Posted by Holly McMillen @ 9:19 am

dianes-sketch-challenge.jpg   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!