Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Sketch Saturday (and why I don't try to make duplicate cards...)

We got a chance to celebrate the birthdays of two of our friends on Sunday, so I got to make two birthday cards, one boy card and one girl card. The boy card, for our 1-year-old friend Bobby is based on this sketch from Sketch Saturday:
I used some of the scraps from the calendar pages I am currently working on.  I love this smug looking frog from "Boys Will Be Boys".
 
Materials:
Cardstock- Bazzill, American Crafts
Patterned Paper- Target, Die Cuts With a View, October Afternoon
Ink- Clearsnap, Ranger
Stamp- Stampin Up
Embossing Powder- JoAnn Crafts
Punch- EK Success
Trim- The Robin's Nest
Die Cutter- Provo Craft
Cartridge- Boys Will Be Boys
Pen- Zig

I started by trying to make two cards with the same design so I could include one in the cards that I will be giving to my grandma for Christmas.  After realizing that my scraps were not big enough to make two identical cards, I abandoned that idea and decided to make two cards with different designs.  Even the second frog didn't turn out quite right and was missing part of its left foot (hence the scalloped circle accent covering it on the second card).

Materials:
Cardstock- Bazzill, American Crafts
Patterned Paper- Target, Die Cuts With a View, October Afternoon
Ink- Clearsnap, Ranger
Stamps- Hampton Arts
Punch- EK Success, Marvy
Die Cutter- Provo Craft
Cartridge- Boys Will Be Boys
Pen- Zig, Sakura


I also made this card for Bobby's big sister Annie who turned 3.  I didn't use a sketch for this one.  I just started pulling out items that were left of my Cosmo Cricket DeLovely collection and worked from there.  I love the little birds in this collection and started with those.  I haven't used this tree cut yet from "Cindy Loo", but I liked it to perch my bigger bird it.  To make it stand out, I added the dark circle to the background.  After that, things came together pretty quickly.
Materials:
Cardstock- Bazzill
Patterned Paper- Cosmo Cricket
Glitter Paper- Making Memories
Sticker- Cosmo Cricket
Trim- Target
Stamp- Hampton Arts
Ink- Clearsnap, Ranger
Embossing Powder- Jo Ann Crafts
Pen- Sakura
Die Cutter- Provo Craft
Cartridge- Cindy Loo

3 comments:

  1. A great collection of cards there and I absolutely love that frog!!Thanks for playing along this week with Sketch Saturday, Niki xx

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