TGIF, everyone, and happy Valentine’s Day! Do you have special plans for the evening? We enjoyed a nice meal and exchanged a few things to mark the day. We don’t ordinarily celebrate the day in the traditional sense but don’t let the day go by without marking it in some way.
But let’s go down to the real business – Sketchy Fridays! For those of you who are new here, Sketchy Fridays is a weekly series where we’re using a card sketch to design our featured card. Right now, we’re working through a full series of designs using the card sketches found in current Stampin’ Up! catalogs.
This week’s card is based on Sketch #22 from the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog. Today, we’re pairing up several embossing folders and a recent retired set called Softly Said to create this lovely Valentine design.
We get started with a base of Pretty Pink cardstock. Our Real Red background panel is machine embossed with the Dotted Circles embossing folder and then wrapped with the Real Red & White baker’s twine before being adhered to the background panel with dimensionals. I ran a sheet of Flirty Flamingo through the Plaster Painting embossing folder and a sheet of Melon Mambo through the Painted Texture embossing folder before cutting a heart from each using the Friends for Life dies. The hearts are adhered on varying levels of dimensionals to our embossed background panel. The sentiment from Softly Said is stamped in Cherry Cobbler on vellum and then diecut with the Nested Essentials dies. I adhered the sentiment panel over the hearts with glue dots and then added iridescent discs and heart sequins to finish things off with some shimmery sparkle.
Adding several different textures to a card design gives lots of visual interest and helps your elements stand out against a busier background. We’ll finish off our texture & sentiment design series tomorrow with a fun fold. I hope you’ll join me!
Products used in today’s card:
Pretty in Pink, Real Red, Melon Mambo, Flirty Flamingo cardstock
Vellum
Dotted Circles, Plaster Painting, Painted Texture embossing folders
Simply Said stamps
Nested Essentials, Friends for Life dies
Real Red & White baker’s twine
Iridescent discs, heart sequins
Dimensionals
Adhesives
Song Sparrow Papercrafts 