Freshly Made Sketches 173

There's an awesome new sketch up at Freshly Made Sketches!  This week our hostess is Kim and I'm pretty sure you are going to love this sketch!

Now, in case you are thinking that your eyes are deceiving you when you see this sketch, it does in fact appear to be tilted.  It's not (and you can take out your ruler to prove it), but is in fact a cool optical illusion which I presume is brought on by the layers that actually are tilted!

As you can see, I forgot to tilt one of my layers but my brain and my body are tired from the ridiculous amount of snow that we've gotten here in the last two weeks.  My new part-time job is shoveling snow and I've got to tell you that the pay stinks.  All I get for my troubles are sore muscles and a sincere longing for summer.  I ought to be used to the snow, after all this is New England and we do get our share of snow.  But it would be better if it was spread out over the entire winter instead of just the last couple of weeks!

But enough of my weather troubles, lets talk about crafty stuff.  The colors for my card come from the latest challenge at The Paper Players.  The colors were such that I wanted to use them layered together using this Altenew stamp set, but truthfully it took me a long time to put this together.  The images that go together are not necessarily next to each other on the acetate sheet and I really think they should be.  Most of them are but there are a few that don't seem obvious in how they layer together.  Once I crack the code I'm going to label them in some way so that it's easier to use them.   But don't get me wrong, they are beautiful stamps and the end result is worth the work!

Our fabulous Freshly Made Sketches design team have really rocked the sketch this week so I hope you check them out and join us in the gallery.  We love it when you do!

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps:  Painted Flowers (Altenew); Another Thank You (SU)

Paper:  Basic Black, Real Red, Whisper White (SU)

Ink:  Calypso Coral, Real Red (SU); Onyx Black (Versafine)

Accessories:  Stitched Rounded Rectangle STAX (My Favorite Things); Honeycomb stencil (Heidi Swapp); black embossing paste (Dreamweaver)