I’ve been meaning to enter one of these sketch challenges for a while now but haven’t been able to get around to making something before the challenge deadline was up. I love the idea of having a loose template for a card and then being able to use whatever materials or designs I want to make it my own. It’s also a great way to try out other layout ideas that I never would have come up with myself. So… I finally did make a card during the week of a challenge and am going to submit it. Here’s the challenge sketch and site:
http://casethissketch.blogspot.com/2013/08/case-this-sketch-39.html
I liked how clean and simple it was (which, I found out, is what “CAS” stands for). It seemed perfect for a sympathy card and I actually had to make one for my church’s Music Director, whose brother died last weekend. Here’s my card:
I found the photo of the great, old tree in National Geographic and though it had a similar line to the flower in the photo. I also love the perspective and the person climbing up it… almost like someone climbing into Heaven. I added a banner with some card stock that has a kind of pearlized color (it doesn’t show up well in the photo) and the faux stitching boarder with a silver Sharpie. It’s about as “clean and simple” as I get. I hope she likes it.
really great interpretation of the pattern 🙂
Thank you! It was really neat working from a pattern like that.
Your card along with the symbolism and feeling of it are great! Sympathy cards can be hard I find…
oxo
Thanks.
This is a perfect sympathy card. Well done!
Thanks!
What a wonderful idea and such a great card!
Thanks so much for sharing with us at CAS(E) this Sketch this week!
Thank you! It was really nice to have a kind of a template to work from. And it helped me keep it simple (not always my strong suit).
beautiful card…clean and simple is lovely…it has a calming effect on the eye
Thanks. I loved that photo the second I saw it.