Express Yourself - Freshly Made Sketches #397
21 July 2019
Hi Everyone. Happy Sunday night.
I have a card for you tonight - and the winner of the-mystery-white-blob photo blog candy!
Firstly, let's start with the sketch. The thing about the ladies at FMS is they have fabulous sketches and some of them really do challenge - and that's why I like doing them :-) This sketch had me scratching my head (with my one good hand!!), but I was determined to do something with it.
I really did spend quite a while going through my stash trying to work out this sketch. I even made 3 thrown away attempts and then.. bingo! I brought out an old FunStampersJourney set that I just can't seem to get rid of.
For the vertical element on the bottom left - I used the quote stamp from the set:
Such a great sentiment! For the vertical upper right, I used two of the paint brushes from the set. I stamped them both onto the card base and then stamped one of them again onto a piece of scrap card stock. I very carefully fussy cut it... it was tough I can tell you... but I persevered..... and I adhered it over the top of one of the brushes and through the palette, which I had also fussy cut. I popped the palette up at the top with a foam dot.
So, I had both vertical elements and one of the three elements. I needed another two. I stamped a paint tube and colored that and then popped it below the palette. The third element was the sentiment itself. I had fun with my glittery markers that my Bestie, Pam, sent me for my birthday. I added paint to the palette and then "wet" the center of the paint with the glitter pen.
I remembered to add some to the tips of the paint brushes, too Wish my hand had been working better - it was tough fussy cutting all this out - especially the hole in the palette!
Anyway, here's my full card:
I used my kuretake real brush markers for the coloring and love the striated effect they created on the palette. For the paint tube, I added some squiggles to somewhat resemble a logo and then covered over the label with more glitter pen!
I had such fun playing with this sketch and am so pleased that I didn't give up. I was really happy with the way it turned out in the end.
On a personal note.
OK... the weather went from 110 on Friday to 61 on Saturday and I was wearing a jersey!!!! It was a great time to visit the paint store (now that's a whole other story!!!) and also spend time in my crafting room.
I also managed to get a somewhat decent shot of our mystery visitor - the white blob. He was on the crab apple tree that we have just planted, munching away at the just-ripened berries and refused to turn around. Even when I went onto the deck to photograph him, he didn't turn around, he just continued to munch.
So, our mystery white visitor obviously climbs trees, so definitely not a deer, a cougar, could have been a pheasant, was too big to be a fairy, a frog, an owl or a bunny.... although they were all great guesses :-) No-one guessed right. BUT... guessing correctly wasn't a prerequisite for winning blog candy :-)
I put the numbers of those who guessed into a random generator - starting with Jeanne at #1 who was the first to make a guess.... the generator came up with:
So, that makes this our winner
Terri, please send me your physical address and I will send you your little parcel!
Thanks to all of you who played along. I will be holding another blog candy next month, to celebrate Lou's birthday :-) So, I will have to come up with something else for you to guess at.
Oh, I guess you'd like to see the visitor? The white blob is actually:
Yep, a white squirrel. We haven't managed to check whether he is an albino or leucistic. Whichever he is, he's welcome in our neck of the woods. Lou and I were visiting a community in North Carolina and there were a couple of white squirrels there. It was considered to be a very lucky day if you saw one of the white squirrels, so we are going with the theme that it's lucky to have him/her here!
I'll be back tomorrow with another card. Yep... another one :-) In the meantime, warm hugs and prayers for those of you who need a little lift tonight. And continued thanks to all of you who are sending me healing thoughts, prayers and messages
Hugs
Jaydee
Love your card, Jaydee! What a creative take on the sketch. Just awesome!
Posted by: Colleen Begley | 21 July 2019 at 08:42 PM
Such a clever take on the sketch and what a beautiful card! Thanks so much for joining us at Freshly Made Sketches.
Posted by: Karren Johnson | 22 July 2019 at 02:22 AM
What a fun way to use the sketch!! I love the way you mixed the sentiment into the vertical stripe and one of the circles - ditto with the images - SO creative!! Thank you for playing along with us at Freshly Made Sketches.
Posted by: Kim S | 22 July 2019 at 06:25 AM
What a great card! I predict a winner for sure!
Posted by: LeAnne | 22 July 2019 at 08:41 AM
Love your card. You have a lot of patience to get things to where you are totally satisfied. Never heard of a white squirrel
Kathy
Bethlehem, PA
Posted by: kathy | 22 July 2019 at 05:12 PM
Fabulous!
Posted by: Linda Callahan | 22 July 2019 at 06:01 PM
Really a clever way to use the sketch! Love it! Thanks for joining us at Freshly Made Sketches!
Posted by: Judy Rozema | 23 July 2019 at 10:13 AM
I love this card soooo much! So creative! Congrats on your win at FMS! XX
Posted by: Claire Broadwater | 23 July 2019 at 03:06 PM
This card is just fab Jaydee - a worthy FMS winner this week! Mystery solved too - I've never seen a white squirrel before, hoping now for luck today!
Posted by: Joanne James | 27 July 2019 at 03:21 AM