One Sketch, Two Cards

I love sketches and find them inspiring, especially when your mojo has left the building.  I fell in love with the SUDSOL Design Challenge #40 sketch as soon as I saw it and created two fun cards from it.

For my first card, I used Mardi Gras as the inspiration for my color scheme - purple, gold and green.  Every year when Mardi Gras comes around, it reminds me of my trip to New Orleans many years ago.  I fell in love with the sites, sounds and smells of that city and I am determined to get back there some day.

The main image panel I created by inking my stamps, misting with water, then stamping them on watercolor paper that I had misted with water.  Once that was dry, I stamped the outline images in Black Staz-On ink to define the flowers.  With a little more stamping and embossing, I quickly had a striking card a la Mardi Gras!

Stamps:  Flower Fancy, Many Happy Returns

Paper:  Lovely Lilac, Glorious Green, Whisper White, Brushed Gold, Watercolor Paper

Ink:  Lovely Lilac, Glorious Gold, Versamark, Black Staz-On

Accessories:  Clear Embossing Powder, Stamp-a-Ma-Jig, Small Oval Punch, Large Oval Punch, Ticket Corner Punch, Gold Brads, Stampin' Dimensionals

I always love to see what a different look you can come up with by using the same basic sketch along with different stamps.   

I've started creating my own designer background paper, like I did when I first started stamping.  With all the wonderful designer series papers that are on the market now, I'd gotten away from taking the time to create my own, but I love the way you can create a paper that exactly matches the look and feel of whatever project you are working on.  Try it the next time you are stamping.  You won't be sorry you did.

Stamps:  Pinch Proof, So Swirly Jumbo Wheel

Paper:  Certainly Celery, Handsome Hunter, Brushed Gold

Ink:  Handsome Hunter, Certainly Celery Craft, Encore Gold

Accessories:  Iridescent Ice Embossing Powder, Gold Embossing Powder (non SU), Stamp-a-Ma-Jig, Key Tag Punch, Stampin' Dimensionals

Happy Stamping!

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