Welcome back to the craft room and today’s Flashback Friday My Card Sketch’s post. Way back in August 2008, I wanted to try my hand at designing a couple of card sketches. After playing around in Photoshop Elements, I came up with two different ideas. To test how they would work in real life, I used the sketches to create birthday cards for my mother-in-law and her twin sister.
My Card Sketch’s
Sketch #1 and Birthday Card
I had been playing around in Photoshop and created a couple of card sketches just for fun. Later that evening, while working on a birthday card for my mother-in-law, I decided to use one of them.
Here’s the sketch:
And here’s the card, it’s pretty basic, but I think it turned out pretty nice.
Editing Leen here: I didn’t add any extra details in the original post—what you see above is exactly what I wrote back in 2008. But I can fill in some of the blanks now! The butterfly stamp is from the Autumn Leaves Nature stamp set, and the fluttering trail is actually two stamps from the Autumn Leaves Flourishes set.
Given the timing of this post, I’m guessing I colored the butterfly with my Martha Stewart colored pencils and blended it out using baby oil. As for the sentiment, I’d bet it was created and printed in Microsoft Word.
Sketch #2 and Birthday Card
Here’s another sketch I had been playing around with, along with the birthday card I made for my husband’s aunt.
Here is the second sketch:
And here’s the finished card:
Clearly, I didn’t give many details about this card back then either! The watering can stamp is from Hero Arts and remains one of my favorite wood block stamps. Like the previous card, the image was most likely colored with my Martha Stewart pencils and blended with baby oil and a blending stump.
One detail that stands out on this card is the ribbon treatment. After stamping the Happy Birthday sentiment with Memento Tuxedo Black ink, I measured equal distances on either side of the sentiment and carefully cut slits with an X-acto knife—just wide enough for the ribbon to pass through. I then threaded the ribbon through the slits and secured it on the back of the panel before adhering it to the card front. It’s a lovely look—and one that I’d probably recreate using my Cricut machine these days for a more precise finish.
Thanks for joining me for today’s Flashback Friday My Card Sketch’s post. It’s always fun to look back at earlier projects and see how far things have come—not just in technique, but in tools too!
Have you ever created your own card sketches or rediscovered old ones you forgot about? I’d love to hear about your own “forgotten finds” in the comments below. Wishing you a wonderful weekend—I’ll see you back in the craft room soon!
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