Clean and Simple Sketch Challenge
Hello all. Yes I’m still here but there is so much going on in our house at the moment I’ve hardly had a moment to get inky. We had the most wonderful school holidays this summer spending a lot of time down south over two separate holidays with fantastic families then arrived home a couple of days before school went back to gather all our belongings and get ready. The first day back at school went really well which is the first time in six years of schooling we haven’t had tears from one boy or the other so it was a welcome change. We also started some small home renovations on the same day so it certainly has been busy moving furniture, squishing into rooms and trying to keep the dust to a minimum. To some our changes would be small but to us they will impact immensely and I can’t wait to get stuck into changing things around. We have had a wall knocked down between our meals and play area and so now it will become one large kitchen/meals/family room and we are moving the playroom to the front lounge and have added double doors so we can close it off. It’s all very exciting and looks so amazing that we should have done it years ago!
Anyway, enough of that hey? Onto the reason I’m here today. I stumbled across this blog called Clean and Simple Stamping and just love the stylish cards with lots of white so decided to give their latest sketch challenge a go. Besides being crisp and neat, it was super quick and I need a few of those cards at the moment with the amount of birthdays I have in February!
Here is the sketch
and here is my take on it.
Stamp set: Fifth Avenue Floral, Occasional Greetings
Cardstock: Whisper White
Inks: Night of Navy, Kiwi Kiss, Baja Breeze
Accessories: Urban Garden DSP, Night of Navy grosgrain ribbon
I’ m sure I’ll be back for more of their challenges. Thanks for looking. Now I’m off to grab that duster again….
Cheers
Posted in Challenges
February 9th, 2010 at 11:57 pm
Lou, I LOVE this card! The colors and the way you’ve stamped them are just gorgeous. One of my all time favorites!!! I just found clean & simple last week and love it!
February 10th, 2010 at 5:07 am
Wow!!! How exciting about your renovations! Be sure to share some pics with us when their all done!!
Your card is just beautiful too Lou – I’ve missed ya!
Karen
x
February 10th, 2010 at 10:17 am
Love the simplicity. Elegant and gorgeous.
February 10th, 2010 at 11:40 am
SO gorgeous and simple Lou, how you found the time to do that with all that is happening at home. Vx
February 10th, 2010 at 12:16 pm
Hi Lou! -I am not really a fan of fifth avenue floral but I LOVE what you have done with it for this sketch! That DSP is just gorgeous too! Your renos sound great-don’t forget to post some piccies of that too!
February 10th, 2010 at 1:38 pm
This is totally fabulous!!
February 10th, 2010 at 4:56 pm
glad to see you have found some time to create and to post! It looks great. I love their challenges so clean and neat! and I love that stamp set!
February 10th, 2010 at 6:00 pm
Thank you for visiting and commenting on my blog.
Fabulous stamping and crisp color combo!
February 12th, 2010 at 9:49 am
Hey Lou, your reno’s sound fab & you’ll love your big living room
Love your card & thanks for the link to the site, I’m going to try oh so hard to get some more challenges done, seeing as they are the only things that are inspiring me atm
I’ve left a blog award for you on my blog too
Take care
Tan xox
February 13th, 2010 at 4:49 pm
This is just GORGEOUS! I love it!
February 14th, 2010 at 2:07 am
Wow! This is stunning! Love it!
February 15th, 2010 at 7:40 pm
Lou, that is absolutely gorgeous, so clean-lined and classy! Love it.
February 16th, 2010 at 9:04 pm
Hi Loupster,
Just love this card – fresh and gorgeous (a bit like you!). Loved seeing you today and sharing some stamping time. Looking forward to our next round!
Love and hugs, Nyster
February 26th, 2010 at 10:24 am
Lou, this card is just stunning – a perfect take on the sketch! I’m CASEing it right this second
S x