One of my stops was Gina K's new store front in Greendale, Wisconsin. It is called Village Paper and Ink. It is well worth the stop if you are a stamper, card maker, or paper crafting. Gina K was working in the store also along with a couple other friendly faces I recognized. My card today used a stamp I bought at the store. I have a thing for trees and leaves.
I based my card on the weekly sketch at Freshly Made Sketches.
I struggle with making clean and simple cards. I think I struggle with the white space so I used a scrapbook paper here for my stamping surface. The surface has lots of depth to it so I don't know if that stops it from being clean and simple.
The stamping at the bottom represents the strip on the bottom of the sketch. I did move my sentiment to the other side. I needed to balance the tree. I just colored the inside of each leaf with a copic marker and added some grass under the tree to ground it.
I am also placing it in the challenge at CASology where the challenge is masculine. I guess the colors make it masculine in my mind.
Thanks for stopping by. I need to go to the post office to mail bulky cards. I am also cleaning but hope to get back to creating a little also today. Have a wonderful day.
