Good morning crafters! Hope you are all well and managing to fit lots of crafting into your busy schedules.
I decided to enter another challenge, mostly to take my mind of England taking a thrashing in the cricket this morning! Having said that, by the time I finished the card and started this blog post, things were looking much better and maybe by the time I finish this we will know the result!
So, I saw a card this morning by my friend Ruth, which she had entered into the Sugar Pea Designs sketch challenge. I visited their blog and decided I would have a go at entering the challenge, using the sketch SPDSS46.
Here is my finished entry.
Yes, I know, I know, I have used the same fab little dog from the Avery Elle Furry Friends stamp set as I used in my previous post. He’s so cute, so why not? And, as before, I was lucky enough to have already coloured him with my Derwent coloursoft pencils during the recent colouring challenge (yes! still using up all those images!). I love love love how you can create texture with the pencils on these little animals.
To begin, I layered the MFT Chevron Paper and the green cardstock banner onto a white card base. I had to cut the banner as I don’t own any banner dies, and I also created faux stitching with my Signo Uni-ball broad white gel pen! Just as good as a stitched banner, although it doesn’t stop me wanting to own a set 🙂
Next up was to create the round feature panel. I cut a suitably sized MFT faux pierced circle and layered it onto a larger vellum circle. I am loving vellum at the moment!
I then adhered the dog and bowl onto the vellum and popped up the ball with a foam adhesive dot. The greeting is from the Furry Friends stamp set and I used Versafine Onyx Black (my favourite ink for sentiments).
Next, I added a Martha Stewart scallop dot punched strip, just to add a bit of interest. Then I adhered the white round panel to the vellum and then both onto the banner. Voila! The card is almost complete.
The final touch was to cut a little paper banner, pop it onto a larger vellum banner and glue it to the panel. I overdid the glue a bit and it looks a little bit crumpled but I am hoping if I stick it under my RHS Garden Plant Encyclopedia for a few hours it will flatten out lol!!!!
I then added the two faux stitched lines to the little banner using the same white gel pen.
And, we won the cricket!
I hope you like the card, thank you for stopping by and I will see you all soon!
Supplies used: Avery Elle Furry Friends; My Favorite Things Fresh Squeezed Chevron Paper Pack; My Favorite Things Pierced Circle Stax; green cardstock scrap; Signo Uni-ball white gel pen; vellum; Martha Stewart Scallop Dot Border Punch.
Deanne @ Three Trees says
This is so adorable Lisa! I love that little pup and the green and blue chevron paper is perfect (aren’t MFT papers fantastic!?!) Thanks so much for playing along with us at SugarPea Designs.
lisa says
Their papers are fantastic! thank you so much for stopping by!
Jeanne J says
Aww! What a cutie! Your little pooch looks like “hey! let’s play! ” The stitching and deckled edges are wonderful!
lisa says
Thank you Jeanne, I am happy to have found the challenge and will be joining in again for sure 🙂
Lesley Croghan says
Wow, this is SO cute! I love what you did with the sketch and how you coloured the pup, Lisa! Thank you so much for joining us at SPD!
lisa says
Thanks for the challenge, good fun! Will be playing along again for sure.
katrine (treen) says
first of all i have to say that your blog is delightful! i love to come here. next, this card is delightful! the coloring on the precious puppy is so so good. then, all of the layers and lovely touches you put on the card. its so wonderful. you are really good at giving a tutorial on how you made it also. i’m so impressed. i’m loving to watch “your card trip”. you keep getting better and better. i’m sure you can tell that i have trouble with typing fast and not capitalizing words, etc. lol i have only had a computer for the past 15 years and mostly used it at first to play a game called toontown with my small niece. in the game you type as fast as you can to talk to others. there are alot of words that you cant say (to protect the children) we got creative and so i am in the habit of mixing up words like too, to, and two. lol. also, you know, you and i love alot of the same stamp sets. i got the same puppy set that you did. lol i cant tell you how much your kindness and support means to me. thanks so much, hugs, treen
lisa says
Thank you Treen! All words are welcome, capitalized or not :). I do remember that game, although I never played it. I have to give this stamp set a rest now as otherwise people will think this is my only one! Thanks for reading xx
Ruth says
Yay for joining in challenges – I love the Sugar Pea ones – and thank you so much for the shout out. I love the colours in this AND I love the layered vellum – it never even crossed my mind to try that – definitely adds a bit of something without adding extra colour which is nice. Xx
lisa says
Exactly, that is why I love vellum, as also it is not as thick so doesn’t add bulk. And you get to see through it just a little bit, I like that. Thank you for the intro to the challenge!