Homegrown Countryside card for sketch challenge

This is only my second time participating in The Paper Players challenge, and I love sketches. To add a little interest to a simple sketch (my favorite kind), I "notched" the two main layers with the oval punch used to punch out the Homegrown oval. The colors used are Baja Breeze and Bravo Burgundy.

I love the pickup truck from Countryside stamped in a single color. I added some Crumb Cake seam binding to the front of the card after running more than half of the front through the Big Shot in the Square Lattice Embossing Folder. The sketch is below. You have till Friday at midnight to enter a card!

Edited on June 25 to add: Thanks to The Paper Players for selecting my card as A Cut Above!



Simple cards you can make in minutes...

These are the five cards we made at my stamp-a-stack on Thursday. Everyone made two of each (it goes faster that way!). The top one uses the stamp set Homegrown. Below, A Flower for all Seasons (a set you may get FREE thru March 31 when you place a $50 order) and a sentiment from Trendy Trees with Sunny Garden dsp.

The birthday card features Bring on the Cake, from the Occasions Mini Catalog, with pompom trim, piercing and the Scallop Border Punch. I CASE'd it from the mini! Below, Just Believe with pearls in Garden Green and Perfect Plum. The dsp is from the Woodland Walk package.

These Whisper White cards use Early Espresso ink, the Scallop Trim Border Punch and a strip of Greenhouse Gala dsp. You can see the flip side below. The bunny is from The Nicest Things stamp set, along with the words above. The "Happy Easter" is from Teeny, Tiny Wishes.

Homegrown stamps for The Sweet Stop sketch challenge...

I created this Homegrown square card for The Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge (shown below). It's all Very Vanilla, Wild Wasabi, and Woodland Walk dsp, with some Early Espresso ink. I stamped the Homegrown saying twice, cutting out the Wild Wasabi version and popping it up with Stampin' Dimensionals. The little garlics were stamped in Early Espresso, cut out and popped up too.

You can see that I didn't opt for buttons, the scalloped edge or the three brads shown on the sketch. I like to use sketches to create cards I probably wouldn't otherwise stamp... and often feel that less is more.

Stamps: Homegrown;

Ink: Wild Wasabi, Early Espresso pads;

Paper: Very Vanilla, Wild Wasabi, Woodland Walk dsp;

Accessories: Framed Tulips embossing folder, 5/8" Very Vanilla satin ribbon