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Fun With a Challenge Sketch!

Aloha, all!

     It's Saturday and the Holiday Edition of Create With Connie and Mary is almost over.  Can you believe that?!  A six-week program seems to have gone by in less than a month!  (Note that this doesn't mean you can't still subscribe and get ALL of the projects from this great program that focuses on everything in the 2011 Stampin' Up! Holiday Mini Catalog.  You can!!!)

     But I digress (as I often do).  This week for the Holiday Edition, a week which focused on the Frostwood Lodge Product Suite, our challenge was a horizontal sketch.  Now usually when someone presents a sketch challenge, one can take liberties with the sketch, including rotating a horizontal sketch to become a vertical sketch.  But this one was quite specific.  And once I started being "obedient" about the position of the card, I did so with the rest of the elements of the card.  So my card is pretty true to the sketch.  So here's the sketch…

…and here's my card!

     One thing that's a lot different from the cards that I usually show you here is that this card is 7" wide x 5" high.  Those trees from the Christmas Lodge Stamp Set just seem to overwhelm a standard 5-1/2" x 4-1/4" card.  With this card their size seems more reasonable.

     I'm not sure how many of you have ever been where there are a lot of Birch trees growing.  But I've had the opportunity to be around Birch quite a bit up in the north woods of Minnesota.  And this paper from the Frostwood Lodge Designer Series Paper set reminds me so much of Birch bark that's peeled off the trunk.  We frequently find pieces of the bark and use them to write notes or signs to hang in various places up at the cabin.  Lots of fun.  To make this paper seems even more like the bark, I wrinkled it up and rolled the edges a bit. 

     The only product on this card that's not in the Holiday Mini Catalog is the "25" stamp, which is from the set Tags 'til Christmas Stamp Set in the 2011-2012 Stampin' Up! Idea Book and Catalog.  But I stamped it on one of the papers from the Frostwood Lodge DSP set, so that brings it right back into the Create With Connie and Mary Holiday Edition realm.

     If you have the Christmas Lodge stamp set you might notice that the trunk of both trees doesn't show up at all.  For the tree on the right, it's obvious that I stamped the tree low on the card so the trunk was "stamped off."  For the other tree though, before I stamped it, I placed a piece of plain paper across the area where the ribbon was going to be and then stamped the tree.  I removed the piece of paper on which the trunk was stamped and I had that nice clean space to put my ribbon.

     I hope you've enjoyed these Create With Connie and Mary challenge projects.  These Saturday challenges are the only time we're permitted to show off something that we make for the subscription.  Every other day of the week during the program, there's a great project complete with a downloadable tutorial from one of us designers.  As I've said before, I'm having a blast with these and can hardly wait until I have some time to go make the projects that some of the other designers have posted on the blog.  And I don't have to hurry up to do it because the subscription projects stay alive and well for ONE YEAR!  I'm still referring to the Summer Edition projects and have a lot of time with them, too.  So if you've not yet subscribed, do think about it – and enjoy all these projects especially for the next 2 and a half months that the Holiday Mini catalog is effective!

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