Perfectly Pears for Atlantic Hearts Challenge 636

Doing well this week on my playing 'just for fun' resolution! Today, I'm joining in with Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge.

I love a sketch challenge and this one was begging me to use the new Painterly Pears suite, just released in the Online Exclusives section of my store. 

I'm loving the beautiful images of fruit and flowers, the rich colours and the vintage feel of the stamps, dies and DSP. Of course, there are gorgeous embellishments too: a Mossy Meadow and Gold ribbon and pretty dots. 

This card came together pretty quickly, especially as I played the sketch in a straightforward interpretation. Three strips of Painterly Pears DSP with the ends carefully torn attached to a Basic White card front, embossed with the Exposed Brick 3D embossing folder. 

I cut a circle with one of the Spotlight on Nature dies and stamped the sentiment in Secret Sea before attaching it to the strips of DSP.

The pears were stamped in Old Olive and Darling Duckling then die cut. I added a die cut stem in Old Olive as well as some fruit blossoms. They were stamped in Secret Sea with Darling Duckling centres then die cut.

These bits and pieces were arranged on the circle, around the sentiment. Some were popped up to add dimension. The final touch was a trio of low profile Sparkle Dots in Secret Sea.  All done!

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Painterly Pears for Freshly Made Sketches 690

 

My pre-order for the next Online Exclusive drop in July arrived during the week, so I'm having a bit of an explore around the suite to see what it can do. My pick was the Painterly Pears suite - a bit out of my comfort zone being fruit based but it's got such a lovely vintage feel, I've given it a go. 

For inspiration, I've used the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches.

I've gone for a very straight forward sketch interpretation so I could play around with the DSP, the stamps and the die cuts from the Perfectly Pears bundle. 

The DSP that I've used is the moodiest of the lot, with a Secret Sea background and a profusion of flowers, pears and foliage. Certainly one to use in small doses! The reverse is a more restrained Darling Duckling hand-drawn grid which I've used for the second strip of the sketch. 

I stamped the pear in Old Olive and die cut it, adding leaves and stem from a larger die cut from the Perfectly Pears set. I built up the background using various die cuts from the set, mounted onto a circle from Spotlight on Nature. 

The sentiment, stamped in Secret Sea, is from the Perfectly Pears set but the label is from Stylish Shapes.

I finished off with a trio of Secret Sea Sparkle Dots, also a part of the suite.

The card base is also Secret Sea and I used the Exposed Brick 3D embossing folder for the front of the card. 

I'm happy with the result and now that I've seen the products in person and used some of them, I'm happy with my pre-order choice too! I think you'll be seeing more of this suite!

These products, and many others, will be available as Online Exclusives from 1 July. 

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