Hello! After a nice holiday break, the girls of CAS – Colours and Sketches are back and ready to start a new year of challenges! Karen is our hostess this month, and she’s starting us off with a sketch this week.  Karen’s note to the design team included “the blob at the bottom can be a torn edge or corner stamping.”

I originally planned to just use some of my older supplies for this card, but when I was working on it, I realized that once again, things just weren’t going to turn out as planned.  I thought this rub-on in the floral design roughly followed the shape of the “blob” part of the sketch (even though it’s quite a bit larger than the shape in the sketch! oops).  I chose this retired cardstock because it seemed like a light and cheery color for a card to send to Operation Write Home this spring.  This started out as a one-layer card with the floral design and a sentiment.  However, the font of the sentiment wasn’t large enough to make the sentiment legible.  So I tore along the edges of the floral design, adhered it to a white layer, stamped a different sentiment, and put it all on a base of the colored cardstock.  I briefly considered just using a white card base, instead of a white layer, but something about that didn’t look right to me.  I added a small butterfly to the inside of the card, too.

Be sure to go to the CAS – Colours and Sketches site and check out what the rest of the design team has made.  Then share your own work using this sketch with us!  You have until 1:00 p.m. Eastern time Wednesday, January 16 to link your creation.  We’d love to see what you do with this sketch!

Supplies:
Stamps: Year Round Sentiments (Hero Arts)
Cardstock: Apricot Appeal, Whisper White (Stampin’ Up)
Ink: Apricot Appeal (SU)
Other: Love & Happiness rub on (SU)