Sunday, June 9, 2013

Best Wishes

Hi! It's my first post for the Paper Smooches SPARKS team. Yeah! I'm excited and a little nervous to share my card. My teammates are such amazing designers (oh, the pressure!).




For this week's SPARKS challenge, it's Designer Drafts time. Here's the sketch:


I used the horizontal version of the sketch and went with a rustic theme:



SPARKS is shifting to a CAS emphasis, so I did a pretty CAS take on the sketch.

I started by stamping the yellow flower from Bold Blooms and layering the smaller flower with foam tape. I finished the flower by adding a leaf from Leafy Greens. For the background, I simply cut a piece of burlap and sewed it to the card base. Here's a close-up:


I apologize for the blurriness of the sentiment...the macro worked great for the flower.ha ha I finished the card off with a sentiment from Simply Said and a mix of stickpins.

If you would like to join this week's SPARKS challenge, you can link up your projects HERE. I hope you'll join in! Be sure to visit the rest of the team's blogs to see what they have created:


Thanks for stopping by!


Supplies
Cardstock: (Rustic White) PTI
Ink: (Chamomile, Grass) Fresh Ink; (Tuxedo Black) Memento; (Antique Linen, Scattered Straw Distress Inks) Ranger
Twine: (Natural) May Arts
Stickpins: (from the Fact line) BasicGrey

20 comments:

  1. Yup rustic...but so so fabulous! I love it. Burlap is one of my favorite things to put on a card :)

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  2. Love the yummy texture from the burlap piece and those adorable stick pins!

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  3. Nice take on the sketch from the burlap to the pins and little notch to hold the twine...superb!

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  4. love it! some great textures here.

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  5. Love this and might just need to case it. I have this awesome burlap ribbon from May Arts....thank you for the awesome inspiration!!!

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  6. You got nothing to worry about... you are AMAZING ...no, BEYOND AMAZING!!!! :) I loveeeeeeeeeeeeee this!! LOVING the burlap and the flower!!!!

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  7. WOW. SO much energy here. The softness of the flower, the zing of the leaf, the super textural burlap, and, of course, the implied violence from the sharp-ass pins. A kind of, "I love you, but watch your back" kind of card. Genius!

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  8. I love this! Love the natural fibers and those cute cute stickpins, this is just darling!

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  9. LOOOOOVE that burlap and flower design! FABULOUS take on this sketch! LOVE those little stick pins too! YOU ROCK! LOVE that this is CAS:) <3

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  10. This is gorgeous, Jocelyn! And you'll more than hold your own on this DT, no worries there. ;)

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  11. Well you definitely have nothing to be nervous about ... it's a fabulous card!

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  12. Thank you for the fab inspiration! I love the burlap and the bling!

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  13. Wow, I love all the textures on this! The burlap looks amazing and I love those pins.

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  14. Totally awesome! Love how many embellies you've got - and yet it's still totally CAS. And Jocelyn, don't forget - YOU are one of those amazing designers on the team! You rock!!

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  15. Hi Jocelyn, I'm so happy to be a teamie of yours :0)...haha... Funny that we are all feeling the pressure with the first card!!!
    Love how PS has met rustic on your card, they work soooo well together :0) congrats on Gallery Idol too... You are rockin those themes !!!
    Jenny x

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  16. Love the totally rustic feel to this! That burlap is such a perfect touch - really grounds everything together and totally cements the theme!

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  17. Beautiful card! I love an idea of adding burlap.
    Thank you for the inspiration!

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