SUO CHALLENGE - SKETCH #SUOC221

We have a sketch for you today at SUO Challenge #SUOC221 and this one was designed by me.  I hope you can have fun with it.

I started off my card using an stamp from a retired SU set called Fresh Vintage - this is a wooden set.  I'm surprised how quickly I got used to working with cling stamps, photopolymer stamps and blocks - I really thought I would stick with the wood -but now sadly my old wooden blocks rarely get used.  I also used Timeless Textures as part of the background and I tried to use the same colours as the Die Cut Swirls.  These were a RAK so I wasn't exactly sure of the colours but I went with Pear Pizazz, Night of Navy and Bermuda Bay.  I added some retired SU satin ribbon behind the swirls and the sentiment is from another retired set Cottage Greetings.  I'm all about the old lol!

 

JAR OF LOVE - BOUQUET OF FLOWERS

There is a Facebook Challenge group which I join in with sometimes -Colour Inkspiration run by Bronwyn Eastly. #CI51 - Their challenge this week was an image for our inspiration.

I chose to use Jar of Love and its matching framelits for my card.  The embossing folder is from Kaisercraft and is called Tiny Floral.  I used the colours as per the image above and built up the bouquet from all the parts.  I added a touch of the beautiful SU Polka Dot Tulle ribbon to represent the lace of the bride's dress.  The sentiment is from a retired SU set called Cottage Greetings.  

This group chooses its winners slightly differently - it chooses a top 5 and then adds a poll for its members to choose the winning card. I was delighted that my card won.

 

JAR OF LOVE

Global Design Project #GDP178 has a sketch this week - I quite fancied doing some layering with die cuts for this one and the only real set I have is Jar of Love so that's what I used.  It needed some love anyway as it hasn't been used for a while.




My colours were inspired by a card I had seen on Pinterest using greys and I don't really usually use grey much so I thought I would challenge myself.

I used a stitched circle framelit for the grey circle and cut out a heart out of the middle.  The tiny heart is made with the new foils as are some of the flowers.  Some of the leaves I used the framelits to cut out - the others were fussy cut.  I used an old SU colour Regal Rose and Berry Burst for the inks.  A touch of Timeless Textures in old SU Going Gray added the dots in the background and the sentiment, which is from Cottage Greetings.  I added some liquid pearls and some Wink of Stella.

I'm also adding this into the Watercooler Wednesday challenge - WWC210 - All About Occasions