Thursday, April 11, 2013

DS97: Here For You!

Happy Thursday everyone!

I hope you're having a wonderful week so far. I managed to haul my butt to the gym yesterday morning at 5am! Sounds crazy right? The hard part is getting out of bed and getting going. Once I'm there, I'm fine. Thankfully, this morning, the weather was very mild (50deg F) so it wasn't too bitter cold. In fact, I could hear the frogs and birds chirping at that time, so it certainly felt like a Spring morning!

Well, it's finally Thursday again and you know what that means....it's time for another Deconstructed Sketch!

DS97a_BySandraMacLean
It's a fun sketch that requires just a small stamp or sentiment. I thought I'd use a silhouette stamp for my card. The Here For You stamp set from There She Goes has some great silhouettes in it, like this one, and some beautiful sentiments. To make this card I pulled papers from MME's Lost and Found 3 collection and some Bazzil Basics cardstock in Bitter Chocolate. I thought it would have a softer feel to the card if I used dark brown cardstock instead of black. I switched out the rectangle focal panel with the oval one and inked it up with various Distress Inks. Then I stamped the image in black StazOn ink over the top of the sponged background. The flower was cut using PTI Beautiful Blooms #1 dies and I added one of their buttons to the center of it. The sentiment was stamped onto some transparent paper so it would allow the silhouette to show through. The scalloped border was cut using a punch from EK Success. Then I just added some matching ribbon and some little pearl adhesives.

Here's the actual sketch, DS97, for this week.


And you should definitely check out what the girls did with this sketch too...I LOVE seeing their take on it each week!


I hope you can play along with us this week! Can't wait to see what you do with it! 

Have a great weekend everyone!


 {Supplies}
{Stamps} There She Goes 'Here For You'
{Papers} Bazzil Basics - Bitter Chocolate, PTI Kraft Cardstock, Canson Manga Cardstock, PP - MME's Lost and Found 3 collection
{Inks} StazOn 'Jet Black', Distress Inks 'Tea Dye, Vintage Photo and Walnut Stain'
{Access} Spellbinders Oval Nesties, PTI Beautiful Bloom, PTI Button, Jute Twine, EK Success Edge Punch, Ribbon, Adhesive Pearls, Sponges, Sewing, Dimensionals

8 comments:

  1. What a beautiful interpretation of this sketch. Love the color combination you chose as well.

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  2. Wow! This is seriously gorgeous. I LOVE the wonderful color palette you used and oh my is that silhouette stamp so pretty. Amazing!!

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  3. Sandra, this is gorgeous! Your stamp and papers go so well together. And you know that I just LOVE your stitching. You are a dedicated woman to be at the gym at 5am.

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  4. Beautiful Card. The stamp is nice and the colour combination goes very well. The ribbon is pretty and the stitching is good.

    Zoe
    xxxx

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  5. LOL I'm envious that you can get yourself to the gym! I can easily get up at 5 am but not really motivated to go too far, except the coffee pot! WTG girl!

    Love that sponged background. So warm! Fantastic card!

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  6. LOL I'm envious that you can get yourself to the gym! I can easily get up at 5 am but not really motivated to go too far, except the coffee pot! WTG girl!

    Love that sponged background. So warm! Fantastic card!

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  7. wow! beautiful card - love your take on the sketch, and the pretty colors and stitching.

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  8. You really rocked this sketch, my friend! Love all the hard and soft of this, as well as that vellum overlay.

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