Freshly Made Sketches #735

 

I find card sketches to be super challenging, but in a good way! Sometimes it is good to stretch beyond the norm. When I saw this sketch I immediately thought of a Waffle Flower Stencil I had not used called Postal Collage Envelope Stencil. 

I thought it would be fun to line up the envelopes in this staggered grid.

The stensil is a two-part affair, the flaps are inked first and then the body. I ended up cutting them out by hand as lining them up on a card front was a little tricky. I used Distress Inks.

I am entering it on the FMS blog. 

Flowers for Mom

Happy Mother's Day! We are celebrating in Canada today. I made this peek-a-boo slider card for my mom. From the front you see an inner message of Happy Mother's Day - a wonderful calligraphy stamp by Quietfire Design. I chose to stamp in a warm brown to coordinate with the Stampin' Up! long-retired designer papers.

The front floral is a stamp, stencil and die set by Pinkfresh Studio called Slimline Floral Notes. The spray measures about 8.25 inches but I cut it apart to fit this A2 sized-card. I used various inks to stencil in the shading.

The fun part of this card is that when it is opened, there is a middle panel that slides across and a new sentiment appears in the cirle inside. It's kind of magical!

This is another stamp from Quietfire Design. The peach paper is ribbed so the stamped image was affected a bit.

I learned how to do this card by following the tutorial here: https://youtu.be/fuhTKf5WiYM?si=P0AYvDPruvxfYVIs. Next time I will use a smaller circle like the originator as I see how that might work a little better.

Here is a view of the card from above.

Mom said it is "creative" and "lovely" so I am glad I tried this out. Besides the floral die, I used Spellbinders graduated circles for the apertures. I am entering this in the Die Cut Divas May Challenge for Celebrations.