Two for One Great Sketch

 I really like this Freshly Made Sketch ...and all the DT designs.  I liked it so much that I decided to make two cards. I'm certain that I will keep this sketch for future cards, as well.  (I send cards to two friends each week, so am always considering new designs.)

A Shape for Sunday Stamps

This Sunday Stamps design was a real challenge for me, and then I found the zigzag die among my stack of dies.  It was an experiment with patterns that coordinated with the "brown paper" theme.  

            

 

It's Blue on Blue

Can You Handle The Pressure?: Anything Goes With A Twist of Blue On Blue (monochromatic)

Blue on blue...my long-time favorite color (purple has edged in lately) was the theme for this card. A new Kokorosa die was my choice for Can You Handle the Pressure?

Sympathy for Can You Handle the Pressure?

 The OPTIONAL TWIST for today's challenge is:

SYMPATHY

Anything goes with a twist of Sympathy

When I was digging in a drawer of stamps on sheets, this embossing folder popped up.  Sympathy!  I've had it for years but have never used it...until today.  I embossed a piece of patterned paper and then highlighted the embossing with matching color of ink on a blending brush. The die cuts in cardstock matching the card base were applied below the embossing. Can You Handle the Pressure?

Stencils and Dies for Just Add Ink

 

For this Just Add Ink challenge, I die cut the butterfly from a piece of slick patterned paper from my bottomless stash.  The piece behind the butterfly was stenciled in metallic gold and Distress Vintage Photo ink. The card is a yellowish-colored heavyweight cardstock. 

The Wonky Shape Sketch

 A "Wonky Shape"  wasn't difficult for this Freshly Made Sketch but deciding what to put on that shape took more thought.  As it was, I dug out an unused die and then an unusual quote to finish it off.  (I'm an old stamper with many wood-mounted stamps; in spite of a major "clean-out" I kept many quote stamps that I just don't find in stamp companies now.)

  

The Goddess for Just Add Ink

The sketch for Just Add Ink is really a simple one, but I spent a lot of time deciding what to do; I'm still not certain that I stayed with the sketch.  I decided on the image first because I'm digging through open drawers of old and new-unused stamps.  I settled on The Goddess from Lost Coast, a simple piece of rubber that is now 20 years old.  She's one of a handful of dramatic images that I used to use two decades ago.  I stamped the goddess on a piece of ombre colored paper; choosing the background took more time.  Finally, I decided on another ombre piece and pulled out a huge wood-mounted script stamp to create that background.  One piece of black cord coordinated with the black borders of each layer.