Sketch Stars!

There were so many amazing takes on Amy's gorgeous sketch! You guys reallllllllly made it hard to feature just three, when every single card had some wonderful bit of inspiration; thus we highly recommend a scroll down to the readers' gallery. Meanwhile here are a few we found especially awesome:

Deepti of Dee's Art Utopia

...layered fabulous fussy-cut bells over an utterly dreamy emboss-resist background for a card that's clean and simple in the best possible way!

Kim M. of Art Keeps Me Sane

...used one of the most handsome bird stamps we've ever seen and colored it to look absolutely realistic! (Plus check out those sparkly icicles!)

Tesa B. of Tesa's Scrap

...knows a thing or two about choosing the perfect paper and then letting it do most of the work for you; but her pearls, twine and stamped presents add amazing texture and intersest! 

Once again we thank everyone who participated and offer an especially huge gratitudinal shout-out to the lovely Amy Tsuruta for her inspiring sketch and great company! We'll be back at midnight with a new prompt that may have you hearing the pitter-pattern of little feats! :)

Jingle Sketch Rock

We're still having fun with Amy Tsuruta's fabulous sketch this week ... we hope you'll join us to make one (or two or three?) holiday cards.

Here's what we created:

Stephanie's Other Card

Stephanie say, "I will confess I've become a bit obsessed with Pocket Cards (Project Life Cards) for cardmaking ... this one was perfect with a bit of flair and an embossed background."

Lauren's Other Card

Lauren says, "If you're thinking this is an incredibly *MINIMAL* card for me, you're not the only one! What can I say? Amy T's gorgeous sketch and beautifully minimal cards have inspired me to pare down... for this week, anyway! Apart from anything else, this lovely Christmas-in-the-City scene from October Afternoon's "Holiday Style" collection was just too cool to cover up; to use as large a piece as possible I made a tall card with just a few little embellies added in."

Sketch-tivus for the Rest of Us

Yes, you've guessed it, we're going sketchy this week... and who better to help us with such an endeavor that than our uber-talented lovely guest star and sketch creator extraordinaire, Amy Tsuruta. Here's the beautiful sketch she's whipped up to inspire us:

Here are the cards we've made this week:

Amy's Cards

Lauren's Card

Lauren says, "One way you can tell an AWESOME sketch from a merely good one is that you can make a tall card, a wide card, or even a square card, and have them all be equally fab. I went with wide this week because it just seemed to give my diecut sheet music reindeer and his cluster of frilly embellishments a little more room to breathe!"

Stephanie's Card

Stephanie says, "When I saw the over-layed embellishments in the sketch, I remembered some 3-D ornament gift tags in my stash.  Since they were glittery, I my favorite DCWV glitter papers on the background.  A few snowflake sequins and a tiny holiday sentiment, and this card was complete."

And now it's your turn to make a holiday card using Amy's gorgeous sketch! Link it up right here by 6pm (EST) on Wednesday, September 24th. Keyword for galleries or flickr is JB:14:19.

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