Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Welcome to Skipping Stones Designs First Sketch of 2011.....

Happy New Year!!!!! I always get so excited for the New Year. It brings a feeling of hope and change to me...I don't know why.......

Lots of excitement around Skipping Stones Design this week. We have a new sketch artist and FOUR guest designers this month!

Our sketch artist is Amy Sheffer of Pickled Paper Designs! Wait to see what she has in store for you this month!! WOWZA!!! Also, the Stamp Tramps also have some awesome help this month as well....Jen del Muro, Becky Olsen, Tami Mayberry, and Rae Barthel.

Here is our first sketch of 2011....


Isn't is great? I love this sketch.

Here is my card....

The set that I used this week was the fabulous Always Here! This such a beautiful set with a bunch of great sentiments!!

Here are the other supplies that I used:

Card Stock: Perfect Plum, Bashful Blue, Very Vanilla ( Stampin' Up)
Border Punch: Fiskars
Dies: Labels 9 (Spellbinders)
Ink: Perfect Plum, Bashful Blue, Going Gray (Stampin' Up); Stazon (Tsukeudo)
Extras: Shimmer Sheets (Elizabeth Crafts); Glassy Accents (Ranger), Ribbon (Stampin' Up); Rhinestones (craft supply)

Thank you so much for stopping by today and taking a look at our new sketch and my card. Please take the time to stop by the other Stamp Tramps blog and see what they did with all the inspiration!!!









Aaaannnnddd...
starting tomorrow January 5th, Cardabilites is having a weekly, Wednesday sketch, in addition to the 15th and the 30th sketch reveals. January is Cardabilities One Year Anniversary!!! We are having a giant blog hop on January 15th, with chances to win blog candy at every blog!! (yeah!!! prizes!!!))

See you soon!!! God Bless!!!





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8 comments:

~amy~ said...

gorgeous work Wendy! Love what you've done with the sketch!

Exciting stuff over at Cardabilities!

Lynell Harlow / Dreamweaver Stencils said...

That is a very involved sketch and I think you have made it look Mauvelous Dahling!

Gladys said...

beautiful card! love the butterfly!

Jingle said...

Beautiful card, Wendy!

Ann Kranitz said...

Stunning!!

Brenda Weaver said...

It's lovely, Wendy! Great colors. Love the butterflies!

Anonymous said...

Love, love, love the butterflies in the background! The little dragonfly is so perfect on the sentiment panel, fabulous!

Barb Turpin said...

Wonderful job Wendy! Love the soft colors and shading on the sentiment panel.