Sketches {by Tamara} #26

Here's my card for this week's sketch on the Sketches {by Tamara} blog. It is a long, tall, card--the very first one I've ever done like this. It was a fun size to work with.

I used a set I just got in a trade with another SCS member (great way to get "new" sets to replace unused ones in your collection, by the way . . .). Big Blooms was in the spring mini catalog in 2007 and I really, really liked it then but decided I could resist it, especially since I had just purchased another big floral set (Bodacious Bouquet). When the new catalog came out, I got Ginormous Flowers, which is similar, but just not the same. So, I was thrilled to get the chance to trade for it.

I stamped the flower image two times on scraps of Very Vanilla cardstock and cut the flowers out. I put brown buttons in the flower centers using glue dots. I bent the petals forward just slightly and attached the flowers to the vanilla cardfront using dimensionals.

The stem in the Big Blooms set was shorter than I wanted to use here, so I used the stem from Bodacious Bouquet and the leaf, too. I inked the leaf using the rock and roll technique to give it a darker edge.

You can see the sketch and what the other design team members created using the sketch, on Tamara's blog. If you give the sketch a try, be sure to stop back here and leave a comment with a link so I can check out your version.

Materials Used:
Big Blooms, Bodacious Bouquet, and Warm Words stamp sets, Cool Caribbean, Certainly Celery, and Always Artichoke Classic inks, Cool Caribbean, Very Vanilla, and Kraft cardstock, Chocolate Chip marker, spring green grosgrain ribbon, glue dots, dimensionals; twine, buttons (Walmart); brad (Creating Keepsakes)