The Weekend Sketch Challenge / Girl Fridays are back . . . yay! We all missed having a regular get together on Friday mornings to share our sketches with you all, so we talked super-busy Beate into bringing them back. There will be a few changes, though, and we'll let you all know about those soon. Nothing will change for you, though . . . every Friday morning at 8:30am CST you'll get a sketch that you can try out over the weekend!
For the next two weeks, Beate will be providing sketches for Cami, Charmaine, Jenn, Laurie, Lori, Mary Jo and myself to sample, so please be sure to check out those awesome stampers' blogs to see what they've created today!
I'll be honest, I wasn't too fond of this sketc (no offense, Beate!) when I started out, but I ended up loving my card! I think these bold October Afternoon papers had something to do with that, with their common black accents. These papers can be hard to find in stock, but Cindy at StarLitStudio currently has them.
I made my card to fit in a regular #10 business-sized envelope (4" x 8.5") and used Classic Circle Nestabilities to cut the circle elements. The new Lockhart Lemons & Bay was stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink onto Papertrey Ink Vintage Cream cardstock and colored with these Copic markers:
I thought I'd be different and make this a bowl of limes, as opposed to lemons, to match the green in my patterned papers! New Copic Spica glitter pen in Buttermilk (available in April) was used to hightlight that one lemon (hopefully you can see that great sparkle in the photo below):
A couple of tied black buttons and a Dymo tape custom-made sentiment complete this card. I hope you'll give this sketch a try this weekend (you can find it on Beate's blog) and please check out the post below this one for a chance to WIN some new stamps being released today by Our Craft Lounge! I'll be back tomorrow with a card I made with that pretty new Flowers For You set!
