The 2 Sketches 4 You blog is holding is first Design Team call for a 3-month fall design team position. I love doing sketch cards ... and I love their wonderful hand-drawn sketches ... so I thought I would give it a try.
My first card uses Kazan's sketch and the very fun Bird Assortment set by Amy Smyth for Inkadinkado. I love that cardinal and the sort of grumpy look on each bird's face. The birds & sentiment were stamped with black ink and clear embossed.
I also tried out my new Koh-i-noor woodless colored pencils. I love the smooth feel of the pencil in my hand and the way the colors layer and blend. Also, they erase much easier than Prismacolors ... however they also smeared a bit if I rubbed my fingers over them (which easily erased), but that was the only downside. I colored and blended these birds using only the pencils (click on the picture for a close-up look).
The strips of Cosmo Cricket DP were crimped and attached to brown DP. I used my Fiskars threading water punch on the front of the card, and put a strip of brown paper on the inside of the card for contrast. I added two pieces of gold bling to finish the design (dimensions are 4" x 8 ")
The card for Kazan's sketch uses The Breathe Paper collection by Prima and another fun stamp from Inkadinkado.
For the heart shaped element on the sketch, I used two punched hearts to make my larger butterfly. The smaller butterflies are a Martha Stewart punch.
Thanks ladies for these fun & fabulous sketches.
Gorgeous butterfly card!!
Posted by: bunny | July 12, 2008 at 09:52 PM
FABulous cards!!!
Posted by: ~amy~ | July 12, 2008 at 10:43 PM
These are both gorgeous Steph. Best of luck!
Posted by: Pam | July 12, 2008 at 11:18 PM
ooooooooooh! and again i say, "OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHH!!!"
these are stupendously, wonderfullly, amazingly, superbly FABBBBBBULOUS!!!
yummmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!! :)
Posted by: lauren | July 14, 2008 at 07:54 AM
WOW! Fantastic take on the sketches!!! Beautiful, beautiful, but then it always is! :)
Posted by: Kimberly | July 14, 2008 at 04:01 PM