Playing for fun

Usually, most of my card making is for Design Team Assignments or cards that I need right away.  But every once in a while, a challenge really grabs my eye and I just HAVE to play along.  When I saw this sketch from Atlantic Hearts, I knew it would be perfect for using up some elements of my bits and pieces stash.

And here is the card I created:

The strips of patterned paper were pieced together from scraps and had been in my bits and pieces stash along with one lonely scrap from the same pack that I had missed when creating the strips.  That piece was just perfect for creating the bottom banner of the sketch.  The white strip that the sentiment is stamped on was also in the stash.  The base panel felt a little too plain to me, so I stamped it with a crackle background stamp and a light gray ink.  It is very subtle, but adds just enough interest to keep it from being boring.  I die cut a heart from vellum and topped it with a button that was rescued from an item of clothing that my kids have outgrown.

Supplies:
Stamps: MFT "Essential Sentiments"; JustRite Stampers crackle background
Dies: Sweet n' Sassy Stamps heart; MFT "Bold Stripes Cover Up" sentiment strip

Challenges:
Atlantic Hearts Sketch #331--sketch
Unicorn Challenge #46--fully loaded or CAS (I went with CAS)
Brown Sugar #292--anything goes
Pixie's Crafty Workshop #359--anything goes with snippets (everything on this card was made from scraps)
Sweet Stampin'--pretty in pink
Simon Says Stamp Monday--S is for? (strips and scraps and sentiment)
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday--anything goes
Krafty Chicks #470--Crazy Egg/just a sentiment