I'm always fairly selfish when I'm creating the FMS sketch for the week. In this case, I had multiple big and fun sentiments in my not-yet-used stash and I thought a quirky background would work for any of them. Doing this sketch forced me into the background and the sentiment!
I pulled out some of the brightest and quirkiest Christmas paper that I had and made the stripes. Then I settled on the "jolly" sentiment from Photo Play. The biggest struggle I had was colors for the sentiment and mini strip on top of it. I can hardly tell you how many backgrounds and jolly's that I cut. (Sadly, I have to see something in real life to know whether it does or doesn't work.) I really wanted to pull the dark blue from the paper into some element of it, but it just didn't look Christmasy enough. So the paper and strips took about 5 minutes, then that battle of the colors took another hour. Thank goodness I like the process, because my process is ridiculously long!
I hope to see you play along with us this week at Freshly Made Sketches.
SUPPLY LIST
Stamps: Photo Play Jolly
Dies: Photo Play Jolly Word/Shadow, Sentiment Strips
Paper: Bella Blvd Holly Jolly Christmas
Other: Buttons Galore Caribbean Sea Doo Dadz
I like your mix of festive papers, this is cute!
ReplyDeleteAwesome sketch, Kim! Love the pretty patterned papers backing this fun sentiment!
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ReplyDeleteThis card is just fabulous Kim! I love the mix of patterns and colours of those strips! I also love that giant Jolly! So perfect for Christmas! Thanks for a fun sketch this week!
ReplyDeleteLoved the sktch and your card is absolutely delightful - I am a big fan of quirky! The bold sentiment is great with the background of papers!
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