Tuesday, May 24, 2011

PDCC82 & WMSC42

Wow, I can't believe a week has gone by since my last post...last week was crazy for me, for some reason...I even made a card for the My Mind's Eye blog challenge and got too busy to enter it into the contest! :( Oh well, life happens sometimes. Now I'm cranking out cards left & right for card orders - graduation, birthdays, and soon, Father's Day...but this one is a special, once-a-year one...for MY anniversary! On Thursday I will have been married to my lovely husband for 9 years. I hope it isn't sacreligious that I did this, but I'm killing three birds with one stone - The Play Date Cafe Challenge, the Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge AND an anniversary card for my hubby! (We're going out to dinner tomorrow night to a fun & fancy place)

So here are the Play Date Cafe colors for this week: (nice for a masculine card, I thought)



And here is the Waltzingmouse sketch...(a bit challenging for me!)



And here is what I came up with:

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I started with Papertrey's Guidelines Impression Plate and stamp set for the background, and made the circles from PTI's Sweet Love set. I did some sponging on the background to get a more "vintage carpet" feel...finished up with a sentiment from Simple Sentiments (also PTI) and a little grosgrain ribbon under a double banner die cut. Quite time consuming, this sketch, I must say, but fun nonetheless, like card making always is! :) I'll be back later this evening with some teacher thank you cards and the first of my graduation cards. Hopefully I'll get a lot more posts in this week than last week!

Supply list:

Cardstock: Aqua Mist (PTI); Brown Bag (CTMH); So Saffron, Close to Cocoa (SU); other textured turquoise (DCWV)
Patterned Paper:
Stamp Set(s): Guidelines, Sweet Love, Simple Sentiments (PTI);
Ink/Colorants: Brown Bag (CTMH); Chocolate Chip (SU); Yellow Cadmium, Creamy Brown, Chestnut Roan, Dark Brown (Colorbox Chalk Ink)
Embellishments: Desert Sand organdy ribbon (CTMH)
Tools: Guidelines impression plate, Double-Ended Banner die (PTI); 1" and 1-1/4" circle punches (EK Success)

6 comments:

  1. Rachel this is a great use of the colour scheme this week! Fantastic masculine feel, great stamping. Thanks for playing along at the Play Date Cafe :)

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  2. Love the design. Love how you've used the colors :) Just love it to pieces!! Thanks for playing with us at The Play Date Cafe!

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  3. Super fun, Rachel! Great take on both the sketch and our color story! Thanks so much for playing along with us this week at The Play Date Cafe!

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  4. LOVE this--love the sketch and how you highlighted some of the circles with the blue! LOVE it:) Thanks for playing along with us and joining in the fun over at the PDCC:}

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  5. Lovely card Rachel, Great way to high light some of the elements by using dimension. I might have to play along for the first time with this sketch too :)
    Jenny x

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  6. A lovely card Rachel. I'm sorry, but I had to delete your link from the Waltzingmouse Stamps Sketch Challenge as it doesn't contain any WMS images (according to the rules). I love your creativity, and hope that this won't discourage you from playing in the future. You do lovely work!

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