Grateful bunch is making an appearance again for my design card for CAS Colours & Sketches‘ current sketch challenge. It’s a super simple sketch that you can take in almost any direction – Louise just wants to see the curves in your design.

Here’s the banner which inspired my card

I coloured in parts of the leaf stamp from Grateful Bunch that were the most angled with my mossy meadow Stampin’ Write marker and used them as one of the curve elements. I used the flowers as the second curve element stamping them in blackberry bliss and hello honey but it’s hard to be sure now. I’d stamped these out 2 weeks ago when I was doing the previous sketch! The sentiment comes from the set included in the Watercolor Wishes kit – I find I am using this stamp set a great deal at the moment. Same goes for mossy meadow! I glued the very vanilla piece to a mossy meadow card base and decided that was my card.

The next morning, I decided that there was something missing and realised that the pearl embellishments would finish the card perfectly.

I don’t use a lot of embellishments since I do adore CAS cards, but when the stamping is so minimal, the embellishments work and the card still stays CAS. And I do like embellishments as the centres of flowers.

I hope you’ll pop over to the challenge site and check out the inspiration from the rest of the design team and then have a go yourself. I hope to see you in the gallery.

See you tomorrow,

Liz

It’s Thursday which means another challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches – this week it’s a sketch. I’m really getting more and more fond of sketches – I encourage you to give a sketch a try. And why not start with this week’s over at CAS Colours & Sketches? 🙂

For some reason my mind turned the rectangles into flower stalks early on. It was as I was driving home from CVS getting a prescription filled for my brother that this idea popped into my head. I had to imagine whether it should be grateful bunch or the botanical builder set.  Nowhere near as distracting as texting, but hard to envision and when you have the idea you want to play immediately! In the end I tried both in reality and Grateful Bunch won. I’m rather hooked on the almost retiring in-colours at the moment and so the stalks are in mossy meadow. To stay true to the sketch the left hand stalk is full size and the right is smaller. I did this by masking off some of the stalk – it didn’t have to be perfect because a flower could cover any issue! I tried hello honey and blackberry bliss as the flowers, the latter full strength and stamped off once but it lacked some brightness. So I thought about yesterday’s card and how mossy meadow and watermelon wonder look so great together and I stamped the flowers in watermelon wonder on very vanilla and punched them out. I love that the punch cuts out three flowers at a time! I decided to change colours, pretending the plants are separate, and on the right did a stamped off blackberry bliss flower.

I added the mossy meadow sentiment from the Watercolor Wishes set (love this set) and then glued on the flowers, popping up the biggest watermelon wonder flower for some interest. The very vanilla piece was put onto a mossy meadow card base and there you go.

I’m now wondering if I need to get more mossy meadow card. It’s such a great colour and I’m really going to miss it. I may have to grab another pack before the retiring list comes out and the in colours items disappear…

Anyway – please go over to CAS Colours & Sketches and check out the inspiration from the rest of the design team and have a go yourself. I promise that after a few sketches you’ll come to love them too.

See you tomorrow,

Liz