My Favorite Things Weekly Sketch Challenge
Inspiration Sketch 670
Good day, fellow crafters. I am delighted to share with you my submission for the MFT Weekly Sketch Challenge #670. I genuinely mean it when I say this every week: I love how these sketch ideas inspire me. Each entry I've submitted so far has taken me in new directions, revealing perspectives I hadn't previously considered for my card-making. I hope you enjoy my submission for this week as much as I enjoyed creating it.
Inspirational Sketch
For this challenge, I envisioned when looking upon the inspiration sketch a window or an arched doorway. This led me to think about how a door is also called a portal, which in turn led me to think of time travel and hence I arrived at dinosaurs. Kind of crazy logic but it did get me to where I ended up. I also needed to create a birthday card for a younger recipient so I thought why not also make it a shaker card while I was at it?
To craft this card I first began with a pristine white cardstock and to create a dreamy, cloud-filled sky for the background, reached for the MFT Clouds stencil (ST-099) and Gina K's Powder Blue ink. I carefully applied the ink along the edges of the stencil, blending and layering until I achieved the perfect fluffy cloud effect. But I wasn't done yet! To add even more depth and dimension to the sky, I added a touch of Ranger's Distress Oxide in Tumbled Glass. The combination of these two hues created just the right sky. I then set it aside to dry and then repeated the process for the foreground panel of the shaker card.
Moving on to the next step I reached for my MFT A-roar-able Friends stamp set (CS-483), featured right, to bring some adorable prehistoric creatures to life in the foreground. I stamped each one onto some more white cardstock and then to provide them with some life, I employed the use of my trusty Copics. Starting with a light base color, I worked to blend and shade each dinosaur. There is an associated die set for these stamps but I don’t like the white left around my images so I fussy cut around them and allowed them to dry.
The next step was to cut the window shape from my top panel. Since I always work with a size larger than the final product I cut my window from the center of sky I had created and then aligned my background panel where I thought it looked the best. Then both of the panels were trimmed to their final dimensions. I next lined the two panels up so I could see through the window and placed my dinosaurs into their final positions. I also took time to stamp my sentiment, also from the A-roar-able set, in black ink.
To create the shaker box, I first cut a piece of plastic slightly larger than the window opening and then adhered it to the back of the top panel covering the opening. I next used foam tape on the background panel to create a well in which to add my shaker fill. I then exposed all of the adhesive and carefully aligning the top panel, adhered it to the foam tape.
The last stage was the final assembly. I trimmed a black mat to size for extra visual appeal and then adhered my composite background panel to it with double-sided tape. I then adhered the whole thing to a pre-cut and folded A2 white card base. With that, I called the card complete.
