The musings and offerings of a burgeoning greetings master

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Mr Cardmaker is Feeling Sketchy...

Hey there.  I was making a bunch of Autumn themed birthday and thank you cards yesterday, and I decided to toss my cardstock into the mojo Monday and CPS arenas.  For this MOJO210 challenge, I made this--


For this card, I used SU chocolate chip cardstock, and the dp is from Me & My Big Ideas.  The other cardstock is DCWV.  The sentiment stamp is from Inkadinkado, and I used two colors of colorbox ink to ink it up.  Hard to see in the photo, but I also used my sakura glitter pen on the letters.  The pearls and ribbons are from AC Moore's dollar bins.

Then!  I found one of my birthday cards fit the sketch for CPS this week!  What luck!  I made this one--

For this card, I used SU CS for the base, and medalion, and the DP is from M&MBI and SU.  I used a new-to-me Sizzix embossing folder, and my nestabilities dies, as well as a fiskars leaf punch, and a punch from a million years ago for the tiny leaves.  Ink is Colorbox, and the embellies are from AC Moore's dollar bin.. Love that dollar bin!!

I have to say, I find sketch challenges to be sort of tough for me.  I guess I am a bit too literal.  This was a really nice sketch to use, thouigh, and I'm glad I tried it out!  I will have to get more practice!

Thanks for checking it out!
All Best-
Richard

4 comments:

  1. These are great! I'd love for you to join in our Skipping Stones sketch challenge! You don't have to use SSD stamps to play!

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  2. Such fun cards. Thanks for playing Mojo Monday!

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  3. Great cards! I really like the circles on the top of your Mojo card. Such a unique take on the sketch with very pretty neutral colors.
    Love the green pumpkins on the second card and the fun texture in the background.

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  4. You and that dollar bin..lol. You sound like me. I love a good bargain. Your gratitude card is so monochromatic"ish" elegant and the fall card is a fantastic eclectic combination of patterns and textures. Both are really stunners. :D
    Hey, btw...I broke the handle off of my Big Shot yesterday. You'd of thought someone killed my dog the way I reacted. Life without it is so so sad. :( Just reminded me of it when I saw the that great embossing pattern on card 2.
    Relief is in the mail so I hope to be back up and running soon.
    Lisa xx

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