I just called to say I love you

Hello, crafting friends!

It's Tuesday and time for another of our weekly challenges at CAS Colours and Sketches. Wei is our host for April and what a great sketch she's come up with for her final challenge of the month!

Those strong diagonal lines are striking aren't they? I opted to use them as a background for my card.

I chose a line stamp from Uniko's Background Builders Classics and used grid paper in my stamping platform to help me stamp it three times with even spacing. I went for a grey ink because I wanted my card to be monochrome with just a pop of yellow. The card panel was trimmed to size with a stitched rectangle die from Heffy Doodle.

The phone is from Sugar Peaz's Call Me and I think it's such a lovely way to say hello! I stamped it and coloured it with seven different grey alcohol markers to get that matte shine, then stamped the dial again on a separate piece of card, adding the numbers. This was coloured and cut out and popped up on the phone. The centre of the dial was stamped separately again and a tiny die cut heart decorated with a gem added to the centre. This was glued to the centre of the dial.

The final details were stamping a cord connecting the receiver to the body of the telephone and adding one of the sweet sentiments from the set.

So, now it's your turn! As always, there is so much inspiration over on the challenge blog from my team mates and from this month's wonderful guest designer, Melanie Hungerford. Do go and have a look and you'll also find the Linky Tool where you can link up your own creations. Please remember to keep your design clean and simple!

CHALLENGES

I haven't managed to  join in at the Tic Tac Toe challenge for a little while but I've chosen the Hearts/Encouraging Sentiment/Vintage column to inspire this card; the colour scheme is from Color Hues where they're looking for Grey and Yellow. I'm also linking up with NBUS, the place to share our Never Before Used Schtuff, as it's the first time I've inked up the Call Me stamp set.

AND IN OTHER NEWS

I made this card for my daughter who sent me a book which absolutely blew me away (Paranesi by Susannah Clarke if you're interested.) My glowing review has encouraged her to want to read it herself so I thought I'd send it back to her with this card. She will be amused by the phone because we have something quite similar sitting in our hall!

It is a vintage phone that has been rewired so that it works with a modern phone socket, and was our housewarming present to ourselves when we moved here. It always makes my husband jump out of his skin when it rings but we would never part with it!

Sending hugs,