Unscripted Sketches Challenge # 73

Hello everyone!  Thanks for visiting this very special day!  It's my first week as a member of the Unscripted Sketches Design Team!!!  I am unbelievably excited and grateful to be given this opportunity, and hope I do the other DT members proud.  As usual there is a sketch challenge, but this week there is also a 'piggyback' challenge to use only one color!  Black and white are neutrals, so the card needs to be black and white plus one color, and I chose pink.  Here is the sketch for this week . . .

And here is my card based on the sketch . . .

Product Info:

• Pink patterned paper is Bo Bunny, Alissa line 'Alissa Kissable'
• Black and white polka-dotted paper is Websters Pages, Life's Portrait 'Reflections'
• Small pearls and gems are from Prima e. Line
• Large gem, fabric and lace for flower,and stick pin are from my stash

Tips, Tools and Techniques:

• White tag was cut from a scrap of white card stock on my Cricut Expression, Tags, Bags, Boxes & More cartridge using scltop-h set at 2 1/4".  The sentiment was stamped using an Inkadinkadoo Brenda Walton stamp with black ink, and heat embossed using Ranger black embossing powder.
• The flower was made using a circle of felt as the base, and an approximately 1 1/2" strip of torn fabric.  Using FabriTac glue, you start at the center and twist and turn the fabric, gluing along the way.  When you are finished you tuck the end underneath the felt and glue it.  Then I gathered a bit of lace with needle and thread and glued it to the bottom of the felt.
• For the stickpin, I used a green quilters pin and inked it with black ink and heat set it with a heat gun.  Then I inked it again with black ink and dipped it into black embossing powder and embossed it with my heat gun.  Once it had cooled, I added a clear heart bead and a jet black bead, which I glued to the pin shaft.  I used this to pin the sentiment tag to the flower.

I really hope you find inspiration from my take on this week's sketch.  It was a lot of fun to make, made even more so because of it being my first card as a member of the Unscripted Sketches Design Team. 

Blessings!  Becky


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A Dream Come True!

Did you see it???  That new logo over there to the left?   The one that has a header of  "I Design For . . . "?  Yeah, that one!  It's official!  For a couple of years now I have had the goal of becoming a design team member for a card making challenge blog or some other card making 'enterprise'.  Any number of applications later, and I have finally been chosen to be a member of the design team for . . .

Unscripted Sketches

Unscripted Sketches is a sketch challenge blog that issues a new sketch each Saturday that many people will turn into a greeting card based on their own individual take on the sketch.  My responsibilities will be to make a card based on each sketch and any 'bonus' challenges, and visit the blogs of card makers who enter their cards in the challenge and leave them encouraging comments about their cards.  

This is not a paid job, but it is my dream job!  I'll now be doing what I love doing, all while being a member of a team of lovely ladies who share my passion for creating our own little pieces of art, and encouraging other folks in their own artistic efforts.   Doesn't that sound like a dream to you?

In upcoming weeks I'll be getting to know the other team members, and learning all the ropes of the Unscripted Sketches organization.  I hope to have my first card for the challenge on September 18th, so be sure and check back often!  Life is so funny, and God is so good!  I felt so good when I was preparing my application for this team, and every other time I have been so nervous and felt I wouldn't make that team.

I feel so blessed to be given this opportunity, and look forward to carrying out my duties with joy and a new level of creativity.  Thanks for visiting today!  Be back soon, Becky