Greeting Card Wednesday
Happy Wednesday!
I am back. My full time job was very busy in January and February leaving me little time to craft and even less time to blog. The job has calmed down. No more six days work weeks, so I am focusing on how I would like to grow this blog. I am starting off with Greeting Card Wednesday.
Greeting Card Wednesday is my commitment to post a new greeting card each Wednesday for the rest of 2018. I will still be doing the Cas(e) this sketch (CTS) challenge, but not necessarily every week will be challenge inspired greeting card.
This week is the CTS challenge number #261, which was a retro sketch challenge. The sketch originated on there blog at #93. I really liked this sketch, and had several ideas pop into my head immediately. I had also just received an order from Stampin' Up, so I just had to play with those new items.
I love how this card came out. It was super fun to make and I made it in very little time. The lavender sprig is a multi-layer stamp that was very fun to stamp out. I am definitely going to stamp out more of these. The outline is one stamp and then the color pieces are each their own stamps. This makes using a lot of different colors very easy, because you don't have to worry about inking to much of the stamp.
The marble background stamp is very lovely. I used Blushing Bride to stamp the background on Very Vanilla cardstock. Looks like designer paper, doesn't it. I also stamped out the lavender sprig on the same cardstock. I love Very Vanilla cardstock. It is the perfect shade of cream. The marble background is cut to 4x5 1/4 inches, and the mirror gold is the full 4 1/4x5 1/2 inches. The gold strip is 4x1/2 inches. I taped it onto a card base that is also 4 1/4x5 1/2 inches. I like the inside of my card to be white, so I typically always use a white card base. I think this card came out very elegant and pretty.
I didn't add a sentiment on purpose. My style is to have the sentiment inside of the card instead on the outside. This allows me to use the card for several different occasions. It also encourages people to open the card to see what is on the inside. This card could be used for so much. It can be an easter, birthday, anniversary, sympathy, wedding, or thank you card and so much more. I do want to try to utilize some of my sentiments stamps more, so I am thinking of challenging myself to use them in an unusual way. Such as a background instead of a focal element.
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Very pretty take on the sketch!
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