♥ OA sidewalks line and mother's day ♥

 good morning.    

today is Sketchy Thursday on the OA Blog and Stacey Kingman created a really fun sketch for us to work with.  i thought it would be fun to create 2 different interpretations of the sketch, two different mother's day cards (which is a couple of days away)

here is her sketch

fun sketch right? i loved that it could easily be adapted to create cards or layouts, the perfect sketch (in my card-making humble opinion...giggle)

mom card

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 on my first card, i rotated the sketch 90 degrees and created three small stitched panels at the bottom

 

 on my second card, i decided to stitch a block of different size argyle pieces as the three blocks and added the sun.

 mother's day card

i hope you'll stop by the OA blog to see what Stacey has created and upload to our Flickr Gallery when you have finished your interpretation of the sketch.


also, today is day #4 of my gdt posts over at the Jillibean Soup Card Kitchen.  here are two sneak of the cards that are up today on their blog.

 i hope you will stop by to see the rest of these two cards and check out the amazing designer gallery

thank you for visiting today.

hugs & so much love♥

danni

• let's get sketchy with OA •

if you are looking for the 9 to 5 hop, please scroll down to previous post.

good morning everyone.  today is Sketchy Thursdays on the OA Blog.  I created a sketch I hope will inspire layouts and cards alike.


sketch by danni

although i created a lo sketch, i decided to create cards and demonstrate how easily you can scale down a lo sketch to fit a card scale.  successfully interpreting a layout sketch into a card usually lies in the scaling of the sketch. scaling it down to a card scale generally means omitting or layering elements.  for this sketch, the focal is the argyle background element, so i decided to make that the focal of all my cards and play with the various layering interpretations of it.

hello card
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i rotated my argyle element on this card and layered the elements in the center instead of above the argyle.  i stitched through the centers of the argyle elements as you generally find with argyle patterns.






on my second card, i decided to rotate the argyle elements vertically so as to create a taller card



best friends card

 i layered the argyle pattern once again instead of above it to scale for the card size

(see the chipboard corners?  do you ever have some of those leftover or don't like to use them on lo?  these are really fun on the argyle pattern)




 i stitched through the centers once again





and to show you how easily you could use circle elements, like the ones that come in the 9 to 5 line,
i created another secretary appreciation card for hubby to give to another of his secretaries.


what would i do without you? 




exchanging the argyle for circles, i stitched through the centers and then layered the elements in the corner

(love the 9 to 5) paper label too ;)

 and joining me in this challenge today is Becky.  to see her amazing layout and cuuuuute puppy, hop over to the OA BLOG to see it.

if you were inspired to give the sketch, argyle element or circle element backgrounds a shot, please link us up, we'd love to be inspired.

thank you for visiting me today.

hugs & love♥
danni