OWH Sketch Challenge - 248

Did you know that Operation Write Home has almost 250 different sketches that you can use as inspiration?  And they are still coming out with new ones a couple of times each month!  You can check all of them out here.  I'm sure you will find something you like!  Here is what #248 looks like:

For some reason I was having trouble figuring out a direction for this sketch.  I started out by trying a new to me shaving cream technique that I found on Stamp TV.  After playing around with that for a bit I came up with this card:

I used some shave cream found in the travel size section of my local commissary and re-inkers from Club Scrap.  That panel was used to cut three circles with dies from Spellbinders, and the decorative "flower" with a GEO die from Pop-Ups Etc.  The little flower dies are also from Spellbinders.

Other supplies I used are:
**paper, sentiment tag cut-apart, and ribbon all from Club Scrap
**it doesn't show up very well in the photo, but I used a stamp from Technique Junkies to add a little texture to the background.
**I don't know where the "gems" are from, but they are altered with Copic markers.

Hope you are staying warm today!  Thanks for stopping by.