This is my first foray into the sketch arena (channelling “My Cousin Vinnie” here). The challenge this week from the Pals Paper Arts is:

I am pretty intimidated by sketch challenges and this was no different. But I let it percolate and percolate and a card that I made earlier in the week was almost there. And then I knew what I wanted to do. 🙂

I don’t like too many layers or fuss, so three bands of something bothered me until I realised that it could be ribbon. Or even twine. I started looking at the new in-colours ribbon but finally decided that twine was the way that I wanted to go. Which restricted my choices a lot (perhaps not a bad thing!). My favourite colours from last year’s in colours are strawberry slush and baked brown sugar. I’m still a bit off pink after my pink cat card so went brown which is a very unusual direction. I checked all of the colours to see what would work and pear pizzazz made the pick. This card is a first in that it has TWO layers of dimensionals.

Card: Baked Brown Sugar, Pear Pizzazz

Stamp Set: Stampin’ Up! Bravo

Other: Baked Brown Sugar baker’s twine, versamark, embossing buddy, gold embossing powder

It’s a Clean and Simple card. Emboss the sentiment in gold and mat it in baked brown sugar. Put the three lengths of twine over the mat and use stampin’ dimensionals to raise the mat off the card base to hide the fact that the twine makes it uneven. I also put dimensionals under the sentiment matting due to the twine. I finally used my crumb cake envelopes since they seemed to match better than the very vanilla.