Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenge #55 is a long one:
I really wanted to use this sweet new Lockhart Ornament Angel but needed my main panel to be a longer rectangle to fit the sketch. Then I spied the new Itty Bitty Ornaments . . .
. . . and decided to put the two together, to make a busy little Angel (a Stamp-A-Ma-Jig is your best friend)!
Angel and ornaments were stamped with Tsukineko Tuxedo Black Memento ink onto Poison Ivory shimmer cardstock and colored with these Copic markers and Copic Spica glitter pens:
I used some Poinsettia Dew Drops to place onto three of the Angel's ornaments (sorry, I cut one off in this photo!):
The Angel panel (5-1/2" x 1-7/8") is matted with Prism Blush Red Dark cardstock and mounted to beautiful Starry Night paper from Webster's Pages Winter Wonderland Collection. Card base is also Blush Red Dark, measuring 9" x 3-7/8" so the card will fit in a standard #10 business letter envelope.
Now, on to the sentiment part of this sketch . . . I looked through my JustRite Stampers inventory, remembering a new Christmas Stamp Ensemble, and found this beautiful round "Season's Greetings" that I decided to make into an ornament!
I used VersaMagic Tea Leaves to ink the entire circle, then I used Spanish Olive to ink the outer edge, to give it some depth. This set measures approximately 3-1/4" in diameter, if you use the outer border (which I didn't use here) and the inner circles are about 2-1/4". They fit onto this beautiful 3-1/4" Harmony Classic Circle III wood block that is sold separately from the Christmas Ensemble:
These new JustRite products are available for preorder at the JustRite site and should be shipping mid-September. Or you can get them through some of your favorite online retailers: Flourishes & Taylored Expressions.
Spellbinders Nestabilities Classic Circles (middle size in the large set) was a perfect fit to cut out this sentiment. For the topper of my ornament, I crimped some gold metallic cardstock, scallop cut the bottom and adhered it to the top of my sentiment circle.
I couldn't find any ornament hangers without having to go to the attic (and I definitely wasn't going up there in this 90-degree August heat!), so I bent a paperclip into the shape I needed and threaded it through a hole in the top of the ornament!
Some more Poinsettia Dew Drops accent the cardfront.
To see some more inspiration for this sketch, please visit these talented stampers' blogs: Beate, Cambria Turnbow, Charmaine Ikach, Jenn Balcer, Laurie Schmidlin, Lori Craig and MaryJo Albright. I hope you'll try the sketch this long holiday weekend and enjoy it!
