Sweet Stampin' ~ Sketch Challenge

Hey there my lovely blogging pals. It's time for a new challenge at Sweet Stampin' and as things get so busy towards Christmas and year end, we're making this a two week challenge. It's also a 'Sketch' challenge. I look forward to seeing how you would interpret it. I don't work with sketches much, okay, at all! So I took it quite literally. Not much interpretation at all, what you see, is what you get!! LOL. But I loved working with it and think I really ought to do it more!

This is the sketch that my card is based on and the one which will be our challenge sketch this week at Sweet Stampin'. You're free to interpret it as you wish, you can flip it, tip it on it's side, change shapes, but we must be able to see all the elements of the sketch in your creation. It was so fun to create from this sketch, so I hope you'll give it a go!

I've made this card for my gorgeous nephew, who is no longer the sweet golden haired boy that I coloured up here, but a strapping young man! I love this sweet Sugar Nellie image though, and thought it would be fun to take a lil' trip down memory lane on a day which celebrates and recognises how grown he now is. He's been traveling recently and doing some incredibly cool entrepreneurial business training, so I thought it would be fun to use the globe from Maja Design's gorgeous 'Denim' paper pad. The world really is his oyster now at 18. We are incredibly proud of the wonderful young man he's become. He's an inspiration to his younger cousins.

Here's a closer peek at the little elements that echo the sketch design. I struggled a bit with some of this, I couldn't figure out what to do for the button aspect, then I remembered the shirt I was wearing yesterday had gorgeous mother of pearl buttons on it and it was getting very threadbare in places! So I chopped up this favourite old shirt and used the buttons! Avid recycler me! LOL.

The '18' was cut with Marianne Design Number Dies and then edged with Ingvild Bolme Chalk Edger in Dry Sand. I distressed all the paper layers with my scissors. I used a hessian circle as the mat beneath my globe rather than the scalloped circle in the sketch and I really love how that looks. The enamel accents, were on my craft desk from a previous make, so it was quick and easy to work those into the design and I like the deeper blue with the softer blues in the gorgeous Maja Design papers. I think it adds a bit of richness and depth.

Do head on over to the challenge blog to see what my teamies made of this sketch and I hope you'll find the time to come and join in with us. I'm super excited to see what others create with this fab sketch. I'll be back again tomorrow with my next Whimsy Stamps Release Week creation. So pop back in to check that out. See you then! Hugs, Wends xoxo

Challenge Entries:
4 Crafty Chicks: #379 ~ Anything Goes
Lemon Shortbread: #55 ~ Anything Goes
Crafty By Designs: December ~ Anything Goes
Colour Crazy Challenge: #47 ~ Anything Goes
Creatalicious Challenges: #128 ~ Anything Goes
Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends: #71 ~ Anything Goes

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes
Crafty Creations Challenges: #355 ~ Anything Goes
Crafting With Friends Challenge: #56 ~ Anything Goes
The Paper Shelter: #320 ~ Add Three Types of Embellishment (Enamel Shapes, Buttons, Hessian)