The Shabby Tea Room - week #201 - "Fun with Sketches"

Hello Friends,
Here today with a couple of cards for The Shabby Tea Room - week #201: Fun with Sketches.  Here is the sketch for this week:

I made 2 cards with this sketch so far.  One is for a birthday and the other is a "thinking of you" card.  Both use sentiments from Paper Sweeties wonderful sentiment stamp sets. 

Thanks for visiting my blog!  I hope you will visit The Shabby Tea Room to see all of the wonderful inspiration from the "Shabby Girls"!  And if you have time join in all the fun with this lovely sketch!
Hugs,
Jill

Thinking of you....

Hello,
I made a card for this week's Make it Monday #93 - Splitting Die Cuts.  I had this idea, as soon as I saw the video, of creating a frame with the straight die cut piece from the new Shape Up Series -sweater die collection. 

Well I must say I had somewhat a comedy of errors while making this card.  I was able to create the frame pieces from the die cut quite easily having cut lots of trim pieces for my house when I first purchased it back in the early 1990's.  However - when I went to glue the frame pieces onto my card I didn't have it centered correctly and had to move it around which left some glue marks on my card.  After some creative trimming and layering, as well as some strategic glitter glue placement, I hope that you cannot tell?  (Why do I have such hard time just throwing the card away and starting over?  It is just paper after all???)  It is the whole "waste not, want not" from my childhood and the recycle/reuse thing also.

Alas....my card:

The coloring was done with colored pencils and as always I will preface by saying coloring is not my strong suit - AT ALL!!  The jute bow tied through the card was due to a hole that I created by accident....I told you - comedy of errors while making this one!!! I just added a second hole and tied the jute through the card and made the long bow.

Thanks for taking a look at my card!  I just love this Winter Hills stamp set!
:) Jill