AHSC 315

Hello Everyone,
I am here today to share my Design Team work for Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge. If you have been to my blog before you will know that I LOVE sketches. This is one of my favourite ways to start off a card. And this is the sketch that Michelle gave us to play with

I had so much fun playing around with this sketch that I actually made 3 cards and these are them

They are all made based on the sketch but I changed how I used this sketch and this is one of the things that I love about sketches. You can use them as is or you can flip them or invert them what ever works best for your card sometimes what you do depends on the paper you are using; you may not want to cover up a certain part. This is what happened with the card I am going to highlight in this post.

As you can see with this paper if I used the original orientation of the sketch I would have lost the city and tree scene on the paper. So I flipped and rotated the sketch to suit my paper. I left this card pretty simple because the base paper was so busy.

Thanks for stopping in and looking at my Design Team project for AHSC. I hope that you will come on over and play along with myself and the team. Before you go I would like to leave you with this thought

Until Next Time,
Tracy B

Birthday Critter

Hello Everyone,
I have had this wonderful little critter sitting in my stash for a little while waiting for the perfect project and I decided to use him on this one.

I had coloured in the critter from Bugaboo quite a while ago but I didn’t colour in the balloon. I didn’t know what paper I would be putting him on and I thought that having the balloon co-ordinate with the paper would be a good tie in. And if you have visited my blog before you know that I love starting with a sketch and this is the one that started this card.

I saw this sketch come up in the beginning of the week but my plans went one way while my life went another. But I did get to sit down and finish off this card. So once I had settled on the paper pack I was going to work with I finished colouring in the image and put some grass around the little fellas feet with my Copic markers. Then I put the card together and used my shaped scissors for the scalloped border.

Thanks for stopping in and looking at my card project. I really appreciate all of the likes, comments and visits to my blog. And before you go I would like to leave you with this thought

Until Next Time,
Tracy B

Challenge Entered
Stella Says Sketch #705

Purple Birthday Greetings

Hello Everyone,
I was able to make a 2nd card for the Stella Says Sketch Challenge but it is also suitable for the Shopping Our Stash Challenge – Fabulous February celebrating everything about February which includes it having Violets and Amethyst all Purple things 🙂

If you have been a visitor of my blog for a while you will know that I love working with sketches. But you may not also realise that I also love Purple as well so this challenge came in perfectly. So this is the card I came up with when I combined the challenges.

Another image that I have had sitting in my container waiting for a card to be right for it. The colouring of the image drove the colour choice that I went with. I had this pack of 1 colour plus white details sitting in my paper pad stash. And this is the sketch from Stella

This time the whole card has gone portrait instead of landscape but everything was driven by the digi image from Bugaboo Digital Stamps. I used a birthday embossing folder for the top part of the sketch just to give a little interest to this area.

Thanks for stopping by and looking at my card project. I really appreciate the visits, likes and comments that I receive on my blog posts. Before you go I would like to leave you with this thought

Until Next Time,
Tracy B

Challenges Entered –

Stella Say Sketch #704
Shopping Our Stash – Fabulous February

AHSC Sketch 305

Hello Everyone,
Today I am bringing you a card as part of the Design Team for Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge (AHSC). And this is the sketch that we got to play with this time around.

This is such a fun sketch to play with. When I originally saw this sketch I was going to use a doily for the scalloped element but I search my stash and I didn’t have one :O I thought that my stash had everything 😉 But anyway this is the card that I made with this sketch

This image is from a card making magazine and I stamped the bird, eggs, and flower image once and then I stamped the flower part of the image twice more. By doing this I was able to layer up the flowers to give a fuller look. I coloured in everything with my Faber-Castell Polychromos Pencils, I have a love hate relationship with this colouring medium but I think that I just need to spend more time working with them.

Thanks for stopping in and looking at my Design Team project. I hope that you will come on over to Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge Blog and join with us in using this sketch. Before you go I would like to leave you with this thought

Until Next Time,
Tracy B

Retro Birthday

Hello Everyone,
A birthday card that I think would be suitable for almost anyone. It is so good digging into my image collection and using those that haven’t been out in a while. And this is the card that I made

The making of this card was inspired by 2 challenges – a theme and a sketch. The theme comes from Time Out Challenges

and the sketch is from Stella @ Bugaboo Challenges

With my card I did change the orientation of the image but this was only because of the image that I decided to use with these papers. These papers are from an older Kasiercraft Paper Pad called Happy Snaps. I knew that I had this paper pad in my stash when I decided to used this camera image for the “Retro” theme. I am unsure where this image came from as I have lost the packaging that it came with. I coloured in the elements with my Copic markers.

Thanks for stopping in and looking at my card project today. I appreciate all of the visits, likes and comments on my projects. Before you go I would like to leave you with this thought

Until Next Time,
Tracy B

Challenges Entered
Time Out Challenges Retro Challenge
Stella Says Sketch #704

Birthday Travels

Hello Everyone,
I have had a productive couple of days but I have only now had the time to upload my creations to my blog. So here is another card that I have been able to make. The card this time around is based just on 1 challenge but I used up supplies that were still sitting on my desk from my previous card which meant that it didn’t go into my drawer of left overs. And this is the card that I came up with

As you can see I used the same backing papers that I used in the previous card but this time everything is matted with brown lightweight card stock.

Yes it is the same sketch as well from the previous card as well. I liked it so much that I wanted to have some more fun with this sketch. The images are actually from the reverse side of the paper sheet that I used so I thought that they suited the card sketch wonderfully. I really liked the idea of making another card that had a similar starting point but I ended up with something that looked different but used up that paper that I was using at the time. For the strip I used this camera washi tape that I had which I thought went with the travel theme of this card.

Thanks for stopping by and looking at my card project. I really appreciate the likes, comments and views that my blog receives. Before you go I would like to leave you with this thought

Until Next Time,
Tracy B

Challenges Entered – Tuesday Morning Sketches #491

Sweet Surprises

Hello Everyone,
The card that I am posting up today is actually the combination of 2 challenges. And these are the challenges that I have combined

Make Your Mark – Use markers on your project

and a sketch challenge

What a fun sketch to play around with. I can see that I may use this in future project because so much could be done with it. And this is the card that I came up with using these 2 challenges

I came across these ice-cream images in my box where I keep images waiting for the right project for them to be included on. Sometimes I am not in the mood to make a complete project but I do want to do some craft so I colour in images and they will eventually find their place.

The stamps actually come from a magazine which included some papers as well and this helped me to pull everything together. Each of the images I popped up on foam tape just to give a little dimension to what is quite a simple card.  The sentiment stamp comes from the same collection and is mounted flat onto the card front.

Thanks for stopping in and looking at my card project. I really appreciate the visits, likes and comments on my projects. Before you go I would like to leave you with this thought

Until Next Time,
Tracy B

Challenges Entered
Sketch Saturday Sketch #551
Shopping Our Stash – Make Your Mark