Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #300!

I was so happy that Michelle asked me to be a guest designer for the 300th challenge (wow!) for the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge blog this week.  There are a whole bunch of guests joining the team this week, so I hope you'll join us and play along.  Here's what I've come up with:

Now, if you scroll down and take a peek at our sketch... you'll see that it has quite a lot going on.  My normal go-to is a bunch of coordinating patterned paper, but for some reason I decided to make it a mostly one-layer card, and I represented all of the shapes with stamps.  Once I picked which stamps I wanted to use, I decided to make it a rainbow effect.

I started by blending four colours of Distress Oxide inks lightly into the top and bottom corners, and then stamped over them with the polka dots in dye based inks.  I added the sketchy circles to represent the circles on the sketch, and sprinkled on a rainbow of sequins in lieu of the flowers.  I stamped the Hello sentiment inside the red circles, then matted it with black and adhered it to the base with pop dots.  I have a small arrow die, and almost adhered a little black one onto the card, but decided that with my rainbow colours, it was busy enough!

Stamp sets used: Better Together by Verve; Hello and Doodled Designs by Close To My Heart; Inks are Black Oxide by Versafine; Pear, Creme Brulee, Sunset, Tulip, Gypsy & Sapphire by Close To My Heart; Mowed Lawn, Honey, Wilted Violet & Blueprint Sketch Distress Oxide inks by Ranger.  Black and White Daisy cardstock by Close To My Heart.

The Challenge #42

I'm just sneakin' this one in under the wire!  I really wanted to play along with The Challenge this week, because my wonderful niece Allie is the guest designer!  I am in need of a new stash of birthday cards, so I put together one using this week's colour inspiration:

Stamp sets are Doodled Designs & Make a Wish, Close To My Heart; Cardstock is Ocean, Breeze, Cotton Candy & Ruby, CTMH; Inks are Black, Breeze, Ruby, Ocean & Cotton Candy, CTMH; Chevron Border dies, My Favorite Things; Stitched STAX die, MFT; Gumdrops, Your Next Embellie.

You Mean the World to Me

I made a couple of Father's Day cards today, so thought I'd share them here - using a few products that I haven't used too often.  Most of the products are Close To My Heart - I'll list them all below:

Patterned papers are Seaside; Cardstock is Desert Sand, Sorbet, Glacier & Colonial White; Stamp sets are Doodled Designs & You Mean the World to Me; Inks are Glacier, Desert Sand and Sorbet; Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge - all Close To My Heart.  Heart dies, Verve.