SOUS Sketch Challenge

Hello everyone! I've decided to once again play along with the ladies over at StuckOnUSketches! I love this sketch by Becky Fleck and couldn't wait to see what I could do with it!

Here is the Sketch:

And here is my version of the sketch:

First Love - by GenCraft (Floren)

I was trying to challenge myself to only use cardstock and no printed paper, but it just didn't look right to me. I was trying to pick up the blue in Jasmine's (my daughter) shirt with the blue's in the cardstock. The teenager's are always wearing two shirts these days and the blue one is peeking out under the gray one on top. This didn't come out exactly how I wanted it to, nonetheless, I'm still happy with it!


Here is a close-up of the Prima flowers and Basic Grey Element Stickers. I love the dimension of those flowers!


Here is a close-up of the flower I made! I used an EK Success Punch and layered several of the papers together. I tried to curl and cup them for some dimension and I also adhered the layers with foam tape. The sticker in the middle is an element sticker and I thought it gave it a nice touch!

I used Bo Bunny Double Dot (Dark Denim, Powder Blue, Harvest and Chiffon) and Basic Grey Boxer papers, element stickers and alphabet stickers from my stash.

Liz Friedmann are you out there? You've won the Queen & Co. blog contest from yesterday. Make sure to send us an email so we can send out your prize! Also, a big congrats to Melanie Bennett who won our Facebook contest we held over the weekend! She won herself a $25 gift certificate to the store! Make sure you are following us on Facebook so you don't miss out on our contests!

Happy Crafting!

Sketch Challenge at SOUS

Have you seen this weeks sketch challenge over at StuckOnUSketches? I just love what the ladies did with all the same sheets of paper and not just because it was donated by yours truly! :o)

Generations Crafting donated a few sheets of paper from the Basic Grey Sugar Rush collection to each designer. They used a wonderful sketch by Becky Fleck to come up with four completely different interpretations! I absolutely love seeing how differently sketches and paper can be used and I can't wait to have a challenge of my own!

Here are the papers donated to the SOUS designers:

Basic Grey Sugar Rush: Airhead, Big Cherry, Lollipop, Runts


Here is the wonderful Becky Fleck Sketch:


Here are the designers interpretations of the sketch using the same Basic Grey papers:


A Mother's Treasure
Created by Designer Nanne Harry
Nanne's Creations



Hope
Created by Designer Sandi Clarkson
Soft Side of Sandi



My Wish My Boyssss
Created by Designer Sandy Windsor
Details by Sandy



Road Trip
Created by Designer Leah Schaeffer
Beeing Creative and Feeling Cherry

So be sure to hop on over to SOUS and check it out! Play along this week and you may even win yourself a little blog candy!

Happy Crafting!

More Webster's Pages

I had so much fun and received such lovely compliments (thanks, ladies) for my card that I made using the sketch from SOUS that I decided to play again! I absolutely adore this great original sketch by Liz Qualman. I put it to use by making one layout and two cards! I used the very beautiful Webster's Pages Postcards from Paris collection, Prima Flowers and Bling and BasicGrey rub-ons. Sketches are so much fun!

Here is the sketch:

Here is my layout (boy time does fly! These are my girls in 2000, 2004 and this past Christmas 2009):

Here are 2 different cards I made using the same sketch!



Notice something? I used the lovely Webster's Pages Postcards from Paris for these designs plus my mom used it for her altered box. You are probably thinking why would Generations Crafting showcase products they don't sell? Well, this is our way of introducing to you a new manufacturer will be carrying very soon! That's right! We are expecting all 4 new collections of Webster's Pages released at CHA Winter as well as the Postcards From Paris collection showcased this week. Watch the Coming Soon category for all the new products!

Fun With Sketches

I love using sketches for making layouts and cards! I usually don't participate in sketch challenges because I'm not really allowed to win anything, but I love to play along anyway!

Check out the current sketch from Stuck On You Sketches. The sketch is designed for a 12x12 layout, but I modified it for a card. This weeks special challenge was to create something with red or pink in it.

Here's the sketch:


Here's my take on the sketch:

I used BasicGrey Nook & Pantry Chocolate Mousse, Cookbook, Strawberry Shortcake, Element Stickers and Pops to create this card. The fun doilies are from the Nook & Pantry Favor Boxes and the stamp is Jillibean Soup Sending Thoughts.

If you love designing with sketches, be sure to check them out! They have a new sketch challenge every week and sometimes they offer a blog candy prize (from yours truly) to a random player.