Saturday, May 22, 2010

Sweet Sunday Sketch #70

Happy Sunday! You know what that means - Sweet Sunday Sketch time!! I'm a few hours late with my post. Oops! Like that's never happened before. Ha! We've just had a crazy busy weekend and I totally forgot to schedule my post. My card's been done and just as I was about to head to bed I was like "Oh Crap! My Sweet Sunday Post!". So here I am...

When I saw the flourish-y thing on the sketch I knew EXACTLY what I wanted to do. And this is SO out of character for me. I mean, this card took like 2 hours to make. ugh. But I must admit I love it.


That flourish is HAND CUT! It's a printed digi image from the Desmond & Molly Jones kit by Libby Weifenbach (Sweet Shoppe). Isn't it yummy? I resized it in Photoshop Elements, printed it out and used my hobby knife to cut it out. Then I used a bunch of neglected PTI stamps - Background Basics Text Style, Say It With Style, and the leaf is from In Bloom.

Oh, you wanna see the sketch? OK. Here it is...


Be sure to check out the other Sweet Sunday Stampers' blogs and see what they've done with the sketch:
Then play along with us and post your own creation using InLinkz over on today's post on Karen's Blog!

19 comments:

Unknown said...

This is so pretty! I've long wanted Say it With Style, the letters are gorgeous!

You hand cut that swirl, eeks girl, you're good!

Karen Giron said...

Hand cut?? That's where the 2 hours came in! haha! Or, not haha - but pure empathy here. :D
Love this card and I love the layered flowers with the buttons - so cute (if I do say so myself). You rocked this sketch!

Lisa Kind said...

Hi Jen! I cannot believe you hand cut that flourish! OMGosh the patience! LOL!! This is absolutely gorgeous! Great use of all your PTI stamps...the flowers are fabulous!

Anonymous said...

Holy moly....this is AMAZING!!! It was worth the two hours :)

Pam Speidel said...

Holy Moly Jen! You've outdone yourself with this fabulous creation!! I can't believe you cut the swirl by hand. That's impressive! Love this card! :)

Jackie Pedro said...

Welcome to the world of two hour cards!! This is flippin' amazing, jen!! I can't believe you cut that flourish by hand!!!

Sylvia Blum said...

ohhh.. this is beautiful! it must have been a LOT of work to cut out all the swirls *wow*

Vicki Burdick said...

Gorgeous with a capital G!!!! Amazing I LOVE the swirls and those awesome flowrs!!!!

Unknown said...

WOW, jen! this is gorgeous! love that flourish and those amazing blossoms! awesome job!

Mary J said...

Wow, what patience! I love that flourish - it was well worth it! Gorgeous card!

hanksmom said...

Hey! All my cards take 2 hours! It doesn't surprise me that you hand cut that flourish (which is BEAUTIFUL), but I'm not sure that you really made that card! I got to spend a little bit of time with Sarah this past week. I'm feelin' a Maui craft day is needed real soon. Love you!

Nancy Riley said...

I can't believe you hand cut that flourish! WOW! Your card is spectacular, Jen! LOVE those flowers too!

Lynn Put said...

Awesome card Jen! You hand cut that flourish wow! It looks great and I love the shabby chic layered flowers with buttons!

Ida said...

Wow what a wonderful job on your flourish. It's amazing and the flowers are just lovely. Awesome card.

Jodi Collins said...

This is STUNNING Jen! LOVE the colors and those amazing FLOURISHES!!!

Lea L. said...

What a fabulous card! Love the flowers, and the sentiment flag!! The cut out flourishes are awesome too!

♥♥♥Lea

Laura (scrapnextras) said...

Totally cute Jen! I love the flowers and your hand cutting is amazing!

jjcreations said...

Fantastic card for this sketch - love those flowers.

Nicki(CSS) said...

OMG that is an amazing embellie! Serious mojo here - love it!