Life is a Song.....Sing it!!!

Today I had to make a card for our Page at work. She is leaving us at the library for a full-time job this summer, and then off to university in the fall. We are giving her a little gift and throwing her a little partay!! So the department asked me to make her a card!

Well Wednesday just happens to be Sketch Challenge day on Splitcoastampers!! So I had the layout all planned for me.....I LOVE sketches!!! Half the work is already done for you, who doesn't like that???

So this time I actually started with the stamp, because I knew I wanted to use this Inky Antics sentiment stamp as the focal point of the card. I stamped it in Black Onyx Versafine ink on Whisper White cardstock. I decided to use some of the Almost Amethyst designer paper in my Palette of Prints pad and thought that the stamps from Simply Said would go well with the design on the paper. I cut the patterned paper as instructed in the Sketch Challenge and then cut a whisper white piece the same and decorated the two pieces I would need. I stamped the solid flowers in Almost Amethyst and overstamped them with the outline stamps in black. I just love the way black cardstock or black ink really makes a card 'POP'.....know what I mean??

So I used Basic Black for the card base, positioned my pp on top and actually left a little negative space between the papers. The sketch shows the puzzle pieces of the papers right up to each other, but I liked the look of the black peeking through. Then I did several punches with my Mega Scalloped Square punch to form the frame around the focal point. I also used my AA SU marker to shade around the words. I added some little layered purple flowers with silver brads and placed them in the corner. Then ............. of course......I pop dotted the main image!!! I tried to refrain.....but I just HAD to make it 3-d!!!

I just love the poem on this stamp:

Life is a song
Sing it
Life is a challenge
Meet it
Life is a dream
Realize it
Life is love
Enjoy it
- Sai Baba

SOOOOOOOOOOO, since I love sketches SO much......and it seems that you do too.....I think I might have to have another sketch challenge soon!!! How soon?? Well how does tomorrow sound?????