Friday, August 12, 2011

A La Card Monkey Guest Designer

Hello Everyone, Today I'm a guest designer on the challenge site A La Card Monkey. Fun! This week's theme is sympathy & a sketch.

I love "thinking of you" cards, so I knew I'd go in that direction. The Summer Mini catalog is ending August 31, so time to squeeze a little more play time with those stamps.

This is the a la carte stamp Sail Away. While on my design team duties over at Stampin' Up Only challenges, Margaret submitted a card with this stamp, colored with Stampin' Pastels. This really is the perfect image for pastels with the soft colors, so this also became a stamp club project.

Typically I sew on many of my cards, but I wanted to show the club girls a different way to create the stitched look with faux stitching.

Stamps: Sail Away, Teeny Tiny Wishes; Paper: Baja Breeze, Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Very Vanilla, Well Worn DSP; Ink: Early Espresso, Black Stazon; Accessories: Stampin' Pastels, Paper Piercer, Signo white gel pen, Word Window punch, Modern Label punch, Early Espresso Baker's twine, Square Lattice embossing folder, Big Shot, Dimensionals.

Thanks for stopping by!

9 comments:

Shirley Pumpkin said...

Heidi...

I love this card, it is so Beautiful! The lines are so clean and the why you colored the boat and water is Perfect!! Thanks for being a great GD.!

Hugs
Shirley

Yapha said...

What a gorgeous card! Great use of the theme and sketch. They are so lucky to have you as a guest designer!

Kim P said...

Love the softness of the colors...and the faux stitching. I don't sew anything except "faux" sewing! LOL

Paula said...

Great sketch. And beautiful card. Love it!

Shelley Z said...

Love the soft colors! Great use of the sketch too!

Cindy said...

Oh, Heidi, this is just GORGEOUS! I love the soft, dreamy quality of this. :-)

Sue said...

Very nice card! Love the additional elements you added, too!

Holly/Rubber Redneck said...

Beautiful card and beautiful job coloring!!

Sara Mattson-Blume said...

The pastels are perfect for this--amazing.