I love a good sketch, and if you’ve followed along here for any length of time, you’ve heard and seen me refer to sketches I’ve used to make various cards. There are all sorts of places where you can find card sketches and you can even start your own sketch book based on card layouts you see and like. These are two things that I’ve been doing for years. But what I love is that Stampin’ Up! has begun to include a collection of sketches in catalogs.
There are quite a number of demonstrators who have turned the collection of sketches in the 2024-25 Annual Catalog into a large-scale file (letter-sized) that they’ve shared amongst their fellow demos and with their customers. I got mine from Frenchie Stamps and love the larger format because it helps me better visualize where I’m going with design and obviously because it’s much easier on the eyes. *wink wink*
Up until now, however, I have not seen any of the new sketches included in the Holiday Mini catalog in a larger format. So I’ve spent some time over the last week doing just that. About half of the sketches included in the catalog are for gift tags. But did you know they can easily be converted to card fronts? You will see each of those tags included as a card layout in this sketch collection file — to help you better visualize how each of the tags can become a card. But you’ll note that each of the tag sketches is otherwise completely unchanged outside of the outline of a card front.
You can download the full collection of 20 sketches included on page 16 of the 2024 Stampin’ Up! Holiday Mini catalog by clicking on the link below.
Song Sparrow Papercrafts 