Day Six~Anything But A Card & A Sketch For You To Try…

Posted by Jen | challenges, projects | Saturday, January 26, 2008

Seen It?…
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You may have seen this project already. In December, I was honored to be Gina K’s Guest Designer. This is one of the projects that I made. It is a gift card holder; one like I have never seen before. I got the directions/tutorial HERE.
Here is a shot of it opened up. On the back side of the center portion, I did not put anything so that I could write a message to the recipient.
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It’s Saturday…YAY!! You know what that means!!…another SKETCH FOR YOU TO TRY. Be sample uses the owl {Hero Arts} that I got at the stamp fair last weekend and I paired it with a sentiment {Stampendous} that I picked up from eclectic Paperie. The DP is from Basic Grey. I picked it up in October or November and it has been sitting in the stash…and sitting and sitting. Finally it got some love!! The Really Rust panel behind the owl is stamped in Really Rust {I LOVE color on color stamping!!} with a negative image stamp of leaves falling from a tree {Sugar Loaf}. That stamp is actually one of the very first stamps that I purchased when I discovered my love for stamping. We all know that it’s been downhill from there!! ;)
I’ll quit my blabbering and tell ya that Carole, Shannan and Susan also have some great samples for your viewing pleasure. Just click on their names to go to their blogs.
I’m looking forward to seeing what you come up with!! When uploading to SCS, please use the keyword SFYTT. Next Saturday, I will introduce the new Guest Designer. Just in case you missed when I first posted about it, the Guest Designer will now be doing samples for the SFYTT each Saturday for a month instead of having a personal page. This will cut down on a lot of time that I have been spending on my site, yet still show off an AWESOME stamper.
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  1. Comment by Susan Liles (susiestampalot) — January 26, 2008 @ 8:32 am

    I LOVE it!! your stitching is great, too! i just did a “bird” card with that paper, too!! GMTA!!! hoot hoot!!!

  2. Comment by Michelle — January 26, 2008 @ 9:51 am

    I just love all your projects - it’s so nice to see something other than cards - thinking outside the box.

    Thanks for sharing!

    Your daughter is adorable!

  3. Comment by Alexandra Hobson — January 26, 2008 @ 1:36 pm

    I love your projects and I am always excited when I see a new one! This one is darling and a must try! And, I am going to do the sketch too - your card is awesome! *STAMPIN HUGS* Alex

  4. Comment by JanTink — January 26, 2008 @ 3:24 pm

    Great sketch, as usual! Here’s mine:

    http://stampspaperscissors.typepad.com/stamps_paper_scissors/2008/01/i-cant-decide.html

  5. Comment by Dawn Easton — January 26, 2008 @ 3:51 pm

    Hey Jen! GREAT sketch! I love that gift card holder, must give that a go soon! Yours is great!

    I’ve loaded my card to my blog but am off to load on SCS now too ;)
    Have a fab weekend!

  6. Comment by Kylie — January 26, 2008 @ 4:35 pm

    Thanks for the sketch Jen.

    Here is my card - http://kraftykylie.blogspot.com/2008/01/jens-sketch-for-you-to-try-26th-jan-08.html

    K.

  7. Comment by Julie — January 26, 2008 @ 4:56 pm

    Love this sketch! Here’s mine:

    http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/790342?limit=last1

  8. Comment by jennie skaggs — January 26, 2008 @ 5:37 pm

    Hi…

    What a great card sketch and love your owl card. Jennie

  9. Comment by Corinne — January 26, 2008 @ 8:22 pm

    I LOVE how you did your gift card golder….gorgeous !! Great sketch too…I’ll have to play with that one this week :)
    Thanks for the link to my tutorial…you’re way too sweet :)

    Have a good one.
    Corinne

  10. Comment by Susan Hall — January 26, 2008 @ 10:15 pm

    Great sketch. Here is my card. http://www.susanscornor.blogspot.com

  11. Comment by Marti/Pezadoodle — January 27, 2008 @ 3:42 am

    i LOVE that gift card holder - i am definitely keeping that tutorial handy! wish i had it a week ago! and i am going to try your sketch as i have just gotten a stamp set i wanted to use and that sketch will be perfect i think! thanks!

  12. Comment by StampMom — January 27, 2008 @ 9:03 am

    Nice sketch Jen — I combined it with the color challenge on SCS here:
    http://stampmom.blogspot.com/2008/01/few-more-challenges-under-my-belt.html

  13. Comment by Bobbi Gumino — January 27, 2008 @ 9:52 am

    Love, love Love the little gift card book. Thanks for the challenge!
    Here’s my card: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/790937?cat=500&ppuser=131856

  14. Comment by Tam — January 27, 2008 @ 10:14 am

    Great sketch! LOVE the cards!!!

  15. Comment by Charmaine — January 27, 2008 @ 11:42 am

    GORGEOUS gift card holder! WOW!

  16. Comment by Lisa Banks — January 27, 2008 @ 1:53 pm

    Sweet….Love everything about this!!!

  17. Comment by lauren (mytime) — January 27, 2008 @ 5:09 pm

    LOVE that owl :D
    Way cute.

  18. Comment by Lesa Smaligo (okcapitolgirl) — January 27, 2008 @ 6:20 pm

    Jen - Here’s my attempt at your sketch! Thanks again for inviting me to play!

    http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/791456?cat=500&ppuser=152746

  19. Comment by Jessie/Knightrone — January 27, 2008 @ 8:36 pm

    Here is mine!!! Thanks for another wonderful sketch!!

    http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/791597?cat=500&ppuser=61504

  20. Comment by Theresa — January 27, 2008 @ 10:57 pm

    I just discovered your blog and love it! The gift card holder is terrific. You do beautiful work.

  21. Comment by Kate — January 28, 2008 @ 10:05 am

    Thanks for the sketch. I love the gift card holder it is very cute.

  22. Comment by Vicky Gould — January 28, 2008 @ 3:04 pm

    What a cool sketch - I love your cards, Jen!

    Here’s mine:

    http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/792495?cat=7036

    Love that gift card holder too!

  23. Comment by Christi — January 28, 2008 @ 4:06 pm

    This was a challenging sketch for me (think it was the DP I chose to use), though you made it look so easy — I LOVE your card!…and your gift card holder is beautiful too!

    Here’s mine:
    http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/792573?cat=500&ppuser=24933

  24. Comment by Allison — January 28, 2008 @ 5:20 pm

    Thanks for a great sketch Jen (I think I left your page displayed for about six hours yesterday as I planned to do it but kept getting sidetracked!).

    http://stampinwhenican.blogspot.com/2008/01/basic-greya-little-perhaps-perhaps.html

  25. Comment by Julie Masse — January 29, 2008 @ 8:29 am

    Great sketch Jen!!! I loved making this card! :)
    http://stampinwithjulie.blogspot.com/2008/01/good-morning-what-fun-night-last-night.html

  26. Comment by Rose Ann — January 29, 2008 @ 12:00 pm

    Your gift card holder is awesome, and I love your card too!!

  27. Comment by Maren — January 29, 2008 @ 12:42 pm

    Such a cute card! I love this sketch too! I decided to use the Be Mine set I won! So so fun! THANKS AGAIN!!!
    http://zanynotcrazy.blogspot.com/2008/01/be-mine_29.html
    or
    http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/793648?cat=500&ppuser=138483

  28. Comment by Jennifer Buck — January 29, 2008 @ 2:28 pm

    What a really cute card! Thanks so much for another great sketch! I’ve uploaded mine here… http://thebuckstampshere.blogspot.com/2008/01/jens-sketch.html …Thanks again! :)

  29. Comment by Dawn K. — January 29, 2008 @ 6:16 pm

    here is mine, very simple.

    http://www.stampinyankee.blogspot.com/

  30. Comment by Carolina — January 30, 2008 @ 12:00 pm

    You make such amazing cards and projects Jen, thanks so much for sharing your talent.

    Here’s my first attempt at one of you sketches:
    My blog - http://creativepad.typepad.com/creative_pad/
    or
    SCS - http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/794918?cat=500&ppuser=50802

    Thanks again!

  31. Comment by Joanne B — January 31, 2008 @ 7:54 am

    Jen, thanks for another fun sketch! I loved working on this last night.

    Now I’ve got to wrack my brain to figure out what to do for the Verve sketch challenge, you know I can’t pass up a sketch challenge!!

    Here’s my sfytt!

    http://stampedbyhand.blogspot.com/2008/01/hippy-fun.html

  32. Comment by Regina Davis — January 31, 2008 @ 1:14 pm

    Jen, your sketches are addicting. Thanks so much for providing such wonderful inspiration. Care to see my card? http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/796350?cat=7236

  33. Comment by Julie Brooks — January 31, 2008 @ 1:34 pm

    Finally joined in and tried a sketch!! Thanks for the inspiration!!!
    http://juliejeandesigns.typepad.com/juliejean_designs/2008/01/amazing-grace.html

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