Thursday, December 4, 2014

Joy to the World {CASE this Sketch & Merry Monday}


Happy Thursday! The weekend is near and there is so much to be done with Christmas on its way! Today I am sharing my design team card for CAS(E) this Sketch! I love being on this team, it pushes me as a card designer! The sketch this week was a toughie for me...I was really struggling but then something happened! 


I was making my Art Impressions card for today and I realized that the oval I had used for my main image was too big, so I placed another oval "inside" of the original oval I had cut and voila! I had my oval "outline". So I decided to use an oval outline instead of a rectangle outline! Yay!


I cut my background white and using the "stamping off" technique, I stamped 3 pine boughs in the top corner...I only inked once and then stamped off two more times, to give it more depth. Then I placed the oval on my card but cutting some foam dimensionals into small pieces. Then I stamped the image inside on the main card front. Then I die cut the bird and popped him up in the "tree". 

This card took minutes to make...I think about 10 minutes in total! 

I used the Verve Sentiment called Every Heart Plain Jane. I LOVE it! Anything with a music reference is wonderful!

I am also playing along with:



Paper Issues-Birds of a Feather



Simon Says Stamp-Christmas/Holiday Theme

Simon Wednesday Challenge Blog

17 comments:

  1. Oh, I love this! Fabulous take on the sketch, Lesley! Beautiful!

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  2. Fab take on the sketch, love the pop of red x

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  3. Beautiful, Lesley, just beautiful!

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  4. I love this gorgeous card. That bright pop of a color against the deep green is gorgeous!

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  5. Gorgeous! Very eye-catching with that bright red!

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  6. I love your oval frame and pretty card.

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  7. This is breath-taking in every way, Lesley! Hugs, Darnell

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  8. Oh, I just love the way you framed the sentiment. Such a beautiful and meaningful card!

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  9. How lovely!! Love the bird and how you framed the sentiment on this. Great take on the sketch!!

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  10. Beautiful sentiment! Love the way you incorporated the bird here.

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  11. Stunning card Lesley, I love the framed sentiment. I love that you are joining us for Merry Monday

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  12. Great idea to use a frame for the oval - it really packs a punch. And that bird is so cute!

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  13. Gorgeous card Lesley, so elegant and I love how the red really "pops".
    Thanks for joining at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge
    hugs
    Mandy xx

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  14. Lesley, this quite possibly may be my favorite Christmas card of the season... seriously. So gorgeous...
    =] Michele

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Thank you for stopping by! I appreciate the time you took to leave me a little stamping love!!
Lesley :)