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Tuesday 12 August 2008

Sketch Saturday


As I needed a birthday card for a customer before the weekend I decided to have a go at this sketch challenge. It took me ages to get it right, I had the idea in my head but none of the bits seemed to work, the air was a lovely shade of blue for a while :).
Anyhoo, I decided to go with this image and matching papers from Joanna Sheen's Jayne Netley-Mayhew cd. I decided that the puffins would be perfect as the card is for a Shetlander and we have lots of puffins here. I decided to use a dark blue card and then covered the front with one of the matching backing papers. Then for the horizontal element I used a strip of the blue card and a strip of silver mirri card embossed with the swiss dots. For the vertical element I used the dark blue card again and matted a strip of the second matching paper onto it. The topper was matted and layered twice onto dark blue and silver mirri. I hope you like it

12 comments:

  1. This is such a lovely card Beryl and perfect for the area you live in. Puffins always look so sweet.

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  2. It's lovely Beryl. I've never been sure about using the backing papers that repeat the main image but having seen this card I can see it works really well. Thank you.
    Beryl T xx

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  3. You should have a go at Glenda's competition Beryl. I always think that other people's cards are far better than mine but I still have a go.The cards you have done for other challenges are great so why not enter this one - you never know- you could win the prize.
    Beryl xx

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  4. Fabulous card Beryl, I love it...

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  5. Oh isn't this just card adorable!! fab puffins, they're quite cute aren't they, i'd not noticed before!

    Thank you for joining in this week, I do hope you will again Beryl

    Jo xx

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  6. I'm so pleased that you will join in again, there's LOADS of challenges out there, as you blog hop around you'll find more and more to take part in, some get you to try techniques that you haven't tried before, getting you out of your comfort zone, but it's so rewarding, and another great advantage to blogland.... you make lots of new friends! ;)

    Jo xx

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  7. Hi Beryl, linked to you through Kim Fee's Blog. Your cards are gorgeous - really different colours and shapes. So clever. Juniemoon x

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  8. A lovely card Beryl - fab image used perfectly for the sketch!

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  9. Oh wow! I love this so much! My mum is mad on puffins, she'd love this! LOL!

    A really refreshing card. Brilliant!

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  10. Gorgeous card Beryl!! Thanks for joining my Candy! Good luck;)
    Hugs, Camilla.

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  11. wow another fabulous card, love the image on this one. hugs rach.xx

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  12. Wow, this is fabulous Beryl - love the image!! If you're looking for challenge blogs there is a whole list of them with links on my blog lol

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