Sketch Saturday #755

Welcome back.
It’s Sketch Saturday challenge time, and here is the sketch for the next fortnight.

If you would like an extra challenge to go with the sketch, try a Christmas in July card.

I chose not to do Christmas, but instead I have used some very special Designer Series Paper that only some Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators around the world got as a gift for achieving a sales challenge, and will never be available to purchase. It’s called Countryside Rose Designer Series Paper.
Isn’t it gorgeous?

Of course I love it, since I am a pink and purple girl.
In the background I have stamped some of the Magnolias from the Magnolia Mood stamp set, in Pretty in Pink ink, which has been stamped off onto scrap paper to make it more subtle.
The shapes have been cut with the Nested Essentials Dies, the sentiment is from the Heartfelt Hexagon stamp set, and the beautiful flower is again from the Magnolia Mood stamp set and matching Dies.

I hope you share your take on our sketch at Sketch Saturday, we do enjoy seeing what you have created.
Happy stamping!
Chris

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Sketch Saturday #754

I have some exciting news to share with you today, I am honoured to have been accepted as a member of the Design Team for the Sketch Saturday Challenges, and today is my first post as a member of the Design Team.
This week’s challenge is to choose a previously used sketch, and I have chosen the one below, Sketch 555 from 2019.

I have used the Perennial Lavender Designer Series Paper as a focus for my card today, and the gorgeous butterfly from the Spotlight on Nature stamp set.

The butterfly has been coloured with Stampin’ Blends, in various pinks and purples.

I hope you will come and visit us at Sketch Saturday Challenges, and share your own version of the sketch, we love to see what you have come up with.
Happy stamping!
Chris

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Stampin’ Up! Calming Camellia Sketch Challenge

The Calming Camellia stamp set is the Host set in the upcoming Sale-a-Bration catalogue (January 2022) and just soooooo beautiful! I think I need to add a few more “o” to that soooooooooo. It really is a stunning stamp set, and so I had to get it inky!

I have stamped it in Pale Papaya and combined it with some of the Heart and Home Designer Series Paper. Loving this colour as well, so pretty.
The only way to get this set right now, is for you to join Stampin’ Up! as a demonstrator, and if you are in Australia, I would love to have you in my Stampin family, so reach out to me for more info, or click the link.
The set will be available from the 4th January 2022, with a party or personal order over $500, so start collecting those orders now, and contact me to ask about having an online cardmaking or scrapbook party with your friends and family.
Happy stamping!
Chris

Sketch Challenge

It’s my turn to host the challenge this week at Crafty Boots Challenges, and for the next two weeks my challenge to you, is to use this sketch to make a project:

There are one or two additional rules for our sketch challenge:
  • you can rotate the sketch and you can re size the elements if you wish.
  • do not move the elements around too much, the original sketch layout should still be recognisable.
  • you can use any materials you like to make anything you like, for example, a card, a box top, a gift bag, a scrapbook page, an ATC, an inchie, etc.  Just as long as the original sketch design is obvious in whatever you make.

I have made two cards this week, the first a Clean and Simple card:

and secondly, a more vintage style card featuring some different patterned papers and some lace:

I thought the teddies in this paper series were just too cute, so had to make them in to a card.  For this card I have turned the sketch side on, and used the teddy pattern on the papers to represent the circles of the sketch.  So you can see, there are heaps of ways you can use this sketch, and we would love to see your projects, at Crafty Boots Challenges.

Happy stamping!
Chris