Stamping Inkspirations January Blog Hop Sketch Challenge

Welcome to the Stamping Inkspirations January Blog Hop and we are starting off 2025 with a Sketch Challenge to help warm us up. Our wonderful Design Team will be sharing their projects and ideas to help inspire you to explore creating your own beautiful projects using this month's sketch for inspiration. Sketches are a great way to spark creativity, especially if you are struggling to get started. It's like having a road map or a plan that can help prompt your imagination.

I love using sketches as a way to create fun card designs. With Valentine's Day just over a month away, I wanted to show how you can create a beautiful card design without having to do any stamping. Using the sketch layout, I chose to create a bold, bright design using the Full of Life Designer Series Paper with the Mix & Match Ephemera Packs from the new January-April 2025 Mini Catalog. 

Products Used:

Celebrate Love Mix & Match Ephemera Pack (item #164857)

Washes & Florals Tags Mix & Match Ephemera Pack (item #164859)

Full of Life 6"x6" Designer Series Paper (item #163357)

Real Red Cardstock (item #102482)

Basic White Cardstock (item #159276)

Baker's Twine Essentials (item #155475)

Stampin' Dimensionals (item #104430)

Measurements:

Real Red Cardstock

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

Basic White Cardstock

Card Front Background Layer - 5 1/4" x 4 1/4"

Full of Life Designer Series Paper

Card Front Accent Layer: 5" x 4 1/4"

 Cut 1 Strip - 1" x 4 1/4" 

 Tear left side of remaining piece along the 4 1/4" side to create gap between the 2 pieces

Washes & Florals Tags Mix & Match Ephemera Pack

Pink Wash Tag

Celebrate Love Mix & Match

Real Red Heart Die Cut

Red & Pink Floral Die Cut

Red Sentiment Label

This sketch was a lot of fun and I admit it really challenged me to think outside my comfort zone. I recently ordered several of the new Mix & Match Ephemera Packs from the January-April 2025 Mini Catalog and I wanted to explore creating a card design that had no stamping by using different elements from these packs. For my background design, I chose to use one of the patterns from the Full of Life 6"x6" Designer Series Paper and I loved the contrast of the bold, vibrant colors against the Basic White background layer. I chose one of the tags from the Washes & Florals Tags Mix & Match Ephemera Pack for my focal layer and added several elements and a sentiment label from the Celebrate Love Mix & Match Ephemera Pack to create the focal design. I loved how the different elements coordinated to have it all come together. For the twine and bow element, I wrapped a piece of White Baker's Twine around the card front twice and tied a bow on the right side near the edge. I made sure that the twine was placed about halfway across the card front and then added the focal tag over the top using Stampin' Dimensionals, so that the bow was against the right edge of the tag. I chose not to add any bling, instead letting the bold colors and the design elements shine for this design. 

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog. I hope that my card design will help inspire you to give this Sketch Challenge a try to create your own beautiful projects. There are so many wonderful options to explore to help spark your creativity.  

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

Roll Call List

 Mo Rootes  ●  Karen Henderson  ●  Aurélie Fabre

Annette Ball  ●  Teri West  ●  Jan Musselman

 Tricia Butts  ●  Leonie Stuart  ●  Judith Henderson

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. 

Until Next Time

Happy Stamping,

Tricia Butts
Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator

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