Sketch Saturday #236

It's Saturday which means another fab sketch from

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It's Steph's week this week and she has come up with a fabulous sketch which has enabled me to 'speriment with a design I have admired in some of my blog buddy's work where their paper panels are sticking outside the main body of the card.  In order to achieve this I had to make my paper panels much larger than they appear in the sketch and they are not symmetrical but hopefully Steph's sketch is still visible under all of the bits and pieces I added to my creation.

I used a new addition to my DCWV papers called Chateau Lavender.  I think these papers are soooooo pretty. I even distressed them which is very unusual for me.  My card is for The Hubster for our anniversary and hopefully he won't look at my blog before I give him the card  in December.  I used two hAnglar images that I bought at least a year ago (maybe two) and which have never seen ink and I coloured them in Copics.  They were fiddly little figures to cut out and I should have merged them together when I stamped them so as to avoid having to cut around the flower and leaves but hey ho...best laid plans and all that.  I mounted them on a vintagey picture that looks so much like Prague where Tom and I have spent many a happy time.  You will need to click on the image to make it bigger so you can see it.  The characters are so large that most of the picture is obscured but I look forward to standing in Old Town Square with Tom next time we go and pointing out the view that almost exactly matches the picture on the paper even though, judging by the name of the paper pack, I think the picture is of somewhere in France!

I added a little bit of lace (thank you PQ!) and some lovely flowers (the ribbon of roses and the large brown flower are from Wild Orchid), a Memory Box heart strand which I cut using best mate Julie's die last time she came to play (thank you Julie!) and my sentiment is a metal embellishment from Making Memories.  I had to move my sentiment to the top left - sorry Steph! 

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

The Ribbon Girl "Lavender Hues"

Crafts and Me "Ribbon or Trim"

Simon Says Stamp "Anything Goes"

My teamies have provided lots of lovely inspiration.  Do pop by and share some love with them and then come and play along.