SEP SID- Raise a glass

Hello all and welcome to September! Fall is on the way and I can't wait. Here is our sketch for September Stick It Down challenge. 

I kept pretty true to the sketch this month and fun creating the background with some distress oxide and die cut for interest. I asked a friend of mine what kind of card she wanted for her birthday... she said some with drinks or maybe tropical theme. I decided to blend them and she loved it! The drinks do have some glossy accent on them to make them look more like glass and I love the look of the little beads on the foam. I added them on some vellum before putting them on the card. 

Here is a closer look at the details on the beer glasses. 

Hope to see you over on the new Facebook group with your card based on the card sketch or one of our scrapbook layouts! If you aren't a member yet please see the post here for the link. We all love to see how you use the sketches. Thanks so much for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Monica

Aug SID- Leafy hello

Hello friends and welcome to August and my card for Stick It Down card sketch. We are changing things a bit if you haven't heard you can read the details on the Stick It Down blog here.  We are not going away just moving a bit. Here is our card sketch this month.

For my card I started with using some Distress Oxides to color a scrap of white cardstock. Then I die cut my leaves and glued them to a layer of white cardstock, before cutting it down a little smaller. I decided I liked the idea of a thin colored layer of cardstock behind the leaf panel, so I used the same ink to match the layer with my leaves. I then added it to a cardbase. I die cut my sentiment out of a scrap of pattern paper left on my "mesk" using an old favorite hello die. Since my background and my hello were both a little busy with colors I layered my hello on some vellum and adhered it to the card. 

Now to send this tropical, summery and very Gold Girls like card to someone... "Shady Pines, Ma!"

Hope to see you over on the new Facebook group with your card based on the card sketch or one of our scrapbook layouts! If you aren't a member yet please see the post here for the link. We all love to see how you use the sketches. Thanks so much for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Monica

July SID- Happy Fourth

Hello all and welcome to my card for the July Sketch over at Stick it Down and yes it's a 4th of July card, but forgive me... as we crafters like to work ahead when we can. Right?! I can not believe we are already over halfway through summer... my kiddos are not ready to go back to school! 

I followed the sketch pretty closely... of course I feel like having either the red cardstock embossed or something to give it texture would've made it more significant in the background would have been a better choice, 

Here is a close up of the details, so you can the stickles a little better.

Hope to see you over at Stick It Down with your card based on the card sketch or one of our scrapbook layouts! Love to see how you use the sketches. Thanks so much for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Monica

JUN SID- Happy 4th!

Hello and welcome to my card for the June 2023 Stick It Down card sketch. I love this sketch because depending on your style you could use it so many ways. Patterns like I did, die cuts, stencils or embossing and have soo many different types of looks. 

I started with picking out some coordinating papers from Doodle Bug and layering them on some navy cardstock. I cut out a star using Lawn Fawns Puffy Star die in the same navy cardstock. Stamped my sentiment on a little scrap of white cardstock, layered with a little piece of red and white striped paper. Added it all to a card base and then adhered some clear stars with one colored by a red Copic. 

Hope to see you over at Stick It Down with your card based on the card sketch or one of our scrapbook layouts! Love to see how you use the sketches. Thanks so much for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Monica

May SID- Welcome home

Hello all! I can't believe May is almost over already, but regardless welcome to my post for the May Stick it down card sketch. 

I die cut word home out of a kraft card stock. Instead of using making each letter a different pattern I used a floral print as a base, so that it would peek through the letters and a little on all the sides. To finish the card I added a little bow and some bling. Its a simple card but I love that you can see the pretty paper through letters.

Hope to see you over at Stick It Down with your card based on the card sketch or one of our scrapbook layouts! Love to see how you use the sketches. Thanks so much for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Monica

APR SID- Birthday gifts

Hello and welcome to my post for the April Stick It Down card sketch.  

Here is my card for this month. I made a card using some scraps from my desk again. I don't know about you but I tend to hold to way toooo many scraps that I usually don't use, so I'm trying to add them where I can. Since I used a bright and slightly pattern paper for the half of the card panel, I left the other half just white and embossed it to add a little detail. I stamped the image in grey and added some pick to match one of the colors in the pattern paper. The happy birthday in the image is white and I didn't think it stood out enough so I colored it in with a black glitter marker. I also used a clear glitter brush marker over the pink  ribbons and added some bling to finish the card. 

Here is a closer look at the glitter markers on the the ribbon and sentiment. 

Hope to see you over at Stick It Down with your card based on the card sketch or one of our scrapbook layouts! Love to see how you use the sketches. Thanks so much for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Monica

Mar SID- Flying by to say...

Hello and welcome to my post for Stick It Down's March card Sketch.  

I decided I wanted to use some scraps from my scrap bin for my card. I found the hot air balloon paper and thought it was a perfect compliment to the Hero Arts set I picked up from a local store recently. I adhered the pattern papers to my card base. Using some Catherin Pooler inks to coordinate I stamped a hot air balloon, clouds and my sentiment to a panel of white cardstock to add as my top layer. Added a few sequins and gems to finish it off. 

Using pattern paper helps to make a quick card and I just love the colors together!

Hope to see you over at Stick It Down with your card based on the card sketch or one of our scrapbook layouts! Love to see how you use the sketches. Thanks so much for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Monica