OCC Sketch Challenge

This is my sample for this week's sketch challenge at Our Creative Corner. Our March host, Kim Teasdale, put this one together. I would encourage you to stop over and leave Kim some love for becoming one of the newest Dirty Girls on the Splitcoaststampers Dirty Dozen Design Team!!!

Okay, I love this sketch! This was a fun challenge and felt more like play than a challenge. I {finally} used the sweet pea stamp from my Echoes of Kindness set. I stamped it with Stazon on watercolour paper and coloured it with Distress Ink re-inkers. I pulled out one of my all time favourite background stamps, French Script, to stamp over the sweet pea. Since the blossoms were still slightly wet, the ink from the script bled into the flowers so there's not much evidence of script on top of the flowers. I love the way that happens, but it only works if the over stamp is a fine line stamp without being a dense design.

I used sandpaper on the designer paper and then sponged the sanded edges. I dirtied up the grommet (new from the spring occasions mini) with adirondack alcohol ink so it blended with the vintage feel of the rest of the card.

Well, this one may be a keeper - I love it. Don't forget to take a look at what the other OCC designers came up with. You can see all the samples together on the OCC blog, as well as individually on the designers' personal blogs:

• Cindy Haffner
• Frances Byrne
• Jennifer Meyer
• Jenny Gropp
• Kim Teasdale
• Laurie Schmidlin
• Lori Boyd
• Robin Willis
• Silke Ledlow
• Vicki Garrett

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

stamps; echoes of kindness, french script (SU!)
paper; life's journey (K&Co), auckland, brown (bazzill), ivory linen, medium weight white vellum (paper accents), cold press water colour paper
ink; timber brown stazon (tsukineko), mellow moss, always artichoke (SU!), faded jeans broken chine reinkers, antique linen, tea dye, vintage photo (distress ink by ranger), adirondack alcohol ink (ranger)
accessories; sliver grommet (SU!), aqua twill ribbon (martha stewart), sage/brown ribbon (may arts), textile emboss folder (provocraft), large, small and scallop oval nestabilities (spellbinders), silver brads (making memories)