2 Sketches 4 You - Week 29

Hi everyone, another sweltering day predicted, I think I almost melted yesterday it was so humid which I really don't like, hope you're all surviving if your weather is the same. A card today for 2 Sketches 4 You and a great sketch by Laura which I really enjoyed. As usual if I don't print out the sketch and try to do it from memory I usually get it wrong and in this case I've realised afterwards that I should have had a scallop edged strip and mine is plain! Hopefully it'll be ok.

I've stamped a BasicGrey ladybird from the dragonfly set by inking with distress ink directly onto the stamp with a brush and then going over it a bit afterwards, it's also been glittered with Stickles. After the stamping I embossed a frame around it using a square nestie and mounted mustard bazzil bling and black bazzil card. These layers were repeated adding some lovely red spotted paper from BG June Bug collection. The sentiment is from an Elzybells set and I've added a paper bow made from more of the June Bug paper. Everything is layered onto a white Papermania card blank and the image panel is raised with dimension tape. TFL. Chris x

Dare U 2 Digi Stamp Challenge 6 : 2 Sketches 4 You

Hi everyone and welcome to another Dare U 2 Digi Stamp Challenge where this week we have a special challenge sponsored by the fantastic Children's Charity Post Pals. Our Dare this week is

Gingham and Stitching

but also we would like you to give a sick child a smile by sending your card on to a deserving child through the Post Pals website. We really hope you can join us and help the children too. There's a fantastic prize on offer for encouragement which is sponsored half and half by Post Pals and DU2DS with a value of £20 and includes a Martha Stewart Punch, some pretty flowers and two digi stamps. We're delaying the drawing of the winner of this challenge to give everyone a chance to get their cards sent and we realise that many of our entrants are often outside the UK therefore the winner will be chosen randomly in two weeks time. As always there's some great inspiration from the delicious design team to get the mojo going and as usual your project needs to include a digital image.

I'm sending my card to Gaby, I hope she likes it although I've now read that her favourite colour is pink, the next one I send will be pink!

For my card this week I've followed the sketch on 2 Sketches for You which I thought was a gorgeous one and I've used my butterfly digi stamp soon to be available in the digi shop. I've water coloured the image with distress inks, cut out and applied stardust stickles and added some dimension by curling the wings and applying with some gel glue. The background paper is digi gingham that I printed out and I've cut and embossed a circle scalloped frame with nesties. TFL. Chris x