The Best

Hi friends!  It's Monday again and time for a new Mojo Monday sketch.  This week's sketch is one I based off a favorite card of mine from Verve's last release.  I loved how it turned out and thought it would make a great sketch.  I hope you enjoy it.  I certainly had fun making another card with it.

For this card, I wanted to keep things a bit more simple and masculine as it's a card for my hubby.  We've had a lot change in our lives the past year and a half and at times the picture of what a day in the Tilman house is like can be overwhelming.  I hold on to this little phrase with all my heart as we futilely try to teach the boys to share when they are not at the age to understand what sharing is ... the BEST is yet to come.  So this card is just a little shout out of encouragement to Mark who's been working long hours and then coming home to full-contact 2 man diaper changes and 2AM constipation shriekfests.  Oh joy!  {wink}

Anyhow... the card.  I pulled out some Bazzill Basics Aged Papers I got in a monthly kit a while back, because I've been itching to make some book print flowers with the flower from Let it Be.  I fussy cut them, layered them with dimensionals and then added a bit of black liquid pearls to highlight the center, finishing off with an olive rhinestone in the center.  The sentiment is also from Let it Be and stamped onto cram paper.  The center panel is just a rectangle of DP that I glued two Flourished Trim Die cuts to.  I love how it looks shaped, but is so much easier than trying to line up a die on the top and bottom.  The back panel is pear pizzazz and I embossed it with the Charles embossing folder.  My new fave!!!  I finished off with a bit of seam binding from the new Summer Sailing Ribbon Collection .

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Be sure to hop on over to the Mojo Monday blog to see what the other gals did with this sketch.  It's always a treat!

Enabler's List
Stamps: Let it Be (Verve Stamps)
Paper: Aged Papers (Bazzill), pear pizzazz, basic black (SU!), cream (Neenah)
Ink: black
Accessories:  Flourished Trim Die (A Cut Above by VERVE), Summer Sailing Ribbon Collection (Verve), black liquid pearls (Ranger), Charles embossing folder (Cuttlebug), olive rhinestone (Pizzazz Aplenty)