I stumbled across a fun card sketch challenge over at the Just Us Girls site. You can see the specific challenge here. They’ve teamed up with Dawn from Wplus9, and the winner of this fun challenge gets 2 stamp sets from Wplus9! Fun times!
I love challenges like this because they force me to do some creative thinking and play with all my supplies. I never know what I might come up with.
And now for my take on the sketch – I wanted something springy and fun but not all yellows and purples and greens. Brown, turquoise and dusty rose? Sure.
The border piece is from one of my favourite Martha punches. For the flower, I used a punch to punch out 5 layers from an old book. The “happy birthday” sentiment is also stamped on that book paper. I really had fun with this card! And I love love love making those book-paper flowers. I’m sorry to say that I don’t have any WPlus9 stamps yet, so I couldn’t work with any in this card.
This is the great sketch that I got to work with and interpret to my heart’s content
Have a go at it and see what you can come up with. There’s a spot to link to your creation on the JUGS site. The deadline is at 9pm EST on Thursday March 11th, 2010.
How sweet is this! Love the unique spring color palette but yes – it does speak spring :-) Nice job with the sketch. Thanks so much for playing along with Just Us Girls this week. We appreciate your participation and support. :-) Hope to see you again next week.
Thanks! I’m so glad I came across your blog!
What a pretty card! Great color combination & your 3-D flower is beautiful! Thanks for playing along with Just Us Girls sketch challenge! Hope you come join the fun on Saturday!
Ohhh! I love book print flowers and that punch too! Your 5 layered flower is a wonderful accent for this card. Thank you for playing in the Just Us Girls sketch challenge this week!
What a cute card! Love that layered flower with the button center!! Great job!