Tricia's Stamping Creations: Crafty Challenge August Blog Hop Sketch Challenge

Monday, August 21, 2023

Crafty Challenge August Blog Hop Sketch Challenge

Welcome to the Crafty Challenge August Blog Hop as we explore this month's Sketch Challenge. Our Design Team will be sharing their projects and ideas to help inspire you to create your own beautiful cards this today's sketch. Using sketches to create your card designs is a wonderful way to help spark your creativity.

For my card design today, I chose to use the beautiful Inked Botanicals Designer Series Paper and paired it with images from the coordinating Inked & Tiled stamp set to create a pretty Thank You card. I chose to heat emboss the floral image and sentiment with White embossing powder to help make it pop and added leaves created with the Bough Punch to add some texture and dimension. This lovely clean and simple card design is a great example of how you can use today's sketch to create your own card designs.

Products Used:

Inked & Tiled stamp set (item #161158)

Nested Essentials Dies (item #161597)

Bough Punch (item #157711)

Inked Botanicals 6"x6" Designer Series Paper (item #161157)

Calypso Coral Cardstock (item # 122925)

Calypso Coral Classic Ink Pad (item #147101)

Versamark Pad (item #102283)

Basics Embossing Powders (item #155554)

White 3/8" Glittered Organdy Ribbon (item #156408)

Iridescent Rhinestones Basic Jewels (item #158130)

Sponge Daubers (item #133773)

Stampin' Dimensionals (item #104433)

Measurements:

Calypso Coral Cardstock

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

Sentiment Label die cut with the Nested Essentials Dies

4 Leaves punched out with the Bough Punch

Inked Botanicals Designer Series Paper

Card Front - 5 1/4" x 4", Cut into 3 pieces

- 2" x 4", 1" x 3 1/4" & 3" x 3 1/4"

This clean and simple card design is easy to create and has so many possibilities for embellishing. I cut up the card front into 3 pieces to recreate the sketch and attached the pieces to the card base, leaving a slight border between the pieces to create a contrast with the Calypso Coral card base. The sentiment and floral image have been heat embossed with White embossing powder onto a sentiment label that I die cut with the Nested Essentials Dies. I used a Sponge Dauber and gently added some ink over the embossed images to add a soft shadow and then wiped the excess ink off with a tissue. Using a piece of Glittered Organdy Ribbon, I folded it in half and attached it to the back of the sentiment label. I attached the sentiment label to the card front with Stampin' Dimensionals to pop it up and add dimension to the design. To add some texture to the design, I punched out the two leaves from the Bough Punch twice and then added them so that the stems tucked underneath the sentiment label. To complete the design, I added several Iridescent Rhinestone Jewels for a touch of bling.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. I hope that my card design will help inspire you to give this sketch a try and see what you can create with the supplies in your stash. There are so many wonderful possibilities to explore to spark your creativity.

Please take the time to hop along our blog hop by using the links in the Roll Call List below. We would appreciate it if you would leave us a comment and let us know how our projects inspired you.

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