Are you ready for another weekend sketch challenge from Beate? Here's this week's:
Here's my sample that uses that pretty pink paisley piece I showed you last night:
All colored cardstock is Stampin' Up and all ink is Ranger Adirondack dye ink. In addition to the Paisley backgrounder (Pink Sherbet ink on Pretty in Pink cardstock), I also used Scalloped Lace (Willow ink on Celery cardstock), Climbing Floral (Cloudy Blue ink on Bashful cardstock), Geometric Flowers 2 (Lemonade ink on Banana cardstock).
If you are not familiar with background stamps, check out my tutorial below on how I use them.
Karen Lockhart's Roses & Daisies La Fleur Couture is unmistakable Lockhart style -- everyone recognizes it when they see these crazy but elegant concoctions of flowers, leaves, fruit and vegetables turned into high fashion! This is the first one I fell in love with and purchased. It was stamped with Adirondack Pitch Black ink on Neenah Classic Solar White cardstock and colored with these Copic markers:
No, your eyes aren't fooling you, there are two cards ... we'll get to the other one in a minute!
The image was cut with Spellbinders Nestabilities Classic & Scalloped Petite Ovals and then airbrushed with B00-Frost Blue; it is popped up on dimensional foam tape:
Yellow Copic Spica Glitter Pen accents the dress and pink accents the roses. I used Copic C1 for the shadow behind the dress.
The scalloped border was punched with Fiskars' new Threading Water border punch. I'm sorry I don't know where these are available yet -- I'm the lucky girl who won one from Kelly Grundhauser's blog giveaway a few weeks ago! So go on over to visit her and tell her how jealous you are! ;)
I finished off my card with my favorite sentiment -- Karen Lockhart's Thanks a Bunch.
I usually stamp two of whatever image I'm working with -- just in case I mess up one, I have a backup ready to go! This time I didn't mess up and decided to quickly color the second image and use the scraps left over from the card above for an additional one:
The dress is colored the same way, but with an R81-Rose Pink airbrushed background. Card base is Papertrey Ink's Stampers Select White notecard.
My friend, Cindy, showed a cool thing she does, that I tried on these cards. Put strips of leftover cardstock on the inside of your card, to dress it up, too. I also stamped the same dress in light Pink Sherbet ink. The black card above also got a blue strip on the inside:
Nice touch, isn't it? Don't forget the envelope:
Check out the samples these wonderful bloggers made for this sketch: Cambria Turnbow, Charmaine Ikach, Jenn Balcer, Laurie Schmidlin, Lori Craig and MaryJo Albright -- and if you play along this weekend, be sure to let me know so I can check it out!
If you can stand just a couple of more photos, I'll show you how lovely the Spring Texas weather can be -- last night out my front and back doors:
No, that's not snow -- it's hail! Thank goodness we only got pea to marble sized; some areas got golfball to softball sized and a tornado touched down in the area! Personally, we got about 65mph winds and gushing water was coming up over our sidewalks, into the yard -- the streets were a little backed up and flooding for a while! If you need a good deal on a new/slightly hail-damaged car, I think there will be lots of sales over the next few months -- come on down!
I'll be back on Sunday with another Dirty Girl Challenge!
