Tuesday Morning Sketches & Moxie Fab World

Just so you know, I highly doubt that ever again you will see three sketch posts in a row on my blog. I've got to say, though, that the more I play with sketches, the more comfortable I feel with them. Tuesday Morning Sketches #146 ends tonight, but look at the wonderful cards from the design team & you'll see how versatile the sketch is! When I went to look for the square elements for my card, I went with a brand-new pad from Memory Works' Simple Stories, the Summer Fresh collection. It comes with a bunch of sheets meant to be cut up into tags, which is really perfect for this sketch. And, with a gingham-patterned background paper, perfect for the current Moxie Fab World gingham challenge (which is open until Monday, June 4). Red gingham just says Summer Picnic to me.

Supplies: paper & tags from Memory Works "Summer Fresh;"
twine & sentiment from Paper Smooches;
vintage photo distress ink;
Flower from Prima; Making Memories brad;
Bow Easy for the multi-loop bow

The upper tag is adhered with a double layer of foam tape, and the flower/brad are glued on top of the twine bow, so this card has lots of dimension. I love this kraft twine from Paper Smooches - it's nice & thin, so it manipulates well, unlike the thicker jute twine I have, but it's still stiff enough to retain whatever you happen to do with it, unlike the crochet thread I have. See, there's a reason I need to have all those different things on hand ;)

Here's the sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches:

If you haven't checked it out yet, you should go have a look at the Let's Get Trendy Now workshop - I've been really inspired by it, and I've made lots of projects to share this week.

Now to make some time to play in this week's Tuesday Trigger (I woke up with a great idea! I love that!) and we're planning to go on our first picnic of the year tonight, so it's going to be a great day :)

xoxo,

Jessi