When my friend Taylor asked me if I’d consider making a sample for this week’s Splitcoaststampers.com sketch challenge, I happily agreed.  Sketch challenges are some of my favorite challenges.

Then I saw the sketch.

I froze.  I thought, “Oh my gosh.  WHAT am I going to do with this?!?”

But I printed it out, and turned it around to view it from different angles, and finally an idea popped into my head.  I decided to turn the sketch on its side and make a scene in the area that the sketch showed as empty space, incorporating the banner-like and circle elements of the sketch into the scene.  Lawn Fawn’s barn and fence seemed well-proportioned for the sketch, so I just needed to add in some other things to create a farm scene.  The cow seemed like a good choice to me, and the bird was a simple little extra touch.  I was stumped for a little bit on how to make the sentiment stand off from the rest of the card but then I thought about a quote balloon.  I figured even someone with my drawing skills (read: or lack thereof) could draw a quote balloon!  There is a lot of fussy cutting and paper piecing on this card – the cow is all paper pieced, and the fence was pretty tricky to cut.  But overall I’m pleased with the end result.  And I have to say I was amused (or maybe a-moo-sed?) by the idea of looking through my designer paper scraps for something that could be considered “cow udder pink”.

Creating a scene with stamped images is the current Lawnscaping challenge, so my card fits in there, too!

And I have a cute any occasion card to add to the box I’m filling for Operation Write Home.

Supplies for today’s card:
Stamps: Critters on the Farm, Bannerific (Lawn Fawn)
Cardstock: Luxury White (Gina K. Designs); Basic Black (SU); scraps from Ambrosia, Two Scoops and Blitzen collections (Basic Grey)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Other: multiliner pen (Copic)