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The Deconstructed Sketch No. 39

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Hey everyone! It’s Thursday and I hope you are doing well. I have to say this week is wiping me out. It’s been full of many days of drawing demonstrations at school and running and more running at night. There’s something about this time of year, the lull between the holidays and spring beginning that wears me out a bit, I think. I need some bright sunny 70 degrees and morning sunshine to pep me back up. What about you?

Lets get on to our sketch! We are up to DS39 and I hope you like this one! Please excuse the hearts, I know Valentine’s day is over so please feel free to make those into what ever shape you would like. :)

Deconstructed Sketch 39

I am running a bit late on my sample. I had my image all ready to put on my card and then spilled water on it when I was cooking dinner… I know, I know, I shouldn’t multi-task, lol. Or maybe I should work ahead… but it’s just not in my personality to do so… I need the pressure of a dead-line. Just ask my husband, he’s always getting on me about waiting until the last minute but the creativity just doesn’t flow until it wants too. :) I’m hoping I’ll have on to put up by tomorrow night or Saturday morning. :)

BUT my fantastic and super super talented guest designer, Amy Sheffer, has an amazing sample for you and I’m just gonna let that one shine today!

Doesn’t she just do the most amazing work? Seriously, stunning I’d say!

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Now it’s time to hop around and see what everyone else on the DT has been up to and leave them a little love.



Deconstructed Sketch No. 38

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Thank you so much to everyone who participated in our sponsored challenge, Sketch 37. Your projects were all wonderful! I am always so inspired be everyone’s creations each week. It’s so fun to go hop around and see what you’ve been up to!

Our randomly selected winner from Skech 37 is…

Mari Harpham

Congratulations Mari! Please email me at jenevey @ gmail dot com and I’ll get with you about your prize!

Are you ready for the sketch?? Well here it is!

Deconstructed Sketch 38

Here’s my sample:

My card originally started out down a clean and simple path and morphed into something else completely as I worked. I do really like the outcome though. I used Moka Katie for my image today and colored her with Copics. I actually have a little video of how I colored her that I’ll share a little further down. It started out as a tutorial and I was a little long winded to I sped it up and but music over it but you can follow along and see the process. :) Okay, back to my card. I started out with Moka Katie and paper from MME Love Me, my current favorite paper pad that I can’t stop using. Seriously, it’s very versatile, and I love the soft pinks in it. Here are the rest of the details on the card:

Image: Moka Katie, Taylored Expressions
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Vintage Photo
Paper: MME Love Me, Kraft, Choice Snow White cs
Accessories: Spellbinders Circles, doily, hand died sheer ribbon, dew drops, Prima roses, twine, glue dots, foam tape, 3M Quick Dry Adhesive, Glossy Accents, distress tool, Lots of Dots impression plate (Taylored Expressions), Sharpie pen, Copics.

And here’s the video I promised of how I colored Katie. :)

Here’s our fantastic guest designer, Amy Sheffer’s, sample:

So there’s a little something to get you started and now it’s time to hop around and see what everyone else on the DT has been up to and leave them a little love. :)



The Deconstructed Sketch No. 37

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Howdy all! I hope you are having a fantastic week! This week’s sketch is brought to you by the amazing Krista Smith of the Saturated Canary and she is very graciously offering two digis from her shop as the prize to one lucky participant! Make sure you hop around and see what the design team has done with her gorgeous digis because I have to say this might just be my favorite week so far! Now, how about that sketch?

This Week’s Sketch:

And here’s a little something to get the thoughts going on how to use it:

For my card I used Zorana a dancing gypsy for my card and I LOVE how adorable she is and she was tons of fun to color. I should also add that I used an embarrassing amount of markers to color that dress so I’m not even gonna share them but it was easily around 40, lol. I used MME’s Love Me paper for this (my current FAVE) and PTI white and kraft cardstock for the rest. To dress is up a bit I added Vintage Photo distress ink and a bit of doodling and distressing here and there. The sentiment and dies around the sentiment are from Verve and the border die is from Taylored Expressions.

Now, I have another AMAZING announcement that I know you are going to be so excited about cause I know I am! We have the AMAZINGLY TALENTED and insanely creative Amy Sheffer joining us for the next three months!

So there’s a little something to get you started and now it’s time to hop around and see what everyone else on the DT has been up to and leave them a little love. :)



Deconstructed Sketch No. 36

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Hey there! It’s time for another Deconstructed Sketch, I hope you’re ready. :) I really liked using this week’s sketch and I hope you will too! Here it is:

This Week’s Sketch:

My Sample:

For my sample I used one of Christy’s gorgeous Wryn images called Wryn New Nest. I have actually had her colored up for a while and I colored her without using designer paper as a reference so I spent a little bit of today digging for matching paper and ended up using one of my favorite paper pads… My Mind’s Eye Lost and Found 2 Rosy.

I got pretty lucky with this paper as it matched pretty perfectly. :) I added a sentiment from Verve, it’s one of the Thank You gifts you sometimes get with an order. I added a bit of jute twine, two Prima flowers and a bit of distressing using a distress tool and Tim Holtz Bitty Grunge stamps.

Design Team News:

I’m so sad to say that it’s time to say good bye to our two FANTASTIC guest designers this week. Andrea and Tracey have both reached the end of their term and I can’t even begin to say how happy I have been that they spent the last three months here playing with the sketches. It’s just been amazing and so inspiring to see what they come up with each week. Please, if you have a moment, stop by their blogs and say hi today! Here are their last AMAZING Deconstructed Sketch projects.

Andrea Ewen:

Tracey Pickersgill:

Aren’t they FANTASTIC! Now for MORE inspiration you can hop around and visit the rest of the design team using the links below!



Deconstructed Sketch No. 35

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Alright here we go! I hope you are doing well this week and are ready for another sketch! Thank you so much to everyone who participated in last week’s sketch. Your creations were just brilliant! This Week’s Sketch:

 

My Sample:

 

For my sample I used one of Arielle’s Wax Fruit Company digis, Dogwood and colored it with Prismacolor Colored pencils. I used a combination of pencils blended with odorless mineral spirits and a burnishing technique (heavily applied pencil). I took a little artistic liberty with the colors on the dogwood blooms. :)

 

 

The designer paper I used is from Country Drive by Echo Park and the embossing folder is Seeing Spots from Cuttlebug. The sentiment is Paper Smooches Sentiment Sampler.

Please be sure to hop around and visit the Deconstructed Sketch Girls samples. They have made some AMAZING creations and I know they will get your creativity going!

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