I’d like to thank the team at CAS Colours and Sketches for selecting my card as a winner this week. I’m especially happy because it was a sketch challenge and I had to spend many days mulling over how I wanted to do it. I’m glad that it was a success in the end.

I’m not sure what kind of card I’ve made for today – it could be a Christmas card since it has tree, but it could also be a birthday card. I left the inside blank so that I can decide when I need it!

I made the background for the scene using the same sponging and spritzing technique that I detailed when posting this card that my sister showed me at the crop. I used the same three colours here – blushing bride, lost lagoon and night of navy. Briefly – you sponge the three colours and then spritz with water a couple of times and this gives the gorgeous sky effect. The window frame and trees are cut out in night of navy using the hearth and home thinlits and the sleigh ride edgelits.

Here’s a tip – when you look at your beautiful sky, do NOT think that it would be a good idea to trim it to the same size as the window frame by also using the hearth and home dies. Of course that would cut out the windows which is exactly the piece that you need! But, if you were to do something that ridiculous, you CAN piece them back together onto another piece of card so that you can make it work. Oops!

So I added my trees between my pieced back together background and the window frame. This done I tried all three sky colours as mats and bases and came to the conclusion that a lost lagoon mat and a night of navy card worked best. It allows the blushing bride sunrise to really pop. I put the window onto the card with stampin’ dimensionals. The envelope is lined with the envelope liners framelits and the retired backgrounds designer series paper.

See you tomorrow,

Liz