Here's my card for this month's Dirty Dozen Central Theme - Touchable Texture. I used this week's Sketch Challenge Forums at Splitcoaststampers for the layout.
I started with a Whisper White card base. The next panel of Whisper White cs was embossed with SU's Petals-A-Plenty Impressions Folder. (Oh, love this embossing! You can't help but touch it.) I then added a strip of Textured Old Olive cs with a Whisper White Jumbo Brad. For my main panel, I started with Border Blue cs and stamped the stars with VersaMark. On Whisper White scraps, I stamped the shorter tree with Craft Old Olive and the bigger tree with a combination of VersaMark and Always Artichoke ink and clear embossed both. I cut them out and set them aside. I grabbed some more Whisper White scraps, tore the top edges and applied Dazzling Diamonds along the edges with my Two-Way Glue Pen. I then put my snowy together and added the Merry Christmas rub-on.
After all this - I realized that I had some how gotten a small blue smudge on the white card base! Oh! No! That's okay, though, it was an opportunity to embellish, so I snagged the corner stamp from the set, inked it up with Old Olive and stamped right over that smudge. Phew! Crisis averted! LOL...
TFL - Regina
Date: Thursday, November 19, 2009 GMT Views: 2063
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Thu, Nov 19, 2009 @ 9:16 AM
How you took that sketch and came up with this is beyond my comprehension. This is so totally creative and definitely shouts of wintertime. Great card.
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Thu, Nov 19, 2009 @ 2:21 PM
I just Love this! Caught my eyes right away. Love the added embossed layer. White on white is great-I have not thought of this-Got to try it!
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Thu, Nov 19, 2009 @ 4:56 PM
Great smude control there Regina and it really added a pop to your card at the same time!!! What an AWESOME job you did with this sketch Regina. This is fabulous!! LOVE the glitter, snow drifts, trees, jumbo brad and ef. Love the addition of "blue" in the mix for the sky!! Great job!! TFS!
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