~Diane Z’s Blog Sketch Challenge~
July 18th, 2008 by Holly McMillen
Happy Friday!
So…. a few us (DD/DDA) were chatting about all of our stamping friends heading off to CHA in Chicago and leaving the rest of us behind. We had a momentary pity party, then decided we would have some fun while they are all gone. So, Emily came up with the idea of some blog challenges to keep us busy.
Today I went with Diane Z’s (cookiestamper) sketch challenge seen on her Papercookies blog. Holy cow was this a tough one. First, I was stumped by the ‘heart’…… I took it literal and went with the only heart stamp I could find. Then I had to work around my lack of wide ribbon. This ‘christmasy’ ribbon is all I had, so it really dictated the colors I had to use. Hmmm… I think it came out ok, but after looking at Diane’s sample, now I wish I had added something in the bottom left corner… I may still!
Here’s my deets:
Stamps: Always by SU!
Colors: Garden Green, Real Red, GP White
Ink: Brilliance Graphite Black, versamark, garden green, Tim Holtz firebrick red distressing ink
Accessories: brads, wide ribbon, dimensionals, scissors, green and red EP, HPH, stipple brush
TFL!~ and have a blessed day!
This looks great Holly! I love your collaged background for the bird!
This is lovely! Love how you trimmed the end of the ribbon, too! ;0)
It looks fantastic!! I love the layout and colors!! Great ribbon too!