Love Life

Today I have a card to share for the sketch challenge this week from Create with Connie and Mary.  Only today is Friday, not Thursday and there is a reason for the change.  First, they have 4 NEW Thursday Challenge Design Team members!  Second, 4 of the regular Design Team members are moving to a NEW weekly Saturday Blog Hop!!  So, I am one of the members moving to Saturdays and I hope you'll join me!  I still plan on joining in on the Thursday Challenges, so that means extra stamping ideas for you!  OK, enough talking, let's get to the good stuff.  First, let me show you the sketch for the week.

I pulled out a Sale-a-bration set that I haven't used yet to make my card.  I simply love the lemon in A Happy Thing and felt it was perfect for this sketch.

 

This card actually uses three different Sale-a-bration items, two of which are paper sets.  Let me give you a quick breakdown of what I did.

1.  Old Olive card base with a layer of Irresistibly Yours Designer Series Paper.  I used the leaf pattern lightly sponged with Old Olive ink.

2.  Stamped lemon from A Happy Thing with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored with blendabilties.  I used Daffodil Delight, Old Olive and Soft Sky (for the light outline around the image).

3.  Cut lemon with Circle Framelits, fifth framelit from the center.  I also cut a piece of Best Year Ever Designer Paper from Sale-a-bration to place behind the lemon.  I love this particular design in Crushed Curry, worked great with the lemon.  Stamped "Love Life" with Memento Tuxedo Black ink on the Crushed Curry circle.

4.  Cut a circle of the Old Olive design from the Sweet Taffy Designer Paper with the fourth Circle Framelit from the center.  It goes great with the lemon as well.

5.  Assembled the card: Added a little bit of Crushed Curry Baker's Twine to the card at an angle to match the sketch.  I tied a Vintage Faceted button into the twine and used a mini glue dot to hold it in place.  Added all of my circles, the two designer paper circles were added with SNAIL and the lemon added with dimensionals.

So that's it!  My bright lemony card for the Create with Connie and Mary sketch challenge.  I hope you will stop by and check out all of the fabulous cards and new Design Team members!  Plus join me on Saturday for the first weekly BLOG HOP from Create with Connie and Mary, it's going to be so much fun!

Thanks for stopping in today and happy stamping!!

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