I’ve had a few people ask me for card sketches so I drew one up yesterday and later in the evening I made a card from it.

A simple sketch but you can jazz it up with extra layers and textures.

And here’s the card that I made from the sketch.

I think my favourite part of this card is the idea that I had first and that’s the little squirrels that have been made into a brad.  So stinkin’ cute! (as my American friends say).  The squirrels are part of a stamp that’s a little larger, they’re actually sitting on a park bench, so I stamped them then punched them out and popped them into the Build-a-Brad to make a cute coordinating accessory for my card.  The Build-a-brad is super easy, you just add a little adhesive on the back of your image that you’ve punched (or patterned paper or whatever you want to put there), then you just place the self-adhesive clear bubble over it and there you have your coordinating brad.

The main image of the tree was inked up with Always Artichoke and then I traced over some of the branches with a Chocolate Chip marker (directly onto the rubber), then stamped it on the Vanilla cardstock.  Tucked just behind the main image is part of a Scalllop Circle that I cut out on the Big Shot then embossed with the Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder – just a bit of a different way of using that Scallop Circle rather than having it as the base of a card or the focal point.

Well I like this card quite a bit so I’m off to make another 9 of them so that I can mail them off to some of my Stampin’ Up! team members this week.

If you have any questions on this card or would like to purchase any Stampin’ Up! products please feel free to email me.

Rubber Stamps:
Pendant Park

Inkpads/Markers:
Always Artichoke
Not Quite Navy
Chocolate Chip Marker

Cardstock & Paper:
Kraft (soon to be renamed “Crumb Cake”)
Not Quite Navy
Naturals Ivory (for the Scallop Circle)
Very Vanilla
Chocolate Chip
Bella Bleu Designer Series Paper

Accessories:
Antique Brass Build-a-Brad

Tools:
1/2″ Circle Punch
Word Window Punch
Big Shot die-cutting machine
Scallop Circle Die (used with Big Shot)
Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder (used with Big Shot)

Adhesives:
SNAIL Adhesive
Stampin’ Dimensionals