I played along with the Sketch Saturday Challenge and made a birthday card using snippets of cardstock and designer paper.
The small piece of blue cardstock was in my snippets bin so I die-cut it with a HoneyBee stitched square die, then added a white stitched die-cut circle done with a MFT die. The sentiment is from Sweet 'n Sassy. The banners and bow were white cardstock snippets that I colored with fluorescent Copics and cut with a set of Sizzix birthday dies. I've had that piece of Best Wishes dsp for eons. I bought it when I first began making scrapbooks in the 8x11 size, so it felt good to finally put some of it to use. The final touch was adding some color coordinated gemstones from Gina Marie Designs.
I'm entering this into the Sketch Saturday Challenge #730
We escaped all those torrential downpours and heavy thunderstorms so I'm feeling extremely fortunate. Some folks were not so lucky and got hit hard. Hopefully today will be a better day for everyone.
Thanks for stopping by and make it a great day whatever you do.
Carol
18 comments:
This is a fabulously fun birthday card Carol, glad you escaped the downpours, we have been fortunate in our part of Michigan as well, though HOT!
Thank you for joining our challenge at Sketch Saturday!
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So glad you escaped all the bad weather. Here's looking for sunny skies now!
Great take on the sketch and I do love all that blue. So pretty and just a perfect card for a birthday.
Lynn
So cute.
Stay safe, hope the bad weather is soon over. Your card is gorgeous, love it! My fave colour, too! Hugs, Valerie
Such a beautiful take on the sketch! I love the teeny tiny banners with your sentiment in different shades fo the blue! I always feel good when I can pull out something from my long forgotten stash that I need to use more of! Thanks for the inspiration friend!
Beautiful card Carol, a great take on the sketch. xx
I’m glad to know that the thunderstorm has spared the place where you live, dear friend! And love seeing your interpretation of that sketch, love the geometry and the sweetness. So beautiful in blue white and kraft and those cute little diecuts look really pretty! Well done using your old design paper too, it matches so well the theme!
Sending hugs and love as always by my HOT piece of the world!
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I'm so happy to hear that the thunderstorms has spared the place where you live!
Lovely take of the sketch and well done for using that old DP, it matches perfectly the theme and the colours of your card. Love the blue tones plus white and kraft and those tiny banners and bow are SO cute!
As always sending big hugs and love from my HOT piece of the wold!
Great monochrome card and love the dies,great use of snippets
Carol x
Such a lovely birthday card done in a lovely blue color. Great design, too! Your previous card with the poppy is lovely. And, what a sweet cute gnome card! Happy to hear that you escaped the storms!
Pretty card! Great job with the sketch!
Always fun working to a sketch and you've come up with a super card
So glad you gave us an update on the rain situation....I was wondering how you made out. Your card is just perfect and I love the different color of blues! Doesn't it feel good to pull out that very old paper and put it to use?! Well done, Carol! Wishing you a nice day and keep on smiling! Hugs~
Striking card Carol, great way to highlight the Happy Birthday with the cute banners and like that bow!
Fantastic take on the sketch. Love the monochrome palette and those banners are darling! Thank you so much for sharing with us at Sketch Saturday. Really glad you were safe in the floods, Carol. Lots of dangerous weather around this summer :-(
OH! What a wonderful take on the sketch, love those dies and the monochrome.
Faith x
Oh I do love your take on this sketch Carol! Those itty bitty banners are so cool and festive looking. I also love how you stamped your diagonal layer. A fun card for sure! Hugs, Brenda
Wonderful card with that sketch. Oh all those little die cut pieces that took some time to cut and glue down. Nicely done.
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