Tricia's Stamping Creations: Stamping With Friends June Blog Hop Birthday Sketch Challenge

Saturday, June 5, 2021

Stamping With Friends June Blog Hop Birthday Sketch Challenge

Welcome to the Stamping with Friends June Blog Hop Sketch Challenge as we showcase Birthday cards to help inspire you. Sketches are a wonderful way to help spark your creativity and provide you with a road map to help you with your design layout. Each of us have chosen our own sketch for this challenge to create a birthday card design. I hope you enjoy the projects we have to share.

The sketch I have chosen for today is one created by fellow Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, Dawn Griffith. She has a wonderful gallery of sketches here. I decided to use the retiring Fine Art Floral Designer Series Paper with the retiring Happy Thoughts stamp set, to create my card design. Both of these products are from the January-June 2021 Mini Catalog and are available until June 30th or while supplies last. As you can see, I made changes to the sketch to come up with the finished design. The great thing about sketches is that it provides you with a basic road map and you can alter and change different elements to create your own version.

Products Used:

Happy Thoughts stamp set (item #154507) Retiring

Fine Art Floral Designer Series Paper (item #154558) Retiring

Layering Circles Dies (item #151770)

Painted Texture 3D Embossing Folder (item #154317)

Flirty Flamingo Cardstock (item #141416)

Petal Pink Cardstock (item #146985)

Merry Merlot Cardstock (item #146979)

Basic White Cardstock (item #159276)

Versamark Pad (item #102283)

Metallics Embossing Powders (Copper, Gold Silver - item #155555)

White 1/4" Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon (item #151326)

Stampin' Dimensionals (item #104430)

Measurements:

Flirty Flamingo Cardstock

Card Base - 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" (Scored at 4 1/4")

Panel - 2 3/4" X 4"

Petal Pink Cardstock

Card Front Layer - 5 1/4" x 4" Embossed with the Painted Texture 3D Embossing Folder

Merry Merlot Cardstock

Matte Layer - 2 3/4" x 4 1/4"

Scalloped Circle die cut with Layering Circles Dies

Fine Art Floral Designer Series Paper

Focal Panel - 2 1/2" x 4"

Basic White Cardstock

Oval Circle die cut with Layering Circles Dies

White Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon

3 Pieces - approx. 4 1/2" each

For this card design, I chose the colors from the Fine Art Floral Designer Series Paper. I wanted to add some texture to the background layer so I embossed it with the Textured Paint 3D Embossing Folder. Instead of using strips of cardstock, I decided to use the Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon and layered them on the Flirty Flamingo cardstock before adhering it to the background layer. For the focal layer, I liked the way the Merry Merlot cardstock made the designer series paper pop and it added a nice contrast to the card design. I added it onto the card front with Stampin' Dimensionals over the Flirty Flaming layer. To complete the card design, I heat embossed the sentiment onto the Basic White circle with Gold embossing powder and attached it to the Merry Merlot scalloped circle. I attached it to the bottom left corner of the card front.

Creating this card design was so much fun and I loved that the sketch took all the guess work out of designing the layout of my card. This sketch can work with a variety of products to create designs for all occasions. The Happy Thoughts stamp set has wonderful sentiments for a variety of occasions and I love the fonts in this set. When you combine it with the beautiful designs in the Fine Art Floral Designer Series Paper, you have the opportunity to create so many wonderful cards to send to friends and family.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. I hope that my birthday card design will inspire you to explore the world of sketches to help you create your own amazing projects. Sketches are a wonderful way to break out of your creative comfort zone. Don't forget to check out the Last Chance Products Sale on retiring products from the January-June 2021 Mini Catalog. It's a great time to stock up on your favorite products before they disappear.

Now it's time to visit Mary's wonderful blog and see what she has created with this sketch challenge. Just click the Next button below to visit her blog. We would love it if you would leave us a comment and let us know what you liked about our projects. I hope you enjoy the rest of our blog hop.

Roll Call List

Linda A Moore (Moore Fun Stamping)

Tricia Butts (Tricia’s Stamping Creations)

Mary Knabe

Tracie St-Louis (For The Love Of Stamping)

Donna Schnees (Cupcakes and Lattes Stampers)

Sharon Jacobs (Stamped INKspired Designs)

If you live in the U.S. and do not have a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, please contact me and I would be happy to help you with your creative projects. You may also visit my Online store to place your order and have it shipped to you.