I’ve been pushing myself lately to do more sketch challenges – normally when a challenge site offered a sketch, I’d skip off to another site to find a colour challenge. But it’s rather rewarding to wrestle with a sketch and come up with something that feels right. Both for you and the sketch, that is. So the sketch challenge at Pals Paper Arts has been percolating in my brain for a couple of days. I wanted to really include the sketch in the design rather than adding three somethings almost as an extra.

Here’s the sketch that inspired my card – as you can see, I flipped the sketch.

I remembered that the square pillow box thinlits dies has three trios of images including these trees. The dies are retiring at the end of the year, so grab it now! I cut them out of the very vanilla cardstock and liked how the mossy meadow looks peeking from behind. Martin said he would prefer a different green – apparently he’s not as addicted to mossy meadow as I am. I then bypassed my much used merry die from the Christmas Greetings thinlits dies and went with jolly which I cut out of the gold foil. The Christmas sentiment is from the retired Endless Wishes set – I like how it nestles in between the j and the y. I know that there’s a technical term for the parts of the letters below the line but I can’t remember what it is. And it’s not important! This would really be an easy card to mass produce. Even with lining the envelope – I tend to cut out two liners at a time since the DSP is a lot thinner than card stock. That was you build up a stack of liners which makes dressing up your envelopes very quick.

See you tomorrow,

Liz