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16 January 2022

Happy Sunday

I have a quick post for you tonight. I got to play with a brand new set called Sketchbook Roses from The Greetery. I bought this with a gift card Lou gave me for Christmas.

I was in my craft room creating cards for the seniors and needed a little inspiration, so I popped into Freshly Made Sketches to see what they had as a sketch this week. In fact, I made two cards with the sketch using the same set. One of them I had to turn on the horizontal to fit the roses.

As its 6.30 pm here, I had to photograph these cards in my craft room. I much prefer to photograph them in natural daylight - but it's too late for that:-) So, they look a little warmer than normal :-)

Here's the first one - the more simplified version and the one that is sticking to the sketch - on the vertical:

For the first card, I wanted the image to fade into the background more, but when all out on the second card and was, once again, inspired to do a loose water color technique. I'm getting to enjoy this! I also paired this with the Nordic Frames die cut from The Greetery. I popped the roses onto the base with glue only in the middle, as I wanted the edges to be free of the paper.

I added some gold and white splatters to the flower and the background and my card was complete.

Here's my second card: