Freshly Made Sketches 397

I'm on vacation this week (yay!) and I've got a big to-do list that I'm working on.  I'm convinced that homeownership is nothing but a series of things that need to be fixed!  But I took a break from that list to make my card for our latest Freshly Made Sketches challenge.  Our hostess this week is Kim and she put three circles on the sketch that had me thinking of anything else but circles!

I actually first thought of using something like checkboxes in place of those circles, but the stamp sets that I have with check boxes were much too small.  So I had a look through some other sets and stumbled upon these keyboard images and knew that they would be perfect.  There were a couple of long sentiments in the same set that took the place of the vertical layers on the sketch.

Once I had the design down I kept thinking it was too plain so I decided to add the grid stamp behind the sentiment stamps.  I wanted the grid to be subtle and experimented with a couple of soft grays before I settled on this one.  Then I added a slim layer in a dark, mustard yellow around the whole thing.  The challenge this week at Just Us Girls is to let the sentiment be the focal point and I think this fits the bill.

Thanks for stopping by!  My Freshly Made Sketches teammates have made some beautiful cards with this sketch so be sure to check them out.  We hope you'll join us in the gallery!

Supplies
Stamps:  Off the Grid (Stampin' Up!); Tech Talk (CAS-ual Fridays Stamps)
Paper:  Solar White (Neenah); Honey Nut (Papertrey Ink)
Ink:  Going Gray (Stampin' Up!); Nocturne (Versafine Clair)