August Sketch Challenge - Megan's Papercraft Treasures

 Good morning, lovelies!  Today, I am excited to share my Design Team card for the August Sketch Challenge at Megan's Papercraft Treasures.

Megan's provided two sketches: a scrapbook layout and a card layout.  I'm not much of a scrapbooker, so I was excited to play with the card sketch!  

I started with a 5 1/2" x 11" card base of 110# white card stock and scored at 5 1/2".  I cut an additional panel of Pool Party to 5 1/2" x 5 1/2" and adhered it to my card. 

Because I don't have any good stitched dies (and let's be real... I am too lazy to bring out the sewing machine), I wrapped linen thread around the center of a 5 1/4" x 5 1/4" panel of patterned paper and adhered it to my card base.  

I die-cut two hearts from Roccocco Rose and Pool Party card stock and set about to arranging my elements.  Once I had attached the hearts to the card front, I added the chipboard bird house using wet glue and added the little bird to the front.  I tied a loopy bow from the linen thread and also glued it down, and added the flower clusters.  

For my sentiment, I die-cut a strip of Roccocco Rose and embossed the sentiment in Antique Rose Gold.  I popped the sentiment up using a double layer of foam tape so that it would fit over the bird house stake.  

I really loved working with this sketch!  It forced me to think outside the box a bit, and I had a lot of fun!  This is not a color combination that I would have thought to use, but against the patterned paper, I think it turned out quite lovely! 

I hope you will join us and play along with the sketch challenge.  You can find the sketches in our Facebook group.

Products Used:

• Recollections 110# Card Stock:  White
• Stampin' Up Card Stock:  Pool Party, Roccoco Rose (Retired)
• Stamperia 12x12 Scrapbook Paper:  House of Rose
• Stamperia Die-Cuts:  House of Rose
• The Greetery Shapely Hearts Dies
• Kindred Stamps:  Sentiment Strip Dies
• Altenew Sentiment Strips Stamps
• Altenew Embossing Powder:  Antique Rose Gold
• Stampin' Up Linen Thread
• Flowers (purchased on Amazon)
• Beauty Art Liquid Glue
• Foam Tape

As always, thank you for stopping by!  Make sure to head over to the group and check out the other Design Team projects!