Stamping 411 Sketch 184 and Blog Candy Winner! Happy New Year!

Hi Everyone, Welcome to another Sketch Challenge from Stamping 411.

Can you believe we are at Sketch 183 and we are into a New Year?? Unbelievable!! I want to wish each and everyone of you a Healthy, Happy and Prosperous New Year filled will lots of Love!!

Speaking of Love….we just love how you’ve all commented this past week to win some Blog Candy from us. I think we all have a winner…so make sure to check out all the Operator Blogs to see if your name was called.

My winner of the Blog Candy is……

"Butternutsage!! I love this card and certainly cannot wait to open my stash of stamps and punches to make this. It is so pretty. Happy New Year Lee! `Donna"

please contact me to let me know what your address is. You have won this Bow Maker and Ribbon Bundle. Congrats to you Donna!!!!

Now onto the sketch and my card.

Here is the sketch…

…and my card.

I have to admit I saw Connie’s card a few weeks back and love this little flower done in Baja Breeze and the Pearl so I embellished on that. (Thanks for the inspiration Connie). The flower is from the Just Believe Set and colored with markers in Baja and Old Olive.

 

The Card Base is Very Vanilla and cut to 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 and folded. The Horizontal piece in vanilla is 1 1/4 x 5 1/2 and the Baja Mat is 1 1/2 x 5 1/2. The Baja Seam Binding Ribbon was scrunched behind using snail to hold it in the back of the mat. I then went Pearl Crazy as I had lots of these little pearls on my desk….nuts huh? The Vanilla piece is actually scored at every 1/4 inch for texture. Almost looks like bead board but you can’t tell from here.

The Vertical Mat is 2 1/4 x 3 5/8 and the image piece is 2 1/8 x3 1/2. I added pearls to the vase created with Baja Card Stock and Large Oval Punch and and snipped the top and bottom almost straight…hehe …..(gives it character, not being totally straight)…sponged one side to give dimension and popped it up over the image. I then added a piece on the side using the Modern Label Punch and added the pearl. I also used the little tiny Jewelry Tag Punch and hung it from some of our Linen Thread. That’s it.

Hope you enjoyed my little share today and will join us in this weeks challenge.