Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenges always provide a nice excuse for me during the week to put aside any work-related stamping and just stamp to my heart's content. So yes, you saw me use this beautiful Bouquet stamp by Lockhart Stamp Co. last week, but I wanted to show you how versatile it is. Last week, I went with a more bold, birthday-celebration look but this week this stamp makes a softer, more romantic appearance:
This was Beate's sketch to follow:
I stamped the bouquet with Brilliance Graphite Black on my favorite white shimmer cardstock and colored it with Copic Sketch markers.
This image was my very first attempt at using Copic's Airbrush System at my Spellbinders training, I mentioned here and promised to share with you. I started with Y00-Barium Yellow around the bouquet and then faded into B21-Baby Blue around the edges. So, of course, in the cross-over I was also left with the yellow fading into a pretty green, then the blue:
The image was cut with Spellbinders Nestabilities Classic Rectangles and matted with Prism Intense Pink cardstock, then a Scalloped Rectangle was cut from the same Sugar Plum (soft pink) card base.
Copic Spica Glitter pens accent the roses and bow. The card base is a Memory Box Sugar Plum notecard, stamped with Cornish Heritage Farms' Scalloped Lace backgrounder in Ranger's Worn Lipstick Distress Ink. I trimmed the background stamp along the bottom edge, following the scalloped lace and then placed some pink Dew Drops in the middle of every other scallop.
A bit of pink crushed velvet ribbon (from Michael's) knotted and pinned finishes off this card.
Be sure to check out the blogs of these wonderful stampers, to see what they came up with for this challenge: Cambria Turnbow, Charmaine Ikach, Jenn Balcer, Laurie Schmidlin, Lori Craig and MaryJo Albright. Then try it for yourself and post it on Beate's blog here -- have fun!
