CTMH | Papercrafting with Kelly Janes

Can you believe it?!? We have reached Sketch 100!

For my card, I started with a Colonial White Cardstock base and added a layer of B&T from the Seaside Paper Packet. I cut an oval from a scrap piece of Colonial White Cardstock and the focal point of the card is cut from a card included in the Skylark Picture My Life™ Program. I then added a (retired) wood veneer accent, few Brown & Tan Sparkles, and some stitching around the border.

Everyone at Atlantic Hearts Sketch challenge is so excited to celebrate this milestone with all of our followers and participants!! To celebrate sketch 100 we will be giving away some blog candy! All you have to do is visit our fabulous design team members blogs, leave a comment on their design for Sketch 100 and you are entered. We will be drawing several names at random from the comments. To increase your chances of winning, leave comments for all of the design team members! And to be fair, you can only win one time! Please invite your friends and family to join the fun!

Thanks again for being part of our challenge community and we are all looking forward to the next 100 fabulous sketches and your awesome creations! Now head on over to the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge to check out the other design team members cards!

-Kelly

For my card this week, I grabbed a retired Stamp of the Month (I can’t even remember which month it is from…I think April or May 2014). On White Daisy Cardstock, I used White Embossing Powder on the flower image and then watercolored the image using a waterbrush and multiple ink colors including: Thistle, Pixie, Hollyhock, Pear, Indian Corn Blue, Canary, and Glacier. Watercoloring using dye ink is a technique that I had forgotten about until I recently joined the Technique Toolbox: Creative Uses for Dye Ink Online Card Class. I’m loving the inspiration I am finding there!

I trimmed the white daisy cardstock while it was still wet (I got a little impatient!!) and the cardstock tore slightly but I thought it added charm to the card. I then used a small hole punch to create a divot in the cardstock and tied retired White Daisy Sassy Strands around the card. The sentiment is from the retired stamp set, Card Chatter-Sympathy in Indian Corn Blue Exclusive Ink™. After I had all of the elements on this card I matted the Glacier Cardstock onto a scrap piece of gray/blue cardstock that I had in my stash. I then added these layers onto a White Daisy Cardstock card base using Thin 3D Foam Tape and added a few (retired) Licorice Opaques for the final embellishments.

This week I wanted to give myself a challenge for the card I created for the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #98. I wanted to use product entirely from my stash. No new stamp sets, embellishments, etc. Being a CTMH consultant I have my fingers on new product constantly…which is AWESOME….but once a product retires I tend to throw it to the back of my stash and focus on entirely new. So this week I dove into my stash to use it up!!