Hi!  Are you ready for another amazing challenge from As You See It?!?  Loving them so much!!!  This one is another sketch challenge so I hope you’ll head over there and play along!  You have nearly a week to get your submission in so give it a try!

I made this card unnecessarily hard because I had a brilliant idea that ended up not working out.  I stamped the patterned arrow stamp from Oh, Hello twice in the center of the card and then masked off just one part of it to stamp on the outside of each side of that…seriously, if you want to re-create this effect, just stamp the stamp twice and then twice next to it!  🙂  I tried to create an ombré effect with Pool Party, Coastal Cabana, and Bermuda Bay inks.  I sponge daubered on Pool Party onto the very bottom two patterned shapes, then Coastal Cabana.  Then, when I stamped it the second time, I sponge daubered on Coastal Cabana then sponged Bermuda Bay on over the top of that and on the top two patterned shapes as well.  🙂  The only other technique I tried on this card was to cut the top note out of Bermuda Bay and Basic Black card stock and then cut around it at the stitching line on the Bermuda Bay piece.  I sanded the edges with the sanding block and adhered it to the Basic Black piece.  The Whisper White panel in the background is embossed with the Perfect Polka Dots folder.  Some Basic Rhinestone Jewels colored black highlight the center and tie the black back in.

I hope you enjoyed my project for today and hope that you’ll hop over there to see the rest of the projects by the design team, as well as be inspired to be creative yourself.  🙂