Poochie's Sketch

Today's card is another Cat's Pajamas card. Poochie was starting to feel left out, since I showcased Sprinkle earlier this week. LOL. The fabulous paper on this card is from the Tres Jolie line of My Mind's Eye. I just love the colors, textures and weight of this paper - and it totally rocks that it's double-sided.

The first thing I did when I sat down at my desk was to map out the sketch. Often layout is an afterthought with me, and I make all the pieces and then move them around until I like the layout. But I wanted to give you all another sketch to play with, so I put on my thinking cap and here's what I came up with. It's similar to a layout I did for a previous card and just loved. I think there are a lot of possibilities, which is what makes a good sketch in my opinion. I hope you have fun with it. Be sure to come back and leave a comment with a link to your card if you do the sketch - I'd love to see what you all come up with.

I started by stamping The Cat's Pajamas Dog & Flower {F-7425} in Timber Brown Stazon on Very Vanilla paper and colored in with Prismacolor pencils and a Stardust gel pen. I then punched him out with my Marvy Super Jumbo punch, layered onto a Chocolate Chip circle (cut with Creative Memories Circle Cutting System) and then glued to a Marvy Mega Scalloped Circle punch of Tres Jolie paper.

Next I stamped Hello {B-4212} in Timber Brown and punched out with a Marvy Mega Scalloped Square punch. I then cut the sides off of the square and matted on a Giga Scalloped square punch of the Tres Jolie paper with the sides cut off. Next I used my handheld rectangle punch to punch holes to slide ribbon through, wrapped the ribbon around the Tres Jolie paper and tied a bow.

Then I glued down the panels, pierced holes in the scallops and mounted the image panel on thick pop dots. I added a glue dot below the ribbon dot to keep it from sliding around and slid a pop dot under the Hello sentiment to make it pop.