October Afternoon Weekly/2 Peas Sat Card Sketch Challenge

I chose to combine two challenges into one this week.....I've been wanting to play with my new Sasparilla papers from October Afternoon and when I saw Kimber's Card Sketch Challenge this week I immediately envisioned circles with stars in them. This affect worked well for the negative/positive challenge at October Afternoon too...so it just made sense to combine them both.

So here is the sketch I based my card on:

And then October Afternoon challenged us to use both the positive and the negative space from a die-cut shape...this is what I came up with:

To create the little circle/star embellies...I punched my star out of the center of my circle and then using dimensional adhesive I attached it to a second circle of pattern paper (making a mini shadow box, basically). Then I added a mini staple for added design and texture.

October Afternoon Supplies Used: Patterned Paper - Sasparilla (Wide Open Spaces, Giddy up, Stage Coach) ; Holiday Style (Toyland); Campfire (Sleeping Bag); Campfire Word Stickers 

Other Supplies Used: Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher; Tim Holtz Distresss Ink - Vintage Photo; Sentiment - Stampin' Up - FYI; Star Punch - EK Success; Spellbinders Nestabilities - Classic Circles; Photo Corner - Misc.

Thanks for looking!

October Afternoon Sketch Challenge

This week's sketch from October Afternoon:

This is my take on the sketch:

October Afternoon Supplies: Farmhouse Collection - Word stickers, label stickers, shape stickers, Found Alpha, & Patterned papers (Kitchen Cupboard, Gravel Road, Church Social, Sunday Dinner, Attic Trunk); 5&Dime Collection - Sprinkler - Lemon Drop; Sasparilla Collection - Buttons; Rocket Age Collection - Patterned paper (Space Station); Mini Market Alphas - Gray & Cream

Other Supplies Used: Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Pumice Stone; Mister Huey's - Clay; Unity Stamp Co - Worn Grid; American Craft Slick Writer; Divine Twine - Oyster; Spellbinder's Nestabilities - Classic Circles; Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher

I stamped the background using my gray mister instead of ink...then I dropped yellow splotches on top of the grid pattern....I then built the rest of the page. My photo had this large white area from the way the sunlight was coming in the room so I ended up cropping it a lot more than I wanted to. But I am happy with how the layout turned out. Phew...it's been a while since I've scrapbooked...been on such a card craze lately....Thanks for looking!