Thursday, July 8, 2010

SKETCH 51: BACKGROUND STAMPING


Good morning, and welcome to Limelight Papercrafts' 51st Sketch and Product Challenge! Today we are excited to focus on BACKGROUND STAMPING, and we hope you'll join in the fun with us! :) One lucky winner will receive a Stampendous single stamp of their choice, after all!!
I really love how my card turned out...I don't usually use orange and blue, but I like them together. :) I started with kraft cardstock for my card base and background stamping piece. I stamped a couple of the flowers from the Lawn Fawn set Petite Florals (Are you noticing how much I love this stamp set?!?) using PTI's Tea Dye ink in Chai. I die cut my three butterflies using SU dies (Beautiful Butterflies and Beautiful Wings) out of TaDa Hoop De Doo patterned paper. The two patterns represent both sides of this patterned paper. The middle butterfly is accented with Ice Blue Rhinestones. The Pumpkin Pie panel simply features the sentiment. I stamped this sentiment, from the Unity July store kit, using Dark Chocolate ink. I accented a few random letters by stamping them onto Aqua Mist cardstock, cutting them out, and adhering them over the Pumpkin Pie letters. What a great birthday sentiment. ;)


The Deets:
**Use the sketch above and try to incorporate some BACKGROUND STAMPING!!
**Keyword for SCS upload is LLPC051.
**Post a comment with a link to your card right here on the challenge post by Sunday, July 11, at midnight (or really just before winner is drawn Monday!).
**PRIZE ~ One lucky random winner will receive a Stampendous single stamp of their choice!!
From here, your next stop on the Blog Hop is JenMarie! I know you will LOVE what she has in store for you! (Psst! We had the same idea on the butterflies! Great minds think alike!!)

25 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wonderful card Mandy!

lisa a.

JenMarie said...

LOVE it!!

StampinCathy said...

This is so cute. Love the butterflies and how you did the sentiment.

Mandy said...

CUTE! gotta love those butterflies!

Rose said...

super cute card !!! oh my background stamping is always a huge challenge for me. love the sketch so will be back with my card :)

Maggie said...

Being a University of Illinois grad, I love orange and blue--great color combo :) Can't believe I got my card done so quick--here it is!
http://stampsinhallways.blogspot.com/2010/07/limelight-challenge-backgrounds.html

Erin (Homemade Cards by Erin) said...

Very cool, here's my take on the challenge, http://homemadecardsbyerin.blogspot.com/2010/07/celebrate-day-red-birthday-cakes-card.html

Emily Keaton said...

My son Joel made this card for the challenge. He's too young to have his own Blogger account, so I'm posting it for him. Here is his card:
Lemons

I hope to post a card of my own for this challenge tomorrow!!

Jennie said...

Eeks, this is so cute Mandy! Love those butterflies!!! Love this sketch and forgot it was sketch week. Looking forward to playing along.

Lisa H. said...

what a sweet card! love your background and LOVE how you did up the sentiment.

farmhouse-story said...

Sweet card, Mandy!

Janice said...

Love your card as I love butterflies! My card is at http://twin2u2-scrapaddict.blogspot.com/2010/07/hot-hot-hot.html

Julia Aston said...

What a great butterfly!

Cassie said...

Great challenge & gorgeous card, Mandy! Here's my take:

http://cassietrstamping.blogspot.com/2010/07/limelight-challenge.html

Cassie ;D

Emily Keaton said...

Super card and fun challenge! Thanks a bunch, Mandy. I love your sketches. Here's my card:

Lamb Congrats

Thanks for looking!

Tami Grandi said...

very pretty! Here's mine

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/1745308?&cat=500&ppuser=49592

still not sure about it though!

Rose said...

My card is HERE

Sheila D said...

Great card and a fun sketch. Here's my take on it: http://www.flickr.com/photos/50382289@N05/4781122071/sizes/z/in/photostream/

Jennie said...

Hi Mandy! I am back with my card for the challenge... Loved this sketch :o)
http://stampawaytheday.blogspot.com/2010/07/thank-you.html

Karen B. said...

Ooh, love your sentiment treatment Mandy and am now addicted to your sketches! Love them! Here's my take: http://thebalddragonfly.blogspot.com/2010/07/bird-watching-coffee.html

Banu said...

Loved the sketch and challenge this time. Here is my card,

http://stampingwithpassion.blogspot.com/2010/07/color-throwdown-100-using-limelight.html

Angela said...

This was an awesome challenge! Check out my card at http://scrapalappin.blogspot.com/2010/07/otwc-challenge-15-limelight-sketch-51.html

Sherry Eckblad said...

cute card and what a fun challenge. I never stamp my background so this was fun.

http://buttonjunkie.blogspot.com/2010/07/hi-chick-and-more.html

StampinCathy said...

Whooo Hooo! I was able to play this week.
Here's my card:
http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/1747053?&cat=500&ppuser=66979

Savannah O'Gwynn said...

LOOOOOOOOOOVE this card! So sad I wasn't able to play this week--I love love love LIMELIGHT:) Can't wait to play again!!!

Go check out Cosmo Cricket for their online store voting....I voted for LIMELIGHT (who else!!).