Monday, January 7, 2013

A Sunday Sketch for a Merry Monday

Happy Monday to everyone! Today my youngest headed back to school, I start back to work tonight on my regular schedule and 2013 takes off. I don't believe in resolutions but one of my goals this year is to stay on track with all the challenges I like to play along with. It's not always easy to find stamping time with all that I have going on but I am going to work harder at trying to make time!

This card combines 2 challenges....Sunday Stamps has a great sketch and Merry Monday is back, this time with a color challenge for us.

I decided to ink up the hostess set Christmas Wishes, which was offered in the holiday mini. I loved it the minute I saw it and ordered back in Oct.2012 but it hasn't seen ink until today, isn't that sad? That's another goal of mine...I have well over 100 Christmas stamp sets of SU alone and I want to make sure that each and every set gets used this yr!

For the strip of paper that comes out from the banner, I kept it the same as the main embossed background. I had tried some DSP in that spot and didn't like it, so I went simple and just added another snowflake layer with some brads on the end. In person the embossed layer looks really nice against the main panel. The balloon is popped up with dimensionals.

My 14 yr old son saw the card and he asked why they had Santa in a hot air balloon and not a sleigh with reindeer. I told him because they were just being creative and he looked at the image again and went "oh". LOL Guess he is like his mom and is a bit more literal when it comes to things!

Make sure you head over to both challenges and check them out, they are great fun to play along with!
 


Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):
Stamps: Christmas Wishes(retired hostess), More Merry Messages(inside sentiment)
Paper: Pool Party, Confetti White, Candlelight Christmas DSP, Festival of Prints DSP
Ink: Pool Party, Real Red, Island Indigo
Accessories: Big Shot, Snow Burst EF, Real Red Brads, sponge, dimensionals
 

13 comments:

  1. This is awesome Lisa!! Love that sweet balloon and the embossing! You have used the colours perfectly!

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  2. Love your card Lisa. The embossing, the papers and that cute balloon image with santa. Thanks for joining us for our first challenge of 2013 at Merry Monday.

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  3. Cute card, Lisa! I love the Santa in the balloon. I finished my card for the challenge tonight, but need to wait until morning to take a picture when I have good light. Feels good to be card making again!

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  4. Super cute card, Lisa! Love the dsp panels, the embossed background and this cute image! Thanks for playing along with us this week over at Merry Mondays! :)

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  5. What fun, Lisa! Maybe Santa gave the reindeer some R&R! He looks very handsome in the balloon! Thanks for sharing him with us at Merry Monday!

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  6. Love your card Lisa! The added texture really makes these colours pop. Great job with our sketch. Thanks for joining us at Sunday Stamps, hope to see you again soon :)

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  7. Fabulous card Lisa, I love santa in an air balloon that is so fun. I love all the texture too. Thank you for joining us for Merry Monday this week.

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  8. Super cute LIsa.. You can't beat a Santa in a Hot air Ballon! Maybe the reindeer were on a break? Thanks for playing along with us at Sunday Stamps.

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  9. I love your card!! Beautiful color choices. Thanks for inspiring me! Thanks for playing this week. I hope you enjoyed my card sketch.

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  10. So cute and bright and fun! Love it, Lisa. Glad to see you joining us this week with this fab card :)

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  11. Adorable....I wonder why I overlooked that cute hostess set when it was in the catalog! It's so fun! Thanks for the link to the sketch challenge blog, too...a new one for me! Thanks for playing with the Merry Monday challenge this week!

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  12. Great card. The colours are fabulous and the balloon really pops! Thanks for playing along with us over at Sunday Stamps!

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  13. Lisa this is such a gorgeous card - love the embossed balloon and the clean lines of your card! Thanks for joining us this week at Merry Monday!

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