Bugging Out With Sketches

Beccy's Place, Clean and Simple, Everyday, flowers, Get Well, Inky Stamper, Insects/Bugs, Lawn Fawn, masculine, Ocassions, Seasons, Spring, Summer, Thinking of You/Miss You

Hello friends!  I hope you’re having a good week so far and staying safe wherever you are in the world.  Sending hugs to all experiencing a troubled time.  I hope that my post can bring a smile to you today.

I needed to create some get well type of cards and so I thought I’d try to incorporate some challenges while working on them which helps me to concentrate more in what I’m doing and maybe think outside the box a bit.

My first card is made with the Beccy’s Place Challenge freebie this month and she also challenged us with a sketch which I’ve decided to use for my card. (see sketch below)  I was really happy to use up some more pattern papers with it and I also decided to add a tiny dragonfly at the top to enter another challenge and to adhere to my “bug” theme today!

I printed the image in black and white and colored with Copics.  The dragonfly and the center pink strip were stamps that I cut out and added to the design.  The rest is pattern paper from my stash except the scalloped kraft border in the center that I cut out with a die.  I stamped the sentiment and cut it out to go with my twine around it. *You will notice in ALL of these cards that I’ve used some sparkly gems.  I wasn’t aware until posting them!  I must be on a kick of wanting to use them!*

Challenges for 1st card:

  1. Beccy’s Place – August challenge + sketch
  2. Paper Dragonfly Creative – Anything Flies (Goes) or Party
  3. Kreativ-Tanten – Anything Goes
  4. The Crafty Addicts – Anything Goes
  5. Crafty Calendar – Anything Goes
  6. Dragonfly Dreams – Dragonflies

And for this next card, I’ve played with a large bug:

Around my area this time of year, you can hear the sound of these cicada bugs with their distinct noise throughout the trees.  My husband likes the sound when a bird catches one! EEW!  This bug is a cute one from Inky Stamper called Cicada and I’ve colored it up with pencils this time.  Hard to see, but I’ve also added some shimmer with a glitter pen on his wings.

I’ve used the Picket Fence Tree Bark stencil over kraft on the background and then splattered it with brown and white paint. The leaves under the bug and the accent came from the Lisa Horton Variegated Leaf EF+die that I cut over light green cardstock.  I used some metallic green wax to go over the details in them.  I also used some gel pens to make some doodles around the strip, the circle and under the sentiment along with following a sketch. (details below) You will also notice more sparkly gems!  I’m also entering this in the Inky Stamper FB challenge this month which is using an IS bug image.

Challenges for card

  1. Sketch Saturday – #732 sketch + twist: add a doodle
  2. Creative Knockouts – #501 Anything Goes
  3. We Love Stamping – Masculine
  4. Lil’ Patch of Crafty Friends – Anything Goes
  5. Pammie’s Inky Pinkies – Anything Goes
  6. A Place to Start – Anything Goes optional: leaves/trees
  7. The Corrosive – Anything Goes

For my last card I decided to keep this one simple’ish’:

So, I know these aren’t real bugs because I’m not squealing, but these guys are too cute! They’re popping up out of the dirt for a special greeting!  I mixed in both a new and older stamp set from Lawn Fawn on this one. I’ve used another sketch for this one and decided to keep it very simple.  The hardest part of this was the coloring which honestly wasn’t all that difficult either because they’re small images.  I’ve also added some shimmer with a glitter pen on the wings and of course, there’s those sparkly gems again!

Challenges for card

  1. Sunday Stamps – SSC316 in the corner sketch
  2. The Paper Players – CAS using any Bug
  3. Simon Says Stamp Wednesday – Clean and Simple
  4. Krafty Chicks – CAS (Clean and Simple)

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I appreciate your time and thoughts!  I’ll be seeing you again on Saturday with another AJ page!

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35 thoughts on “Bugging Out With Sketches”

  1. Beautiful image and pretty papers on your 1st card.
    Love the cicada on your 2nd card.
    And the 3rd one is just so cute.
    Love your coloring on all of them.
    xxx Margreet

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  2. Stunning cards Vicki! Beautiful coloring and colors on the first, cicada is darling and I can see the shimmer on the wings, the third one is so adorable, wish this set was still available.

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  3. Bugs, bugs everywhere and I love them all! Your coloring with Copics on that first card is wow! Love the sketch too. The cicada – oh my goodness! Too cute and once again, great coloring – and with the pencils. I’m with you on that sound of the birds catching them. EEp! The last card – precious and a perfect get well or just feel better card. ALL three are so fun, cute, and pretty too!

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  5. Three fabulous cards, love so much them all! The masculine one is just perfect for our August challenge at We Love Stamping. Just love that cute cicada bug and the way you added some doodles and highlights to your beautiful design!!
    Thanks so much for joining us at We Love Stamping!

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  6. Well, girl…you have really been busy! All three of these cards would make anyone jump for joy at their mailbox! Beautifully done, each one! Sorry I’m behind again – for some reason, I’m unable to comment on two blogs from my Ipad, and yours is one of them! I rarely get to my craft room, where my desk top is these days. Hoping that changes soon! We see the Urologist on Friday – if hubby is cleared from his 2 surgeries this month, we can tackle his cancer next! New hip is doing great – he’s up to walking a couple of miles each day!!! Take care – miss you!!!

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  8. All fabulous cards Vicki,love the layout and papers on 1st card and the cicada-we used to hear these in Turkey when we went but never saw one! Love all the cute bugs on the 3rd card
    Carol x
    THank you for joining us at The Crafty Addicts
    Dragonfly Dreams
    Carol DT x

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  9. Your cards are fantastic, Vicki, well done! The colouring of the images is wonderful, and I love your choice of patterned papers and cardstock. You’ve also done a great job interpreting each of the sketches too. I agree with you about challenges helping to keep you focused and also giving you new ideas for your crafting, they’re always fun!
    Cheers,
    Beccy

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  10. What a great trio of pretty cards! I love your coloring and use of designer papers on the first card, it’s just perfect with that little dragonfly accent. I would never have known how to use the bug image on your 2nd card, but that one turned out so cute with the stenciled background and great design! As for all those cute little bugs in the 3rd card in total agreement, who wouldn’t feel better instantly if they received that fun little get well card?! Everything is so cute and fun, great job on all of them!

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  11. Oh gosh, Vicki – LOVE your bug card for us! Such cuties, and what great little sentiments for them! Very fun design – a great take on our sketch! Thanks so much for playing at Sunday Stamps!

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  12. Some fun images and sketches, Vicki. I really like your colors and coloring. That last one is my favorite and is extra fun, but I love the tiny hugs tag on the first. Looks like you have been very busy. Hugz

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  13. Vicki, It looks like a bug party. Those little bugs sure are cute and their sayings make your card so fun. Your sweet card is sure to make the recipient smile. So glad you joined us at The Paper Players this week.

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  15. Superb colouring on the first card right down to the touches of rust on the watering can. The Cicada which looks so like our Grasshopper s but totally different I believe makes for a perfect masculine card, many thanks for sharing at We Love Stamping.

    B x

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  18. A wonderful collection of cards. Thank you for joining in the Crafty Calendar Challenge this month with your first card.
    Liz xx

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  21. What a great collection of cards – and not a scary bug amongst them! Thanks for sharing with us over at The Paper Players this week!

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  22. All of your cards are so beautiful, Vicki! Those little buggers with their get well wishes just made me smile! Thanks so much for joining us this week over at The paper Players!

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  24. Those critters are so stinking cute!! I love their convo bubbles…adorable!! Thanks for playing along with our “In the Corner” sketch challenge over at Sunday Stamps!! Deb Horst, DT. #SSC316

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  25. Oh, how beautiful, I love the colours and cute flower pot with the flowers [ I’m too late to join in now I think, not enough days in the week for me]..and your adorable cicada on his leaf, fabulous colouring and lastly your bugs all in a row, they will make anyone smile and feel better..

    Luv CHRISSYxx

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  27. Adorable cards! The Lawn Fawn images are so cute!! I love how you used the sketch for your card. (The cicada image is so funny too!) Thanks for joining Sunday Stamps this week.

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  30. A really pretty card Vicki. Love the sweet image and your colouring is perfect. Gorgeous papers too. Thanks for sharing over at Dragonfly Dreams challenge. Hugs, Denise, GDT x x

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  32. Great set of cards. First, I must say, the coloring of the metal and terra cotta pots are spot on. And I would have never guessed your cicada was pencil! All of these are so fun to look at – all the little touches.

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  33. All of these cards are so interesting. Love the colors on each one! I don’t think I can pick a favorite…All of them are great takes on the sketches. The second one grabs my attention—In the upstate of SC we are “going through” a Cicada plague. They use to only make their sounds at night and it wasn’t deafening, but this year it’s also during the day and if you’re outside you can’t think. Now your “guy” is quite cute and I love how you’ve mainly used the green on the wood background. I’m not sure what Cicada’s do for the ECO system, but I wouldn’t be sad to hear less of them! Your coloring is awesome on all of it! Smiles, Kathy

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  34. Stunning cards all! The coloring on the watering pail image is out of this world! If you didn’t win with this card in the challenge, you should have.

    Hugs
    Sue

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  35. Three fantastic cards. Each one is funny, colorful and will surely please the recipients. I love all the layers on your cards.

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