Saturday, September 25, 2010

Life is Short: Read Fast...



For my next Unscripted Sketches challenge #74 we used this sketch.

I chose to rotate and elongate the sketch. I made a bookmark with my fabulous PTI Ocean tides wool felt. I cut the felt using my PTI Library Card die which cut like buttah by the way. Gorgeous! Using my ticket die and Just the Ticket stamp set I made the little border on the side - oh my, can I say I just love that ticket die? I also used All Booked Up stamp set for the sentiments and focal image. The deco paper is October Afternoon Thrift Store and was cut using PTI Mat Stack dies #1 & #4. Then with my fabulous Crop-a-dile I added the eyelets along the edge. I love how this turned out. I wanted the bookmark to be flat to preserve the integrity of any book it is placed in - but still have layers and cuteness. I topped it off with PTI Dark Chocolate grosgrain and Baker's Twine. The sentiments I chose are: Life is Short - Read Fast and As soon as I finish this chapter - which coincidentally is what I often hear from my boys...

My bookmark also works for the following challenges...

Shabby Tearoom Challenge - week 28 photo inspiration - colors and school - my colors were the brown, aqua and white/cream in the background and books & school go hand-in-hand in my opinion


The Pink Elephant - TPE 84 - use the color aqua, designer paper and embellishment of your choice - I used Ocean Tides as my aqua color, October Afternoon Thrift store papers for my designer paper and ribbon and eyelets for embellishments.

8 comments:

Lelia Pierce said...

I love, love, love this one Angy! It is beautiful! Such an enabler...now I see more PTI things I "need"! :O)

XXX

Lisa said...

I just love PTI products and I love what you did with that felt! What a serene bookmark, makes me want to curl up with a good book! Thanks so much for playing in TSTR!

Unknown said...

Very pretty! Great idea to create a bookmark with the sketch, it's fantastic!

Clare said...

beautiful bookmark! love the colors, thanks for playing along this week at The Shabby Tea Room.

Debbie said...

Oh so pretty!! Thanks for sharing with us in the Tea Room this week :)

Nicole said...

Pretty! love the felt and the color combo! Thanks for playing along with us at TSTR! :)

Marcy said...

I love your bookmark. What a great way to use the sketch. I have to start using some felt on my projects, too.

Terri said...

Great way to interpret the sketch! Very cool!

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