One sketch 2 looks

I love the look of the long skinny cards and the sketch from WMS's sketch challenge this week for perfect for them. In fact, I liked the sketch so much that I ended up doing two cards.

Card 1 uses WMS stamps. The car and boy head is from Half Pint Heros, the cloud and little bird is from Half Pint Heroines and the sentiment was pieced together using Free Spirit Senitments. In the sketch it suggested/said to stamp the back ground and that had me pondering what to do at first. As I was looking through my WMS stamps I decided to make a cute little scene with the Half Pint sets (LOVE making scenes with these sets cause they are so easy to create). This sketch also lent itself so easily to a driving scene for me as the strip is the road so that gave way to a sky and ground. I stamped the bird and clouds on the background and the card and lil' dude on the image panel. One I layered it on I discovered lots of my clouds got lost. Not good for an outdoor scene, so I them made masks for the card n' dude as well as the clouds and bird. The masks also worked to protect the parts that needed to be white or colored from the blue sky I sponged on using Distress Inks. My road needed to be on the image panel as well so I masked off where that needed to go and sponged on Black Soot. I am really proud of how it all turned out once I popped up each panel.

Card 2 uses PTI stamps. I am in the middle of making back to school cards for my team at school and thought this sketch would work well for a CAS card for the project. The pattern paper I used is from my stash so I don't remember the name but the apple and sentiment is from PTI's set called Teacher's Apple. In fact, I am sure you will be seeing more of this set this week as I work on their cards.