Thank you to everyone who entered into JayDee's CAS Floral Challenge last week. Great entries!
This week, Claire is our hostess and she has a lovely sketch challenge for us to play with. I love a sketch and I especially enjoy seeing the different cards that come from the same starting point.
I was going for a masculine card so reached for the Gears & Textures bundle. The various gears and steam-punky bits are a lot of fun and look different with a switch up of colour and arrangements.
I took my colour choices from a scrap of Nature Walk DSP. The pointy shape was cut down from the last remaining triangle of that pattern and fortunately, worked in well with the sketch! I eked out enough of the reverse from another scrap to use the reverse side for the horizontal - ask me why the strip is that width!
The sketch had some curly elements in the horizontal, so I added in some die cuts in Early Espresso. In the interest of adding in some other colours to lift it, I added in a third die-cut in Pecan Pie for the centre.
The large cog was cut from a scrap of the bronze sheet in Metallic Textured Specialty paper. The circle is cut from Early Espresso and, although it's hard to see in the photo, stamped with Early Espresso ink splatter to add some texture.
I wanted something subtle to emboss the background with, so went to the retired (but very useful) Subtle embossing folder. I'll bet many of you still have this one in your stash!
The sentiment is from Sweet Jar, stamped in Early Espresso and cut with a banner from Stylish Shapes.
The embellishment is a trio of Pecan Pie dots from the Natural Matte Dots pack.
I'd love to see what you do with this sketch!
Here's a quick recap of our challenge rules:
- Create a new paper-craft project specifically for this challenge.
- Upload your creation to your blog with a link back to us.
- Please provide a direct link to the post featuring your challenge entry.
- Please link your card to no more than four challenges, TOTAL, including ours
- Have fun, and thank you for playing with us!
Don't forget to check out the great inspiration from the rest of the design team.
Anne Marie Hile (on leave)
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This card is amazing, Jan! I love the urban feel and that you pulled off this fantastic masculine card made me smile. The browns and copper combined is perfect. All the different elements work perfectly together. Just WOW! Thank you for making my sketch shine! Have a great week, My Friend!
ReplyDeleteThat subtle background will never grow old. This card is a fabulous take on the sketch. More importantly, it's great to see an amazing design. Masculine cards are tough for me! Love it, Jan.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Cindy! I was really happy with how it turned out, since it really started with a scrap of paper and evolved from there!
DeleteThis is such a "boss" card---I love all those masculine elements, and everything is so crisp and sharp and perfect! Great for any guy, whatever his tastes are!
ReplyDeleteWOW, Jan! What an absolutely perfect masculine card! I love the clean vibe and the metallic shine. Have a wonderful week!
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