Monday, January 16, 2012

Less is More 50 and Unscripted Sketches 141

I had a very productive card-making day yesterday - I just love when that happens.  And I've got the day off from work today so hopefully I'll be productive again.  This is the first of the cards that I've been making.

The challenge this week at Less is More is to make a one layer card with the subject of birds.  I remembered that I had this cute stamp from Happy Together so armed with the very CAS sketch at Unscripted Sketches I put this together.

I'm not sure why but for some reason this is the second time that I've participated in a Less is More challenge recently and felt the need to hand draw a square to fit around my stamped image.  I don't know - I just took one look at the sketch and that's where my thoughts went.  For this one I punched out two squares from cardstock and then used them as templates to draw them on the cardstock.  I stamped the bird in timber brown Stazon so that I could color it in with a Daffodil Delight marker.  Apparently I didn't wait long enough for the ink to dry, because it ran a smidge on the wing.  The square and the sentiment were done in Early Espresso.



Thanks for stopping by today!

11 comments:

Chrissie said...

This looks great Jen and I love the hand drawn frame!
Super job!
Thanks so much
Chrissie
"Less is More"
If you could possibly remove the word verification from your blog it would make commenting much easier for us!
Thanks.

dstandard said...

OOOOH this is perfect! Love it! Thanks for playing at Unscripted Sketches this week!

Billie A said...

Sweet card love the way you did the sketch. I love it. Thanks for playing with us at Unscripted Sketches. Hope you join us again.

Margaret said...

Lovely card Jen
Margaret x

Mandi said...

Terrific card, love the placement
Perfect!

Many thanks
mandi
"Less is More"

Geri said...

Absolutely perfect! Love, love, love it! Thanks for your participation. Hope you play along again soon with Unscritped Sketches.

Erna Logtenberg said...

oh this is sooo cute!!!

Vicky Hayes said...

What a clever way to draw a frame Jen! The finished card is gorgeously elegant.

Aileen said...

Cute card and your frame is perfect. x

Linda Callahan said...

Simple perfection!

Pauline said...

Wonderful card, a great sketch too.