Looking back on the art I’ve been making for the past few months I’ve done quite a bit of digital work. I started really delving into Procreate when we went on Vacation earlier this year, and I haven’t stopped exploring the possibilities since. While planning for our vacation in late February and early March of his year I opted to take only my camera and iPad. No knitting, no sketch book, no art supplies. This was the first time I’d ever taken only my iPad, with the intent of creating art while on a vacation. I had a plan to limit my supplies and challenge myself to only using procreate. My plan worked, I learned a lot about procreate and I enjoyed to process. The biggest thing I learned was how very freeing being able to sit on the couch or the porch at night with just an iPad and a pencil was. There was no figuring out where to put supplies, or how to juggle a sketchbook on my lap, or being confined to the table. The other bonus ...
These cards are from a few weeks ago when I was focused on combining the use of card sketches with my scrap stash. For these three cards, I used Freshly Made Sketch #197 and a few elements from my embellishment stash.
For this first card, I worked with a complementary color palette of blues and yellow oranges. I started by running the yellow-orange card stock through an older Tim Holtz Texture Fades embossing folder called Stripes and adhered it to a white card base. Then I began laying my elements, starting with a banner of textured dark blue that I cut using the Homenty Bee Stamp Banner builder dies. Layer three is a square cut using some older patterned paper and the Art Impressions Stitched Squares dies.
I added the sentiment using a stitched oval cut with Simon Says Stamps stitched oval dies and stamped “miss you” with a stamp set from My Favorite Things. To complete the card I added a butterfly cut from a dark shade of yellow-orange cardstock using the Mememor Box Pinpoint Butterfly Trio and a few pearls.
To create cards two and three, I swapped the stripes embossing folder for the Swiss dots from Cuttle Bug, used a cream cardstock, and adhered it to a kraft card base. I pulled rusty orange scrap of solid card stock from my stash and cut two of the same style banner strips. I cut two stitched squares from some older polka-dot paper and layered that on top. This time I cut the stitched oval from cream to match the Swiss dot background and added a birthday sentiment from Simon Says Stamp.
The butterflies on these two cards are from an older pack of embellishments that I had in my stash from several years ago. they were the perfect focal piece. To finish these cards I selected more of the same pearls from the first card design.
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