Are you ready for another one of Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenges? Here's this weekend's. And here's my card using Melanie Muenchinger's (for Gina K. Designs) new set, Jumping For Joy.
I stamped this for my Kindergartener that will have her graduation ceremony next week at school. When I asked her to pick out her favorite of these precious little animals, she chose this sweet seal. Oddly enough, I couldn't make up my mind which was my favorite animal in the set and was torn between the zebra (my older daughter's favorite) and this seal!
I stamped her with Ranger's Adirondack Espresso dye ink on this solid paper from BasicGrey's Sugared 6x6 pad and colored her with Copic markers in W1, W2 & W5. She was cut out with Spellbinders Nestabilities Classic Circles die (small set) and matted with the Classic Scalloped Circle (small set). The circles are popped up on dimensional foam tape and tied with Stampin' Up's Chocolate Taffeta ribbon.
That sweet sentiment is part of the one in the set that says "Hope you make a big splash" -- I just inked and stamped a portion of it. I thought it would be appropriate to give my daughter before her big Kindergarten graduation program! These papers include her favorite colors: pink & yellow!
The card base is Stampin' Up's Chocolate and some pink Making Memories brads accent the bottom right corner. Some white machine stitching was added around the outside edges . . . unfortunately, it's not showing up much.
I hope you'll check out this new stamp set, along with the others that were released this week at Gina K. Designs and also the blogs of these wonderful ladies, to see the samples they've created: Beate, Cambria Turnbow, Charmaine Ikach, Jenn Balcer, Laurie Schmidlin, Lori Craig and MaryJo Albright.
Enjoy your weekend!
