Sunshine & Flowers".

CAS284 -- Three Balloons

Today we were to visit Tenia Sanders-Nelson's gallery and CASE one of her cards. I enjoyed looking through her gallery and found many cards that I wanted to try; it was hard to have to choose just one. Here is a link to the card I chose called " Hello Balloons Card".

This is the card that I made -- very similar but different.

For my background panel, I used an Impression Obsession cover-a-card stamp called "clouds". I stamped a piece of white card stock using Stampin' Up's retired ink color Brocade Blue. I matted that piece using some black and red card stock, both layers used 1/16" borders. The balloons were cut out of black card stock using a new die from Impression Obsession. I then went back and punched the balloons out using bits of scrap paper.

The "hello" sentiment was cut using one of my first dies purchased from Cuttlebug many years ago. This past week, I came across a new blog to me -- Jennifer McGuire Ink. She has wonderful video covering many topics. I found one showing how to emboss a die cut sentiment with clear embossing powder. I had to try it. Actually this is my second try. It is easy and creates a very unique embellishment. Here is a link to the video.

SC499 -- May You Be Blessed

I have finished my card for today's sketch challenge at Splitcoast Stampers. It was a simple sketch and challenging. I had so many ideas running around in my head that it was hard to focus in on just one.

Here's the sketch--

and this is my card

I used Marina Mist for the base card. On white card stock I stamped the verse which was from the stamp set called "Happy Birthday" from Our Daily Bread Designs. The floral image was from Stampin' Up's set called "Thoughts and Prayers". I colored the stamp with markers -- SU's Marina Mist and Old Olive. Before putting the card together, I stamped the card base with a stamp from Impression Obsession and clear embossed it. For the final touch, I added three little punched flowers with tiny accent pearls in the center of each one.

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Another really cool sketch challenge at Splitcoast Stampers.

Card base -- SU Pool Party card stock stamped with a background stamp from Impression Obsessions. Designer Papers are also from SU. White card stock and Rich Razzleberry CS was used  for layering.

Inks -- SU Pool Party and Rich Razzleberry

Stamp Sets -- SU Wetlands and Fresh Vintage

Ribbon -- SU Pool Party