Beauty and the Beastly SFYTT Sample

Good morning friends! It's true, I have a beauty and a beast, today, First up, of course, is the beauty - well, I think so, anyway. Can't go wrong with pink and green, right? This is my sample for today's sketch challenge at Our Creative Corner. You can find the sketch, plus samples from the OCC designers over on the OCC blog. I'm really, really, really excited to help welcome THREE new designers to the OCC Crew, Kim Teasdale, Jackie Pedro, and Silke Ledlow, and this week's guest designer, Shannon Erskine! What talent! And Shannon was even sweet enough to provide this week's prize, a new stamp set called Owlentine by Treehouse Stamps! All the details for how to enter the drawing are posted on the OCC blog. Hope you can play!

For more designer chitchat on the cards, please visit the designers' individual blogs:

Cindy Haffner
Dawn Easton
Denise Marzec
Jackie Pedro
Jennifer Meyer
Julee Tilman
Kim Teasdale
Laurie Schmidlin
Lynda Benden
Silke Ledlow

My card features a Scripture stamp from Lift Up Our Hands, one of the two new sets from Our Daily Bread Designs. I paired it with some K&Co patterned papers, a flower cluster, and a cross charm for a soft, peaceful look.

And now, here's my sample for Jen's Sketch for You to Try:



You'll find the sketch, Jen's sample, and our new January guest designer's sample at i{heart}2stamp. The rest of the SFYTT girls have samples as well:

Amy
Carole
Shannan
Susan

Oh my, I totally jinxed myself on this one - when Jen sent this month's sketches earlier this week, I emailed back how much I like today's, that it looked really HARD, but fun and unique. I should have stopped about 1/3 of the way in and gone with plan B, but I was being stubborn and kept pushing this idea forward. It actually doesn't look as bad now as it did earlier this morning when I {finally} went to bed, but it's still not my favorite card ever!

For this one, I pulled out Verve's Petals & Stems, the colors and one of the papers from my beloved SU Haiku pack, a metal charm, and a sentiment from Verve's Artful Elegance.

Thanks so much for stopping by, and I hope you have an awesome weekend planned!



"Beauty"
Stamps: Lift Up Our Hands (Our Daily Bread Designs)
Paper: Always Artichoke, Very Vanilla (SU), dp (K&Co.)
Ink: Always Artichoke craft
Accessories: SU ribbon, Martha Stewart punches, K&Co adhesive pearls, sewing machine, clear embossing powder, paper piercer, silver cord, charm from Lost & Found Collection by Blue Moon Beads

"Beast"
Stamps: Petals & Stems, Artful Elegance (Verve Stamps)
Paper: Old Olive, Whisper White, So Saffron, Haiku dp (SU!)
Ink: Old Olive, So Saffron, More Mustard, Tangerine Tango (SU); Versafine Onyx Black
Accessories: SU ribbon, burlap string (Pink Hedgehog Paper Crafts); paper piercer, Swiss Dots Cuttlebug embossing folder, dimensionals, Spellbinders tag die, Around the Block metal charm