Friday, March 1, 2013

thinking of you in blue

Happy Friday, to you!  I hope this week has been inspirational.  If not, grab a coffee/latte/tea/coke, whatever the beverage of your choice.  The talented Tammy F. from the Sketch Frenzy Friday, has a fun and creative sketch for you to try this week.  Here is her sketch:


For those of you who visit, know that I trade shapes for shapes.  This sketch has four squares clustered together.  And, I didn't use four squares.  Here is my card:


The card base is very vanilla cardstock.  The main panel is pool party textured cardstock.  I just love this paper.  It's new and in the mini catalog.  You can sand the cardstock to reveal the white core.  Very fun!  I used my framelets to cut the basic black cardstock.  I inked the text background stamp: En Francias in VersaMark ink and used white embossing powder and heat embossed the text.  I used my trio blossom hand-held punch to create the blossoms.  I used First Edition DSP and a scrap piece of the pool party I used for the main panel.  I added a pearl center.  For the fourth 'square' I opted to create a sentiment banner.  Can you guess, that I just love these?!  I cut a scrap piece of very vanilla cardstock to 1/2" wide.  I stamped the sentiment from the Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set in basic black classic ink.  I used a square hand-held punch to create the banner end.  I used my sewing machine to secure the banner to the decorative label piece.
I hope we have inspired you to play along with us this week @ SFF.

6 comments:

Deb said...

Wow! I love the look of the white embossing on the black against the Pool Party! Gorgeous! And those layered flowers are pretty, too!

inkedx2 said...

Great card! Love the colors you used!

Meihsia Liu said...

Such an elegant card, Sharon. I love the beautiful color and flowers. Love the new look of your blog, too. ^_^

barb said...

Simply gorgeous. I love all of the details on your card and the color choices you made. so pretty

Patrice Herrera said...

Man oh man is this a pretty card or what! The colors are spectacular together, and the flowers are just right! Love this card!

Kim Innis said...

Wonderful interpretation of the sketch. Love the layered flowers against the text background!