Freshly Made Sketches: Marigold Birthday

It's time for a new sketch at Freshly Made Sketches! Today we have a sketch by Jacquie and here’s what I did with it!

 

I haven't bought a lot of stamps lately - I've bought a lot of dies, but not stamps. I think I've gravitated towards dies because of the amazing dimension you can get just by layering a few of them up.  But when I saw this stamp set, the dimension created by the two layers just called my name! On the other hand, I got a little frustrated because I had a really tough time getting that bottom layer to completely stamp.  I kept getting white spots even with the stamp-a-ma-jig and the tool you can use to apply pressure and even with the new stamp erasers I got to condition new stamps.  Ugh. It all reminded me why I like dies so much. But I eventually got a good image and I am loving the results.

This is going to a gardener so I wanted to be fairly realistic.  I don't know flowers - but apparently marigolds run from yellow to orange to red so I pulled out my favorite yellow and orange.  The leaves were a bit tougher. Most of the images I looked at had quite dark green leaves so I went darker but these aren't green-tones I generally like. I'm hoping it's close to right for the gardening recipient but when I use again for fun, I'm brightening them up!

I love the fonts on the sentiments in the Marigold Moment set but there's only three - a mother's day and two for thank yous.  I didn't need those sentiments. I'd pay a lot for a full set of sentiments in those fonts so I had a full selection!  But I had to dig deep and came up with the look I wanted in a birthday sentiment in the old Petite Pairs set. 

I hope to see you playing along with us this week at Freshly Made Sketches.

SUPPLY LIST

Stamps: Stampin' Up Marigold Moments and Petite Pairs

Dies: Stampin' Up Marigold Moments and Scalloped Contours

Ink: Stampin' Up Mango Melody, Daffodil Delight, Garden Green, Evening Evergreen