Gettin' Sketchy...

Hey stamping friends!

I had such a fun time getting back into my stamping room for the MFT Sketch challenge and decided to do it again this week.  It's a SNOW DAY for me today (Not sure why because we have just a dusting of snow) so I headed into my stamping room with my pups and hunkered down for some all-day fun!

So here's the sketch:

Here's my first card:  

I just love the Pure Innocence stamps and they always put a smile on my face when I color them. This one is called "Better Get Better" and of course, it's retired.  I seem to only own retired MFT stamps right now GASP, so I know that's going to change this month.  I've already filled my shopping cart up a million times over!  LOL

I colored this little girl with Copic Markers.  These images don't take much time to color at all! Usually, I select the paper first- and choose Copic colors to match but this time, her dress and tights just called for a pinkish peach color (E01, E93, R22) and a little blue (B12, B97).  Teddy and her hair were colored with several brown colors (E09, 31, 33, 35, 37).  I used some standard peach colors for her skin (E21,50, 53, YR20).  Her shoes were colored with some warm gray colors (W3, 7) Teddy's bandages needed a bit of color too so I used Boooo and B52 to help them out.  

I popped the sentiment banner up on an oval Spellbinders die/coordinating scalloped die. Distressing the oval with Pixie Dust VersaMagic ink helped to add some depth and soften the appearance of the card.  The paper, well, that's from my stash.  I selected a piece of paper from the 6x6 My Mind's Eye "A Beautiful Life" paper collection that I've been hoarding for-ever!

My second card was created with the sketch elements swapped around enough.  After cutting out the scalloped oval for the previous card, I was left with a scrap perfectly suited for this card!

I stamped the xoxo sentiment with Versamark and heat embossed with clear EP.  Distressing a bit with a dry Onyx Versamark pad helped bring out more of the sentiment.  The background chevron image is from Recollections, and probably a few years old and hiding out in my stash-never used!  I stamped that image onto some lime green cardstock and clear embossed that too.  YUM!

The sentiment "LOVE" and the "xoxo" is also from a Recollections set I've had for a couple years and never used.  Coloring the sentiment with red watercolor and adding a bit of Stickles helped set the image.

I'm not one to use sequins on my cards but I find them quite fabulous on everyone elses cards, so I added a few here just for kicks.  :)

I hope you enjoy viewing these cards and I can't wait to check out all the other creations that are posted for this challenge!  See you later and thanks for stopping by!