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Good Friday morning! Sketch Frenzy Friday is ready to challenge you with another sketch. Are you ready? This week's sketch is brought to us by - ME!! I came up with this week's sketch! So I do hope you will find time to play with us this week.

For my card I started with a card base of Pear Pizzazz. I then decided that I wanted to use the leafy stamp and the flower from Growing Green and watercolor them. So I used watercolor paper, Pear Pizzazz and Peach Parfait markers and my aqua painter to watercolor them (I stamped them in Black StazOn). The flower was stamped on a separate piece so I could cut it out. I used my photo corners punch and punched out a corner from Concord Crush and glued it to the card. The leafy stamped panel is popped up as is the cut out flower. Then I stamped the leafy stamp in Pear Pizzazz on the side of the card and the greeting from Sincere Salutations in Concord Crush right over the top. I then added a line of basic pearls underneath. And there you have it! A nice spring card!

So now head over to Jennifer's blog to see what she did with the sketch. Be sure to click your way through the tour to get inspired and then create your project using this week's sketch. Upload it to the Sketch Frenzy Friday blog so we can all see! Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Growing Green, Sincere Salutations; Paper- Pear Pizzazz, Concord Crush, watercolor paper; Ink- Black StazOn, Pear Pizzazz, Peach Parfait, Concord Crush; Accessories- basic pearls, aqua painter, photo corners punch, dimensionals

CCMC 142 Goes Green!

Good morning, Friends! And Happy St. Patty's Day!! Are you wearing green today? The Create with Connie and Mary team have decided to make this week's challenge a fun one to help celebrate the day - Go Green! That's right! It's a theme challenge to go green! This can be interpreted so many ways - recycling, green for St. Patrick's Day or just green in general. And there might be more ways to interpret this challenge. For me it meant to go monochromatic with green.

I started my card out with an Always Artichoke card base. Then I layered a Pear Pizzazz piece that was punched with the scallop edge punch. I then added another piece of Always Artichoke. Then I took some watercolor paper and stamped the leaf image with black StazOn from the Growing Green stamp set (very appropriate, don't you think) and watercolored it with Pear Pizzazz marker and an aqua painter. This is glued onto the Always Artichoke piece. Then I took a piece of Pear Pizzazz and used the banner part of the Petal Cone die and ran that through the Big Shot to cut the banner. I stamped the greeting from Teeny Tiny Wishes in Always Artichoke and folded the cardstock to look like a banner. I had to add two dimensionals to the back to get it to stand up like it is. There you have it! A super simple monochromatic green card! 

Be sure to check out the rest of the talented design team at Create with Connie and Mary! They will have even more ways to Go Green! Then make your project and upload it to the Create with Connie and Mary site. We would love to see what you do! And don't forget to use 100% Stampin' Up! products so that you can be entered into a drawing to win a FREE subscription to Create Summer Edition!! Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!

Card Recipe: Stamps- Growing Green, Teeny Tiny Wishes; Paper- Always Artichoke, Pear Pizzazz, watercolor paper; Ink- Black StazOn, Pear Pizzazz, Always Artichoke; Accessories- aqua painter, Petal Cone die, dimensionals