With everything to get ready for the holidays I took a break from sketch challenges. Now that things have settled back down a bit I felt like it was time to get back into it. A couple of weeks ago I did Stampin’ Up!s #simplestamping challenge for this month. You can check that out here. This time I’m doing a horizontal sketch challenge from the Paper Craft Crew. Or as they’re calling it PCC410. Here’s the sketch for the challenge…
For my design I started with an idea that popped into my head recently. I was looking at the Paper Blooms Designer Series Paper from the Sale-a-bration catalogue and thought that the blooms would be easy to cut out. So I picked a couple of different designs that would work well with some of the larger blooms.
From there I picked my colour combination. I went with Night of Navy for my card base and Seaside Spray for my other main colour. I also thought it would be nice to throw in a little bit of Rococo Rose. Behind the flowers and patterned paper I decided not to stamp. Instead I used one of the Greenery Embossing folders on the piece of Seaside Spray cardstock. This embossing folder is a mini folder so I had to run it through twice to emboss the whole piece. For whatever reason I haven’t been doing as much with my embossing folders lately so it was nice to get back into it.
Here’s my card…
I love how the embossed Seaside Spray compliments the blooms from the Paper Blooms DSP. The “for you” on the banner comes from the Beauty Abounds stamp set. And I popped it up using some Stampin’ Dimensionals. I also added a few Rhinestone Basic Jewels for the other element of this sketch.
I also wanted to bring the flowers from the outside of the card to the inside of the card. So I stamped a small bloom from the Forever Blossoms stamp set inside using Seaside Spray ink.
This was such a fun horizontal sketch challenge. And I really like how this turned out! You can also check out the rest of the cards for this week’s Paper Craft Crew Challenge (PCC410) here.