Sketchy Friday

Even the best laid plans go wrong sometimes - or just have little glitches along the way.  Usually we're pretty organised on the Daring Cardmakers team and know what is coming up for us.  This week though it didn't go so smoothly so we had to have a little re-shuffle, which left us with a gap in the timetable and only a couple of days  to go before the new challenge went live.

So we're using the October sketch "2Circles2Go" from the Sketch File Blog for our cards this week and we hope you'll like what we've made - keep checking back to the DCM BLOG though as the short notice is sure to mean there'll be late additions!

 I couldn't resist using the Silky Crush ribbon flower I made the other day as one of the circle elements for my card, with the sentiments tag as the second.  I've used satin ribbon for the crossing lines, and beaded some pins to make the 3 little "bars" on the left side of the sketch. 

The aperture echoes the rounded rectangle background for the sketch:

Here's a closer look at the flower embellishment. 

 The Silky Crush ribbon is quite wide - about 5cms, so I cut a length of the ribbon about half as much as I needed then cut along lengthwise leaving about 1.5cms at the end uncut, this worked really well as any raw edges are easily hidden as you twist the ribbon around the circle of gluey card.  I've added a lace rosette at the back and a big pearly brad in the centre.

Materials:

MME "Dwell" 6x6 papers, Bazzill aqua card

Silky Twist ribbon, gathered lace, satin ribbon, Card Candy, Pearl-headed pins, Pearl Bead butterfly and spiral all from Creative Treasures

Beads, Pearl brad, Decal sentiment

Tools:

Spellbinders Nesties Labels 12 dies and Large Scalloped Circles die

Craft Robo for small circle

That's all for now - I'd better get back to making samples for the brand new, soon to be released "12 Crafters Crafting" CD from Funky Hand - if this doesn't kick-start my Cword card making, I don't know what will.  I might end up buying cards to send this year!

Please visit the Daring Cardmakers Blog to see what the team have made using the sketch - and to see who won our fabulous prize from The Ribbon Reel  of course!

Thanks for looking,