Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Getting to the "core" of things...

This weeks' challenge at Practical Scrappers was to use white or color-core cardstock.

Lucky duck I am, my sweet friend Juanita recently gave me a whole pad of Coredinations Cardstock that was already dry embossed with Cosmo Cricket patterns. If you've never played with Coredinations, you must! Their cardstock is so much fun to sand, tear and play with because it always has a different color core than the main outside color. Too much fun!

My layout for the challenge is a mixture of (way) old and new products in my stash and combines the latest sketch from Sketchy Thursdays:


Patterned Paper: Paper Pizazz, Studio Calico // Cardstock: Coredinations/Cosmo Cricket, Bazzil // Alphabet & Large Bling Brad: Pink Paislee // Pearls: Close To My Heart // Gold Pen: American Crafts // Large Flower: Wal-Mart

For the color-core cardstock portion, I sanded the dry-embossed design and tore along the edge to bring the inner color to the fore front. I cut out some fancy flowers from a sheet of Studio Calico paper, and added a big peony (shamelessly from the fake floral section at WalMart) centered with a gorgeous bling brad from Pink Paislee. For the title, I smudged some PearlFX powder across the foamy Pink Paislee Artesian Alphabet. You can't really tell here, but it's nice and shiny now!

Have you had a chance to check out the rest of the amazing projects with white core and color core products that our great DT has come up with this week? Go check them out by clicking here and playing along for a chance to win some beautiful digi stamps from Robin's Fetish.

5 comments:

Kelly Massman said...

That's a really beautiful layout! I love that big white flower with the papers!

lisa said...

Great take on the sketch : )

Julie Tucker-Wolek said...

This is STUNNING!! LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE the photos and loving how you made the circle!! !Thanks sooooooooooooo much for playing along with Sketchy Thursdays! :):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):)

Diana Fisher said...

Love how you made the circles with the pearls!

Debbie said...

Beautiful Jessica! Love the background and the simplicity in the photos! Gorgeous flowers!