Friday, August 31, 2012

The Sky's the Limit

The current sketch at Skipping Stones Design is fabulous.  I really, really liked the floral image that was on the sketch, but since I make a lot of floral cards, I created a kite instead.  My card began with the kite and some scrap pieces of patterned paper. I cut a diamond shape from cardstock and adhered the patterned papers to it. The cross pieces were cut from the same green cardstock that I  used to mat the kite.  I added green embroidery thread for a tail and mounted the kite with dimensional adhesive onto a cloud background that I created with chalk. Using my sewing machine, I stitched around the outer edge of the cloud circle then pulled the stitching away leaving the pointed edge.  I matted the cloud paper and the kite onto a piece of green embossed paper and printed the sentiment onto white cardstock  then cut around the words creating a cloud shape.

Supplies:
Background paper: K&Company Embossed Specialty Paper
Striped patterned paper: Oriental Trading Christmas Stack
Light green marbleized patterned paper, designed by my son
White cardsock
White card base
Blue Chalk and Sponge
Eraser

4 comments:

  1. Gorgeous Card Brenda, and not just because it is in my fav colours. I love the simplicity and style you have created. Oh and congrats on your win in my sketch challenge.

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  2. Adorable!!! Thanks for joining us for this weeks Skipping Stones Design sketch challenge!

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  3. Really clever to use the clouds for your sentiments! Love! Thanks for sharing your talent with Skipping Stones Design this week!

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  4. Love the paper pieced kite! Thanks for joining us at SSD this week :) CYndi

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