Two blossoms on a single branch

This is my first post as an official DT at the Outlawz Sketch challenge, yes, my month guesting has rolled on to a permanent DT spot, whoop, whoop!  My card today features a beautiful image from Whimsy Stamps, Pregnant Woman.

And here’s this week’s sketch.

So I like to enter challenges for, well, the challenge, so before I made up my card I moseyed on over to the Whimsy Stamps’ blog to check out their current challenge, which happened to be tic tac toe.  Now I love a tic tac toe challenge as it gives you three elements to work with and I really needed that lace element on this card as I went and forgot the square behind the circle.  I improvised corners with some pieces of lace, which made a nice frame for my flowers.  I moved those closer as my stencil and die cut view finders were smaller than the circle element in the sketch and smaller than I thought but I really wanted to use my new Lovely View die and the stencil view finder was a serendipitous find in my stash.

It’s a bit hard to see the stencilled view finder and I think I should have used the actual die as the stencil one doesn’t quite line up with the die cut one.  I do like the effect though of the shadow behind, I used embossing paste in black but softened it up with some Aged Silver Fran-tage.  As this card also features a stencil I’m entering it in the current challenge at Quirky Crafts.

With my lovely Prima flowers I am also entering my card at Creative Corner’s current challenge.

So if you love a challenge too and need some inspiration with your layout won’t you come play with us at Outlawz, we’d love to see what you create.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E31, E33, E37 (R20 cheeks)

Lips E11

Hair T4, T6, T8, 100

Dress G03, G05, G09, G17

Chalks & Powders etc

Fran-tage Embossing Enamel ~ Aged Silver

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

The Crafters Workshop Balzer Bits ~ View Master

Spellbinders Little Darlings ~ Lovely View

Embellishments

Prima Jardine ~ Printery Flowers

Prima Stationer’s Desk ~ Typewrite Flowers

Prima Rosarian ~ Timido Flowers

Inks & Paints etc

Studio 490 Embossing Paste ~ Black

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Seedless Preserves

Papers

American Crafts Cardstock ~ White

Echo Park Little Girl ~ Grape

Ribbons & Trims etc

Lace from stash

Stamps

Whimsy Stamps ~ Pregnant Woman

Challenges

Creative Corner ~ All flowers 

Quirky Crafts #13 ~ Stencils and/or masks

Whimsy Stamps #72 ~ Tic Tac Toe (lace, die cut, flowers)

Thanks for stopping by!