A New Sketch Challenge!

Happy First Sunday of Advent!  Can you believe it is just over four weeks till Christmas Day?!?It is time for a new sketch challenge over at Sunday Stamps.  Check it out:

Here is the card I designed....

Christmas card featuring the Festival of Trees and Good Greetings stamp sets

As you can see, I flipped the sketch upside down!  I love playing with sketches to find alternate ways to incorporate them into my designs.  Here is how I put this one together:

• The background paper is from the All is Calm Specialty DSP pack...love the silver shimmer!
• The larger trees are die cut from Lost Lagoon card stock with the Perfect Pennants Bigz L die (retired).  I embossed them with the Decorative Dots TIEF and then sponged them lightly with Whisper White Craft ink.  Then I sponged around the edges with Lost Lagoon ink.
• The "snow" was cut free-hand from Dazzling Diamonds glimmer paper
• The tree images are from the Festival of Trees stamp set.  I heat embossed them in silver on Brushed Silver card stock and then punched them with the Tree punch.  To create a focal point I added rhinestones and a little silver glimmer star to the centre tree.
• The sentiment is from the Good Greetings (retired) hostess set and is stamped in Lost Lagoon ink.  I added a Basics Glimmer Brad (retired) and some silver metallic ribbon to highlight it.
• The entire card front is mounted on a Lost Lagoon card base.

This sketch is SO versatile!  Check out the projects by the rest of the Design Team and then give it a go.  We'd love to see your take on it!