Aug 29 2007
Wish…a sketch challenge…
I love sketch challenges! They always make me think a little outside the box and that is a good thing. I love today’s SCS Sketch challenge. You can find it at SC if you want to play along. 
This card features two things I wanted to tell you about. Flourishes has paired up with Gina K on the Make a Wish Stamps for a Cause set to help promote this fabulous cause. Flourishes does not profit in any way from this venture, except by helping out a wonderful charity. I know you’ve seen samples of this great set before here. I was on the original special design team for this project and I’m excited to help promote it again. I love this very flexible set and I love the fact that $7 from each set goes to the Children’s Make a Wish Foundation.
The other thing I wanted to tell you about is the gorgeous Webster’s papers. I LOVE them! These papers are fairly new on the market…I had never heard of them before until Jacksonbelle came back from CHA. Honestly…you really can’t get a great feel for them by looking at them on-line but I took Lindsey’s word for it and I love them! ABsolutely stunning in person.
Spring Wish
For this design I used the sketch as my jumping off point and pulled out my stamp set and my new papers. After looking through them, I thought this gorgeous print would work great with my image and I pulled my color combo direct from the paper….bashful blue and mellow moss. I tell you, it has been ages since I last used Mellow Moss but it looks so subtle and beautiful…I must rethink that color!
I actually tweeked the sketch just a tad and used a square card layout instead…you know how much I like the added design space! The main image was inked up with my SU markers and then stamped twice onto a scrap of very vanilla cardstock. After sponging all my layers, I adhered them down and started my embellishing. I also adhered a beautiful gold/green May Arts satin ribbon over the seam on the right hand side.
The image needed a little definition at the top left and I was itching to use my new Making Memories textured tape that I picked up at Michael’s yesterday. I cut off a small scrap, folded it over to create a tab and then stitched on top of the image. The Prima flower worked as the lower element to the sketch and I added a large copper eyelet with my Crop-a-dile as the flower center. To finish it off and to add another copper element, I added a row of eyelets under the center panel to add to the design.
Wishing you a fabulous day!
Such a beautiful card. I love the papers you used. Outstanding!
This card is stunning! Now I think I MUST have some of it as well…..thanks for all your great design work…..sheer genius
GASP!!! WOW, how stunning!!! I LOVE the colors, ribbon, stamps, WOWWWWW incredible J!
Oh, this is GORGEOUS! I so loooove the papers you used!
Oh Julia, I love this card, the picture is so much better on your blog than splitcoast!!! lol, it really shows the beauty of the stamp set and that paper is to die for, its just lovely
Mr. T and his “A-Team” (showing my age) have absolutely nothing on Lindsey and her “E-Team” (Enablers-Team, L, J, M and T)! You guys are gonna make me go broke in her store!
PS: Was that show seen in Canada?
PS again: This card is GORGEOUS!
Great looking card!
Cute card and I love the papers you used.
Gorgeous card!! Love the paper and everything else you’ve done! Wow!
Julia: This is a beautiful card. “Textured tape”… now that sounds fun!!! I also love how you used that humongous eyelet in the center of the flower.
A beautiful card and lovely papers, Julia. I like the muted colors and the perfectly matched ribbon.
beautifully vintage card, Julia!! just gorgeous!!
Great card with beautiful papers
Gorgeous, J! Love the paper, the brads, the flower with the big eyelet…sooo pretty!
So stunning and inspiring!
