Wonderful You

Howdy!  I'm glad that you could stop by today and have a look around.  I really do love to paper craft, and being on different design teams actually gives me an excuse to be in my craft room.  I mean that I would already be in there, but now I have an legitimate reason. (smile)

The talented Jennifer, is the creator of this week's sketch over @ Sketch Frenzy Friday.  And this week's sketch is easy to work with.  I had fun making  this card.  Here is Jennifer's sketch:

I am a big fan of using what you have.  I'm also a fan of mix and match.  I believe all paper lines have potential to wow ya!  One of the requirements of playing along with Sketch Frenzy Friday, is that you use Stampin' Up!products.  So, in my usual fashion, I mix and matched different DSP collections.  I really loved the polka dot pattern paper from Berry Blossoms DSP.  And the loved the large yellow medions from the Flirtatious DSP.  So, I used scrap pieces of each.  There is a beautifully-font, word stamp set from the new occasions mini catalog: Loving Thoughts.  So, I combined the three and here is what I came up with:

I used some of the new bakers twine and tied a button to the bow.  I added a left over crochet flower and yellow rhinestone brad.  Elegantly simply.  Now, head over to Tammy F.'s blog, and continue with the blog hop. 

Simply Beautiful SK

I'm super late at posting this, and I apologize for that.  Work has been a bear, and I haven't been home all week.  My husband and I finally got to see each other last night, so we went out to dinner.  Dinner was very nice and we got to actually talk to each other.  How wonderful.  

The wonderfully talented ladies over at Sketch Frenzy Friday, have a very user friendly sketch challenge. Jennifer brought us this sketch, and the beautiful part is that you can basically use anything you have on hand, and it will be wonderful!  You can easily stamp on the middle piece if you are needing to ink up a special stamp set, or just use pattern paper!

Here is the sketch:

Here is my card:

See what I mean?  I used two scrap pieces of DSP and a few scrap pieces of solid cardstock, and Viola!  I stamped a simple and pretty fond sentiment, added a few half faux pearls and look how pretty!  The only trick here is to use a light pattern paper as your larger piece, so when you stamp right on the DSP, you can actually read it.  If your larger pattern paper is either dark or too busy, the words get lost.  And when you put the busier/vibrant pattern paper as your smaller piece, it helps showcase the colors/design.

I hope that you can play along with us, and who knows, you may be our next winner!