Case This Sketch #89 from "The Mess on my Desk"

Hello everyone!! It has been awhile since I have posted anything. We took a 10 day vacation to Europe and it took me about a week to recover. We spent five nights in London and five nights in Paris. It was a lot of fun and we saw a lot of things. However, as you know, you cannot see everything. I hope to post some photos later on this week.

Today I am playing along with the Case This Sketch blog and created a card for sketch #89. This is the first card I have made in over three weeks! It was nice to get my creativity on again! I made a baby card.

The jumping off point for this card was the stamped giraffe from PTI's "Sweet Baby" set that has been sitting on my desk for two months. When I create a card, I tend to die cut and stamp more images then I need just in case I make a mistake. Often they get thrown in a pile and are never used. Today I challenged myself to make as many cards as I could and the baby card is just one of six that I created. I could probably make at least twenty or more with my "extras."

Since the giraffe was in blue and had a read heart, I chose to use PTI Spring Rain card stock for the card base. To match the little heart, I chose to use a scrap piece of patterned paper that I cut into a rectangle and rounded the edges.

Over this, I adhered two vellum flowers, a red tag and a stamped banner. The banner I adhered with foam tape because I knew I wanted to tuck at least one sequin underneath it.

My last step was to adhere the stamped giraffe using foam tape. I added a twine bow and a googly eye to finish the card off.

I know these are unusual colors for a baby card but I think it came out nice. Sometimes thinking outside of the box can pan out!!

I am proud to say that everything I used on this card with the exception of the card base was a scrap or die cut that was thrown aside. How is that for creativity?

Here is the sketch that I followed:

That is all for today. Tune in tomorrow for another card "from what is on my desk."

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A Simple Card

Happy Tuesday!!

Today was a hot one here. The weather has been so funny lately. Yesterday was cloudy but really cool and today was sunny, muggy and HOT. A good day to stay in and get some stuff done.

Today is going to be a quick share. I created this for three challenges, something I rarely do. Here is my card:

The first challenge was for Curtain Call and I used the colors on my water brushed rectangle that are in the photo below. Aren't they so pretty?

The first thing I did was to stamp the butterfly onto watercolor paper and then heat embossed it using clear embossing powder. I then used PTI Soft Stone, Harvest Gold, Hawaiian Shores and Smokey Shadow stamp pads and a water brush to make the stripes.

I also used the sketch below, as well as the actual card, as my inspiration on how this card would be put together. Both are from PTI's Newsletter in an "Inspiration Archive" article.

The background paper was stamped with a polka dot stamp from PTI. I have to admit that it is not perfect but since this was my fourth attempt at stamping it, I kept it. It irks me to waste paper!!

I added a few elements that were not in the sketch. Instead of a circle, I chose the butterfly shape. I also decided to use foam adhesive to pop up the sentiment banner, giving me room to over lap some enamel dots.

The last element I added was the border at the bottom of the painted rectangle. The rectangle I cut was not big enough so I had to figure out a way to have the bottom stick out. I die cut a piece of Aqua Mist card stock with a PTI "Journal Cards Border" and then trimmed it to fit the rectangle. It was perfect!!

I am also entering this card into Simon Says Stamps Wednesday's "Anything Goes" Blog challenge.

I thank you for stopping by!!

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