Wow, it's been all week since I posted something -- sorry about that! I've been busy stamping for deadlines and I hope to be able to show you some of those things soon! How do you like this long, skinny sketch Beate put together for her Weekend Sketch Challenge today? Lots of neat possibilities! Here's what I came up with:
I was excited to get my new Spellbinders MegaNestabilities Long Scalloped Rectangles this week, and knew they'd be great for this sketch. Here, I used the largest of the Small set, which is 5.75" at the widest point (My card turned out about 6.25" x 3.25". I suppose I'll be making an envelope for it, LOL!). All papers used are from BasicGrey's new Cupcake collection.
I popped up the squares on the left (cut with Spellbinders Nestabilities Classic Squares) and added some beautiful bling Gemstone Crystals to each corner. <== Check those out ... Ellen has a bunch of new colors of crystals in the store. The smallest ones in the sets are the same size as A Muse's Creative Candy Mini Dot Twinkle Stickers and then there's a larger size in the set, too (I used the larger ones here).
The popped up squares allowed space for a paper clip (this one is from a Spare Parts Alpha Clip by The Paper Studio that already had a mounting on it, so I just glued the Inchie to the mounting) to attach and hold this birthday Inchie that can be used as a bookmark or perhaps an embellishment for a birthday scrapbook page!
The Inchie is made from that wonderful new white matboard I've been using. I stamped part of the Best Cupcake image directly on the matboard with Ranger's Adirondack Pitch Black ink and then colored it with these Copic markers:
I just dotted the markers onto the matboard to create the confetti background. The Inchie is matted with Spellbinders' smallest Nestabilities Classic Scalloped Square from the large set -- it fits the 1-inch matboard square perfectly. Another blue gemstone crystal tops the cupcake and a bit of Wright's yellow rick-rack finishes it off:
I hope you'll try this sketch this weekend and check out other samples made by these talented ladies: Beate, Cambria Turnbow, Charmaine Ikach, Jenn Balcer, Laurie Schmidlin, Lori Craig and MaryJo Albright.
FYI note: I've changed the commenting on my blog -- now you don't have to verify and type in the Captcha letters. I know how those can sometimes be a pain to read and type correctly, so we'll try this for a while!
