Tuesday, February 23, 2010

sketchy and circley* and a bit zen-ish

having now done several of heidi's "second chance" sketches at sketchy thursdays, i'm very excited to finally complete one of diana's "first chance"...aka regular thursday sketches! here's the sketch:

i made a card; i don't really "do" layouts, as such, though i loooooove seeing other people's...and the ST team's are particularly cool for this sketch!


(glossy white cardstock: ranger; matte white cardstock & ink jet transparency: staples; patterned circles created digitally using anna aspnes' floral art brushes (designer digitals) layered on top of roben-marie smith's bennet's hammock paper (digichick); spray inks: glimmer mist, smoosh spritz & diluted grumbacher watercolor paint; florals: heidi swapp, prima, making memories, michaels; sequins: queen&co; rub-ons: making memories; inks: colorbox; adhesives: tombow mono runner, vellum gluedots, 3m foam tape; other: dymo labels, sewing machine, chinese text paper)

you can see i've used the results of one of my spray ink experiments as a background; i love how it turned out, it's actually a mixture of spray inks and sprayed water color, with judicious dripping, blotting, and blending of both! i've used some transparencies i printed out from various digi-brush experiements, as well; one is layered over chinese text paper, the other combined with a heidi swapp ghost clock. as for the rest, i've layered loads of different silk & paper florals, some fun sequins & gems, and the cool "typewriter key" exclamation point from a pack of decorative paperclips leah & i snapped up in staples' clearance aisle. fun, fun, fun!

*is "circley" a word? hmmmm... possibly not, but go with me, ok?! (it's definitely better than "zen-ish" anyway!)

17 comments:

  1. Hmmm...circley and zen-ish are in my dictionary:) LOVELY card...you are rockin' those spray inks!

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  2. Fab job, Lauren!!! And it's about time Heidi didn't get all of your attention, LOL!!! Love seeing you work, and I love that splatter look! Goodness all around!!

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  3. Beyond stunning! I love the color, the elements, the layout, the whole thing! The background is awesome!!!!

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  4. `Beautiful` card Miss Lauren..love your spritzing:)
    Have a fab week darlings!!!Mwaah:)

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  5. Super cool, Lauren! I love all the painted goodness goin' on! Awesome!

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  6. Okay I'm in LOVE. This is awesome and surprisingly not pink, but still totally Laureniffic. I LOVE how youlayered this and the fact that its a glimmer misty background too cool. Dang my computer printer!!! I want to play doing this now too. I wish I could see it closer up. Put it in your flickr too if you can so I can see more of the detail. Pretty please. That one and if you can find that very cool Cinderella fairy tale themed pink card you did a long time ago for DT at caardvarks put it in your flickr too so I can see it close up. I'll have to look through your blog to see if I can find it.

    plz Plz :)

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  7. First, thanks for your super sweet comment on my quilling layout! Second, I absolutely adore this card...while I'm the one that doesn't 'do' cards! I love the way how you use the inks with water. It is gorgeous!!

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  8. Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous! I LOVE this Lauren, it has so much depth and the colors are luscious!

    (-: Heidi

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  9. oh this is lovely! The layering you did is amazing and I adore that butterfly you used.

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  10. Lauren this is so faboulous. Really like what you've done with your spray Inks, and that flower around the clock... yummy...Love the flowers , the sentiment... well the whole card.... Hugs

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  11. cooler than cool!! You do some amazing work with that spray ink!

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  12. are you freakin kidding me??!!! this is awesome!!! you did diana proud. ;oD - heidi, sketchy thursdays

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  13. Lauren I linked across from Sketchy Thursdays and had to tell you how much I LOVE your card!! You do absolutely amazing things with spray ink and other techniques that I'm still just dabbling in. Loving your creations, thanks so much for the inspiration :)

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  14. I just about dropped when I saw this!! Stunning!! Seriously. So glad I got the hook-up to your blog from my pal (and yours) Leslie aka crookedstamper.

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