October Sketch

Hello! It's time for the October sketch, once again provided by the kind and generous Chari Moss:

Yes, there were circles last month and this month. Hey, it happens, and I embraced it. :)

Also, this month we're collaborating with CAS-ual Fridays (I LOVE their fonts!),

so you'll see me use their images on these cards.

Let's get started! First, my literal interpretation of the sketch:

I took some Basic Grey PB&J paper, used the blue cheesecloth-looking piece for my main layer, and cut three circles from a floral piece, making sure to get a bold, red flower each time. I stamped a sentiment from the CAS-ual Fridays Bold Wishes set onto a yellow scrap from the same Basic Gray pack.  Last, I layered it onto a Hero Arts Blush Mixed Note Card and added some Doodelbug yellow pearls to finish it off.

Next, I used the same orientation of the sketch, but it got a bit busier:

I decided that top circle needed to be the sun, and, having learned my lesson last month with the Hero Arts Clouds background stamp and too-bold of a blue ink, this time I went with the Hero Arts Envelope Liner background and Hero Arts Soft Sky ink. Much better, I think. :)

The CAS-ual Fridays sentiment was stamped on a large MFT die-cut cloud, and I cut more clouds, one for the bottom circle element of the sketch and the rest to balance things out. I rummaged in my paper stash for "something with a bit of blue and yellow and something else in it", and found this piece of Basic Grey Max & Whiskers. A few pieces of bling, and done! Oh, and in real life, the yellows are a closer match. My camera and I are not on speaking terms.

See that yellow circle for the sun? Well, I cut it out of the front of a Hero Arts Sunshine note card, and that's how this next card happened:

I left the hole there and stamped the sentiment on the inside of the card. I inked the leaves of one of the images from the CAS-ual Fridays Beanstalks set with Hero Arts Soft Leaf ink and colored the top with my Distress Barn Door marker, then stamped it. I stamped the sentiment over the image in Hero Arts black.

As for the sketch, I had to flip it over and backwards, like this:

I literally took the piece of paper, held it at the bottom corners, flipped it upside down, then hung it on my lamp. I did. Okay, back to the card:

For the arrows, I inked the Hero Arts stencil with my now-open Hero Arts white ink dauber. It's messy and wet, and I got a lot of bubbles, but the stencil shape came through. For the circles, I free-handed some Liquid Pearls, which explains why the top one is more of an oval. I highly recommend you put light dots around a real circle shape before you try this at home. Don't be like me.

Then since I was in a color rut, and because I wanted one more orientation of the sketch to try, I flipped it like this:

Then I dunno what happened, but something snapped in my brain and I started to chuckle, and I made this:

I had stamped the Envelope background with Soft Sand onto a piece of white, and it was abandoned on my desk, so I used it here. I cut some large white circles for the eyes, and some smaller brown circles for the eyes and nose. I only wish the background had some flocking on it. heh heh 

I was stuck for a sentiment until I found this one in the CAS-ual Fridays Exclamations set. Perfect! HA! I might need a nap.

That's it for this month's sketch. Just a reminder: The sketch segment here at ABNH is not a separate challenge and there is no linky below. It's just for added inspiration and to help jump-start your mojo. Please feel free to incorporate the sketch in your creations! If you do, please link back to ABNH and also leave a comment below with a link to your post so we can all come by and see what you've done with it. :)

Don't forget to play our current You Better Shape Up challenge! There's a Simon Says Stamp Gift Voucher up for grabs for one lucky player!

Supplies for Card 1:

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Supplies for Card 2: A Muse Studio cloud dies (for the smaller ones), and the following:

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Supplies for Card 3:

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Supplies for Card 4: Core'dinations brown remnant and the following:

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September Sketch

Hello! Leslie here, with the September Sketch, once again provided by the lovely and talented Chari Moss. Here's the sketch:

First I did a pretty literal interpretation and made this:

I took the opportunity to mix and match paper patterns, and just used a variety of circle dies. For the smaller circles, I used various small punches and topped them with pearls. Even with the pearls, I think it would work for a guy or gal - BONUS!

Next, I used the same orientation, but girl'd it up with flowers:

Please pretend that top flower isn't getting ready to take flight. Sorry about the poor leaf placement. ;/ For this one I only did the three larger circle elements and let the "bubble" paper do the work of the other circles in the sketch.

Note: With the first card, I used two papers to get the dividing line in the sketch, where with the second card I used one paper with a line of card stock for ... the line. Also, with the second card, I didn't use exact placement with the circles, but I think it is still close enough to the sketch to pass muster.

For my third and last card, I turned the sketch like this:

and I made this:

This did not work out as I'd planned. I was not going for a more-is-more card, not at all! I wanted to use a light blue for the background so it wasn't so in-your-face, but nooooooo, I don't have a light color of blue ink, so I had to use a brighter blue. I spent the rest of my time trying to tone it down. :(

The first thing I did was add the yellow sun, which helped. It's one of the two larger circles in the sketch. I then die-cut two clouds (because there weren't enough clouds there already) so I could pop them up for the other two larger circle sketch elements, but they disappeared into the background, so I colored them with a C00 Copic, because as you know, clouds in the sky are not all pure white, so yeah, that worked.

The sequins at the bottom are the smaller circles in the sketch, and the strategically-placed sentiment banner hides more of the clouds. Please ignore the boo-boo next to my obligatory hand-drawn birds. I had sequins there and it was just over-powering. Not willing to start over, I pulled them off, then dipped my stylus in the ink pad and "painted" the exposed card stock. Sigh.

Here's a side-by-side in case you can't see the sketch in that last card:

That's it for this month's sketch. Just a reminder: The sketch segment here at ABNH is not a separate challenge and there is no linky below. It's just for added inspiration and to help jump-start your mojo. Please feel free to incorporate the sketch in your creations! If you do, please link back to ABNH and also leave a comment below with a link to your post so we can all come by and see what you've done with it. :)

Don't forget to play our current Buttons challenge! There's a Simon Says Stamp Gift Voucher up for grabs for one lucky player!

Supplies for card 1: misc small circle punches, and the following:

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Supplies for card 2: misc black pebbles bling-y stuff, and the following:

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Supplies for card 3: misc twine, Neat & Tangled sequins, sentiment from a Hero Arts/Studio Calico set from a class I took, and the following:

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