Tuesday Morning Sketches #487

Hello!   Thank you for stopping by.  This week's revisited sketch pick is Debbie's pick and it's another sketch by Janice Melton.  I actually did two cards with this sketch.  One of my cards, the first one I'm sharing, I actually started a few weeks ago and finally finished it on Sunday morning.

Before I get to my card - I had such a wonderful time with my son home.  I miss him already.  He left in the wee hours Saturday morning and he got back to Japan Sunday night.  I am so thankful he got safely and all I can say is I'm hoping this next year and half goes by as quickly as this past year and a half did.  I want him stateside.

So this first card features papers from a past Simon Says Stamp kit.  I can't remember which month.  My card also features dies from previous months Spellbinders small die kits of the month.  The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp that I bought during Die-cember.  I'm not real pleased with these dies, but I have them so I need to use them.  I lightly embellished with some Nuvo Drops.

Now, as I said I made two cards with this sketch.  I did this while my son was at Universal with friends for a couple of days.  I belong to a challenge group on Facebook and the challenge was an animal on the card.  So I pulled out my old There She Goes stamps set and I also used some pattern stamps from Sweet n Sassy.  This is a one layer card!

Yep - only one layer and a whole lotta thought!  It's not great but I learned a lot and I will work on perfecting this technique.  I used a piece of 110 lb card stock cut to a standard A2 size card.  I cut a piece of masking paper down to 4 x 5 1/4 and put it on the card.  I colored the unmasked part with some light blue ink.  Then I removed that mask and cut the circles.  I then stamped the plaid purple square.  I then masked it and stamped the border.  I masked off the border and stamped the yellow gingham pattern.  I then pulled off the outside circle and replaced the overall mask back on lining up the circle.  I then rubbed the pink ink on - this didn't turn out quite how I wanted.  But moving on, I removed the inner circle and stamped my focal image.  I tried to add in a bit of gray and proceeded to mess up thin lines so they became what you see.  I drew in all the black lines and added a sentiment from Lawn Fawn.  As I said, it's not great but hey - I gave it a go.

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