I love working with sketches -- half the work is already done for you and it makes it much simpler (and a lot less time!) to create. This is Beate's weekend sketch -- you can give it a try over the weekend and post your creation back to Beate's blog post (she usually draws a winner from the entries and gives away some fun stuff!). Here's the sketch she created for you this week:
And here's my sample:
I started by stamping the Ellen's Stamp of the Month, Lockhart Warm Socks in Brilliance Graphite Black on Curious Iridescent Cryogen White cardstock and colored the quilted background with Copic Sketch markers #YG13, B32 & YR04. I stamped the image again on a small blue & green patterned paper from BasicGrey's Gypsy collection and cut out the socks. The socks were then layered over the stamped cardstock piece I had colored. Here's a closeup for you:
I darkened the toes, heels & tops of the socks with the blue Copic marker mentioned above. The Lockhart sentiment (which it appears Ellen is sold out of at the moment but check back -- these are usually replenished pretty quickly) was partially inked and split up on the cardfront.
The sock image is mounted on dimensionals to a piece of Prismatics Intense Kiwi that was cut with Spellbinders Nestabilities Classic Rectangles. Something I love about the textured Prism cardstock is that the edges flatten out when embossed with the Nestabilities -- gives a cool two-textured effect on the one piece of cardstock! Two Plumeria Dew Drops accent the piercing I did across the top of the green panel.
A panel of Prismataics Intense Orange was adhered to a PaperTrey Ink Stamper's Select white card base and another pattern from Gypsy tops that.
Be sure to check out more samples made for Beate's sketch on the blogs of these fabulous crafters: Beate, Cambria Turnbow, Charmaine Ikach, Jenn Balcer, Laurie Schmidlin, and Lori Craig.
Have a wonderful weekend . . . I plan on doing some more stamping and may even get together another Copic tutorial for you! I've also updated the two CHA project posts below with more photos.
