Believe it or not, but this really IS today's sketch, lol. It just got a little covered up. My circle had to be bigger and then I added the fussy cut dogwoods and poof! The horizontal and vertical bands mostly disappeared.
I'm really loving these dogwoods! Here I stamped them in lightning black and very quickly added just a hint of shading w/ two markers then cut them out. I know, I know...most people don't care for the fussy cutting, but I like it, lol. And I've gotten really quick with it. It took me about 7 or 8 min. to cut out the 3 bunches of dogwoods.
For the quote circle, I stamped the stained glass image w/ the lightning black then stamped the quote over it w/ black before die cutting it. The little left over crescent moon shape is what was left and I kinda liked it so I added some sponged on gold leafing and put it back.
The strips were stamped w/ the stained glass image and the gold ink and a solid strip added on top. The finished card is 5.50 x 4.25.
Thanks so much for looking! Closeups are on my blog: The Write Stuff
Date: Wednesday, March 7, 2012 GMT Views: 5459
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Thu, Mar 08, 2012 @ 2:26 PM
Wow! Julie this is stunning! I love the dogwoods and how you displayed them and the subtle colours. That sentiment is wonderful and I also like the stained glass behind the sentiment.
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"Surely His salvation is near those who fear Him, that His glory may dwell in our land." Psalm 85:9