Gillybean Crafting : Coast to Coast Creators Blog Hop

Fourteen of the month so you know what that means! It's team blog and Insta hop day! We are doing a sketch challenge and it's a good one!

I am behind the 8 ball as I am both making and sending holiday cards in a mad rush so this sketch challenge was definitely an easy way for me to make some last minute cards. (I loved my design so much, I made cut and prepped 3 more at the same time!)

In addition to the sketch for inspiration, some of the key elements were inspired by a card I had seen from Verena Shapiro (simple_stamper).

This card was pretty quick to come together. Layers of DSP, some fussy cutting, and some layers of circle die cuts. I also took the sentiment from the ephemera back and used my blending brushes and Memento ink to change the background from white to black. A game changer in my opinion in upping the sophistication of the final design.

The trees are fussy cut from one of the sheets of DSP in which they were in groups of 2 or 3 so I put 2 groups together. As always, I cut out a second shape from my foil piece to get the most out of my high price point papers. A patterned die cut for the Basic Black circle and some embossing on the Basic White layer help to bring it all together.