Tricia's Stamping Creations: Stamping Inkspirations May Blog Hop Sketch Challenge

Welcome to the Stamping Inkspirations May Blog Hop and this month we have a Sketch Challenge to share with you. Our talented Design Team will be sharing their projects and ideas using the sketch below to help inspire you to get creative.

I love creating clean and simple card designs, so this card sketch fits well with my style of card making. For the background, I chose one of the designs from the Heart & Home Designer Series Paper and used the Scalloped Contours Dies to create the layers for the focal image. I love how Navy and White look together and how the Night of Navy cardstock helps make the card design pop. Heat embossing is one of my favorite techniques, so I used it to emboss the leaf image from the Nature's Prints stamp set and the sentiment from the Celebrating You stamp set. I chose to create a Thank You card but you could use this design for a variety of occasions.

Products Used:

Nature's Prints stamp set (item #158793) New

Celebrating You stamp set (item #158028)

Scalloped Contours Dies (item #155560)

Stylish Shapes Dies (item #159183) New

Heart & Home Designer Series Paper (item #157928)

Night of Navy Cardstock (item #100867)

Basic White Cardstock (item #159276)

Versamark Pad (item #102283)

Basics Embossing Powders (item #155554)

Mini Stampin' Dimensionals (item #144108)

Measurements:

Night of Navy Cardstock

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

Medium & Small Scalloped rectangles die cut with the Scalloped Contours Dies

Sentiment Label die cut with Stylish Shapes Dies

Basic White Cardstock

Rectangle Layer - 3 3/16" x 1 7/8"

Heart & Home Designer Series Paper

Card Front - 5 1/4" x 4"

This clean and simple card design is all about the layers. The combination of Night of Navy and Basic White cardstock adds a simply Wow factor to this design with the multiple layers. I just love the beautiful design in the designer series paper for the background and the texture it adds to the card front. The White embossing for the focal image and sentiment tie in with the color combination to finish off the design. I used Mini Stampin' Dimensionals to pop up the sentiment and the middle layer of the focal image to add dimension to the design.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. I hope that my card design will help inspire you to create your own beautiful cards using this sketch. Sketches are a great way to spark your creativity by providing you with a road map to help you get started.

Now it's time to visit Mo's wonderful blog and see what she has created with this month's sketch. Just click the Next button to visit her blog or use the Roll Call List below to find your way. We would appreciate it if you would leave us a comment and let us know what you enjoyed about our projects.

Roll Call List

Angie McKenzie ● Aurélie Fabre ● Leonie Stuart

Karen Egan ● Terry Hamilton ● Rebecca-Jo Unwin

Gez Carpenter ● Tricia Butts ● Mo Rootes

Sue Allen ● Jan Musselman ● Marieke Bart

Jill Chapman ● Annette Ball ● Susan Webster

Karen Henderson ● Teri West ● Linda Moore

Rochelle Laird-Smith ● Jo Blackman ● Vickie Littlewood

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.