You Are Loved

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

It's another Twinkling Tuesday sketch challenge and Madelynn has an easy one for us this week! Phew! Pop on over to Madelynn's blog, Twinkling Tuesday, to check out the sketch and also check out this week's featured Twinkie - Janna Hull! She IS the queen of sketches!

I'm really excited to show you this card today because I really, really liked how it turned out! I knew I wanted to ink up The Greeting Farm's 'For Someone' set and Madelynn's sketch was a perfect match for it. Now, the sketch shows two rectangles side by side, but Madelynn did give everyone permission to add a front panel to the layout, so I added the circle for a more softer look.

I used my reinkers to color this time and can I just say that there is a BIG difference when using reinkers vs. the back of the ink pad! Whoa! Talk about color intensity! When I use the ink from the back of the ink pad, I usually swish my aquapainter all over it to grab lots of color, but with the reinkers, it's the complete opposite! I just have to take the smallest amount of ink to get a ton of color on the paper. But I will say that I LOVE how vibrant the images look with the punch of color they get now.

Do you see that patterned paper? Isn't it yummy!? It's from K & Company and I found it at Michaels last Friday. I had looked at it a few times before then and decided it was too bright and busy for my liking, but I had just been looking at Kim Teasdale's gorgeous cards that morning and that lightbulb went off again - I can recreate the texture in Kim's cards with this paper! Brilliant! LOL Since I don't have embossing folders to create texture, busy patterned paper will have to do.

I should also mention that I sponged the rectangular panels and then stitched around the edges for added texture. I used a paper piercer for the circle panel because I didn't trust my machine stitching to do a good job of it! :D

Please check out the amazing cards created by the rest of the Twinkling team. Links to their blogs can be found on the left hand side. If you decide to play along, use the keyword MTTSC10 when you upload to SCS or PCP and provide a link to your card on Madelynn's blog so we can all find it later. :D

Tomorrow I have 'almost needs to be sensored' card for you! ;)

Supplies
Stamps: The Greeting Farm 'For Someone'
Inks: StazOn 'Jet Black', Old Olive, More Mustard, Really Rust, Ballet Blue, Cool Caribbean, Sahara Sand
Papers: Canson Watercolor, River Rock, Bazzil cs 'Rain', PP - K & Company 'Que Sera Sera'
Access: Ribbons, paper piercer, bling (from Michaels), sewing machine, dimensionals