Hedgehog, Freshly Brewed

I decided that today was a Hedgehog-coloring kind of day, and I just had to use the color inspiration at Freshly Brewed (even though I know it's a mostly-digi site; sorry!). Instead of specific colors, they're asking us to create cards inspired by the picture on the right. Check out all of those shams! It reminds me of the conversation I had years ago with my husband, about whether we should get pillow shams for our bed. Wait, you take the pillows off the bed at night‽ he exclaimed. We do not own pillow shams!

For extra fun, I used this lovely sketch by Friday Sketchers, a site I just discovered. It's just the level of complexity and simplicity that I like. I was pleased to be able to use my heart-flourish stamps for the little butterfly call-out. I stamped the sentiment in the same green as the flourishes, on Core'dinations cardstock that I then tore prettily with my tear edger. I had sanded the middle of the cardstock piece first, to give it some extra dimension.
Inspiration:
Freshly Brewed Challenge #32
Friday Sketchers Challenge #139

Supplies: Decorative paper by the Paper Studio, Recollections and Core'dinations cardstocks, CraftSmart, ColorBox and Memento inks, Fiskars papercutter, tear edger, and corner punch, Offray ribbon, emery board, Copic Ciao markers, sentiment stamp by Hero Arts, silicon flourish stamps from stash, Bountiful rubber stamp by Penny Black

Update 2/2/11: This card won the Freshly Brewed Challenge #32! Color me honored!