Layers of Blue

The current challenge over at Christmas Challenges with Sketches is to use the sketch on a gift bag. You can follow the link to see the sketch if you'd like; they ask that people don't repost it.

It's a very layered sketch. I like it, but normally I wouldn't attempt it -- lots of layers start looking really silly on a 2-inch-wide bookmark! However, I figured that a bag ought to give me plenty of room.

So I rummaged around in my wrapping supplies and found a bag I'd saved from some gift or other. It was blue, which was perfect: clearly I should do something wintery and snowflakey with the layers of the sketch.

I invested my creativity in making paper designs rather than altering the sketch much -- I decorated all the papers myself (except for the black one with big glittery white dots, which was a scrap). I think the black with silver snowflakes is probably the prettiest one... too bad it's mostly covered up!

Tip: My craft sheet was pretty messy after creating the first three or four papers -- white ink, silver ink, shimmer spritz and even some stray glitter and embossing power were everywhere! Don't waste this lovely mess -- take another piece of paper and rub it all over the craft sheet. Now you have a cleaner craft sheet and a cool piece of paper -- mine's the darker blue piece with the dove in the upper right.

I had a specific color inspiration, hence the use of black as well as blue and white -- but I can't show it, because it's the present inside the bag, and the recipient reads my blog.

(Hey Anya, I have a present for you...)

I'm entering this bag in the following challenges:

• Christmas Challenges (with Sketches) #53: Sketch with a Twist - Use a Bag
• Repeat Impressions Designer's Choice Challenge 125: Tags or Bags (bag, not tag... it would make an awfully large tag!)
• Stamptacular Sunday #193: Anything But a Card
• Divas by Design 64: Let It Snow
• Simon Says Stamp: Snowflakes
• Charisma Cardz #48: Christmas!
• Delightful Challenge: All About Christmas
• Sparkles Monthly #38: Christmas is Coming
• Top Tip Tuesday 91: Christmas (a Christmasy creation and a tip, too!)
• The Cupboard Trilogy #6: Frosty Winter

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