Happy June everyone! Today is Sketchy Thursday and I thought it would be fun this week to create a card sketch with Graduations and Father's Day just around the corner. I created a sketch and wanted to demonstrate how you can take just one sketch and "stretch it". Sketches are such a great way to get ideas flowing, but I never follow them down to the last detail. I really love to take the idea of the design and run with it and often times can create several, very different cards, from that one sketch.
Let's "Stretch the Sketch".
I am joined today by the oh so incredibly talented, Amy Heller, and she has not only created several cards from the sketch, she has demonstrated how you can take ONE line of papers and embellies, Rocket Age, and created 3 VERY different cards. Get ready to be inspired, I know I was.
Here is the sketch I created to get us and YOU started: 
Using Rocket Age, Amy created this "Out of this World" card. On this card, she demonstrated how easy it is to use Rocket Age for masculine cards and just WOW your recipient. (With 3 boys in my home, this would be a FAVE for sure)
Using Rocket Age again, she demonstrated a totally different twist on the sketch in her "Happy good ol' 4th" card. She added buttons to emphasize the sentiment, strips of journal stickers and a button to add focal to the left side and strips of ribbon to give a firework feel to the block of pp, loooove.
Rocket Age for a baby card, seriously?? There isn't anything she can't do. Check out her amazing "Precious Baby" card. That IS Rocket Age. Amazing right?? Love that she has used block of pp, the cutest banners and THAT sweetest bear charm.
And here are some cards I created, inspired by this one sketch. I love summer, really, really love it because all my babes are home and we love to do things together, so I was inspired to think of all the things we will soon be doing together when creating these cards.
In "my happy" card, I used chipboard pieces and papers from 5 & Dime and also Seaside. (I love to ride bicycles with my kids, we ride almost every day at least 4 miles, it's so much fun to get outdoors and explore on them).
How about wagons?? Do your kids pull each other around in wagons?? Mine sure do. They even drive their wagon down our slope of a driveway and get mom's heart beating a little faster. I loved this wagon from 5 & Dime the minute I held it in my hands and knew it would soon find it's way onto a card.
We love to go to the lake and play all day during the summer. We build sand/rock castles, we kayak, we swim and yes, just enjoy the water, sun and air. In my "Beach" card, I used the little fish and duck from Schoolhouse, chipboard from 5 & Dime and papers and embellies from Seaside.
We love to go to the lake and play all day during the summer. We build sand/rock castles, we kayak, we swim and yes, just enjoy the water, sun and air. In my "Beach" card, I used the little fish and duck from Schoolhouse, chipboard from 5 & Dime and papers and embellies from Seaside.
Still using the sketch, I created this "Summer" card showing the girls from Seaside with their beach ball, another love of ours while out at the lake. It was so much fun to think of all the activities soon to be shared with the kids.
And lastly, I created a "Baby" card using Ducks in a Row, one of my top 20 lines of OA (because I really can't choose). I needed a baby card this week for a dear friend and decided to use the sketch to create one for her.
And lastly, I created a "Baby" card using Ducks in a Row, one of my top 20 lines of OA (because I really can't choose). I needed a baby card this week for a dear friend and decided to use the sketch to create one for her.
I hope you all enjoy this sketch as much as we have! As always, don't forget to share how far you "Stretch the Sketch" with us at our Flickr Gallery.