Stamp Off Colorful Seasons Sketch Challenge

 

Welcome friends, to another Stamp Off Challenge

with Susan, Buffy and Jackie.  We get together on

Fridays, to enjoy sharing together.

 

This week, we are doing a sketch challenge.  I personally

love sketch challenges, because they guide the process,

without telling me which stamps to use.   I tend to

like the more simple, straight foreword sketches

because I lean towards CAS cards.

 For this sketch, I used my FAVORITE new catalog bundle;

Colorful Seasons set (p 147) with coordinating

Seasonal Layers Thinlits dies (p 216).  I will try not to

use this bundle for every single post, but it is difficult.

The set has images for every season, while the thinlits

add additional components like this adirondack chair.

This sentiment, from Beautiful You (p 141) works

perfectly with the feeling of this card.

The other most useful product used on this card

is the Stitched Shapes Framelits (p 214).  These 

square, oval and circle shapes enable you to create

elegant frames for any image or cut-out.

I'm so glad that you popped by and hope that

you stop at Buffy and Susan's blogs to see their

challenge projects.

 

Lift Me Up In Colors

I'm still getting used to the new 2017-19 In colors.

Some are pretty "intense".  One way to use

that intense color is to incorporate a lot of white.

That is how I  approached this card.  The InColors are

Flirty Flamingo, Lemon Lime Twist and Berry Burst.

They looked great stamped with the Lift Me Up

set on page 230.  The coordinating Up and Away

Thinlits Dies made it a breeze to cut out these images.

I went to my "default" and used the Seaside Textures

Impressions Embossing Folder on page 210, to

create texture on the white layer.

Happy Birthday On Tree Rings

The 2017-18 Stampin' Up! catalog offers some

really fun new accessories.  This is the new 

Happy Birthday Thinlits on page 213.   It is fancy

and swoopy, so that you can used it for any

gender or aged birthday celebrant.

The other accessory used was that lovely layer

of Wood Textures Designer Series Paper Stack,

found on page 187.  I live this stack and enjoyed

placing the Birthday Thinlits on the tree rings.

Somehow, the two went really well together. 

I added layers of So Saffron behind the Wood Textures

layer and the "Happy Birthday", to help bring out

these layers.  The candy dots were colored with

a black sharpie, to coordinate with the rest of the card.