Triple Frame

Time for another Tuesday Morning Sketches I found this one to be a challenge for me. I hope you will be inspired and share your own creation on the blog.

Here is the sketch:

I rotated to landscape and used the same paper for both side rather than a contrast. Dividing it diagonally by the same piece as the background.

I used a white card base, Old Olive cardstock from Stampin' Up!, and a patterned paper also SU!. Using multiple layers of deckle edged rectangle die, I made the frames. The center piece is white with Old Olive ink. 

I decided that was a fun card to make so I continued the sketch with 2 more cards. Do you tend to do that too-- While the dies or stamps are out, make duplicate cards.

And then I was left with the in-between frames so had to do something with them.

Those die cut stems are Tim Holtz and the paper SU!. 

I hope you have been inspired. Check out the other team members. Have fun with this sketch. And be sure to come back to share your design.

Santa's Train

 I know the kids will love these images. They are so fun.

The trains are from Stampin' Up! papers from last year. 

These are going in my box for Send A Smile 4 Kids. Their challenge this month is Holiday/Celebration Cards for Kids.

B/W Christmas

You don't usually think of black and white as Christmas card colors. But they can be quite elegant, calm, and peaceful. So I chose them for this week's Tuesday Morning Sketches

I appears as a slimline card. But you can make any size as long as the sketch is recognizable. I chose the standard A2 card.

I found the pre-made center panel (SU! retired) in my box of Christmas papers It goes well with the b/w snowflake paper. I added some silver and white glitter ribbon and some punched silver stars. I popped up the panel with foam tape.

I hope our sketch this week challenges and inspires you to make a card and share it on our blog.

 

Jack-o-Lantern

 Where did that name come from? I get the lantern part--what about the Jack? Maybe I need to Google it when I am done here. 

Anyway, I have a cute one to share 

for Can You Handle The Pressure--use an embossing folder with a twist of spooky. I used a circle E/F to mimic pumpkin shapers. Not sure if the pumpkin is very spooky. The sentiment is an old one from SU!

Autumn Masculine

 Some end pieces of plaids and dots from Carta Bella 6x6 paper. Then a loop of rafia, some die cut leaves and a sheaf of wheat behind the sentiment from SU on a punched label  Perfect fall masculine card.

Inside I did a computer made sentiment and added the rest of the dotted piece.

Entering this at Cardz 4 Guyz theme of autumn, shades of brown.

Also at The Card Concept (Autumn Chill).  My layered card was inspired by the fall leaves in the inspiration picture.

A loose interpretation of the sketch at Sketch Saturday turned to portrait.

Starry Night

There is a fun festive new sketch up for Tuesday Morning Sketches I hope you will give it a try. You know if you don't like stars, you may use another shape.

I used a dark grey for the card. Then a layer of a shimmery grey (which looks lavender in the photo) Then 3 strips of grey patterns from scraps. And 3 die cut silver metallic stars. I added a silver embossed sentiment. I can see now, I inverted the placement of the stars but that did leave more room for the sentiment.

Trees

 A new month, a new Tuesday, and a new sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches Are you making progress on your Christmas cards?  Christmas cards are usually pretty generic but I think this one has a bit more of a masculine feel.

I used a dark grey card base. Then a silver mat. The wood grain (retired SU!) is gray and silver. The tree strip is the back side of the wood grain. I stamped a fir tree in Evening Evergreen (SU!) on white and die cut with an oval. There is light blue sponged around the tree and shaded grey at the bottom.Dark green strips behind the oval are the same color as the tree.

Here is Tuesday Morning Sketches sketch for this week.

Come over to the blog and show us your creation with the sketch.

Non-traditional Colors

 For this week's Tuesday Morning Sketches I have done a Christmas card in non traditional colors. I used lime green with pink.

The pink paper has silver snowflakes and I backed that with silver metallic. For my scalloped portion, I used 3 vellum die cut snowflakes. For the circle element, I used a double layer of die cut snowflakes, silver in the background and then a vellum one on top. The sentiment is from SU, stamped and embossed with silver. Love all the shimmer and shine.

Here is the sketch

I hope you like this one will play along with us. Tuesday Morning Sketches

Bright Stars

 My card for the current challenge at Cardz 4 Guyz which is  stars

Stars are a great choice for masculine Christmas cards. You can have all the glimmer without being too fussy.

I recently purchased Brushed Gold cards and envelopes from Stampin' Up! They come with that gold along the edge on front and back of the card. To get twice the cards, I cut this one in two and used half on the front of a navy card base, leaving the other half for another card. The gold square is 3 1/4". The blue paper is 3" square. That blue paper had white stars so I colored each one with a gold gel pen, looks so much better with the gold on the card. The star is a giant sticker I found in my Christmas stash. The sentiment is SU! stamped in red and fussy cut.

Beautiful Poinsettia

 

I took a piece of vellum paper, scribbled on the back with shades of pink and sprayed with alcohol.  When that was dry, I turned the vellum over and stamped the poinsettias in Versamark and embossed with gold and die cut the 3 layers.

The poinsettia and dies are from Stampin' Up! I die cut the large flower in green vellum and cut it apart for leaves. The gold die cuts are also in the die set. Along the left edge is a strip of pink sparkly vellum paper.

The card base is a pre-embossed gold from Stampin' Up!. The sentiment is an old one also embossed in gold. 

Linking up to Let's Craft and Create. The challenge there is anything goes with a twist of using paper strips instead of ribbon.