2012-02-24 Sketch challenge for the Diva’s

A stamping friend of mine invited me to join in a 1-4-1 swap group. I just signed up and am on my way to swapping out my first card.

For the first project we were given a sketch (shown in the photo). I used to love sketch challenges so this was and interesting start. I knew I wanted to use the punched bird and butterfly’s when I started, but didn’t really have any other ideas. Other products that I forgot to add were a few assorted embossing folders, gold leaf pen, ribbon, gelly roll glitter pen and mini 1/2 pearls. The pad of paper that I pulled the DSP from is an economy pack I bought at a rummage sale made by Me & My Big Ideas.

And here is the finished sketch challenge card. I flipped the sketch so that the butterfly’s were on the bottom. I embossed, stamped and punched my way through the whole card. The images of the bird and verse are by Stampin’ Up. I also used the bird punch that includes the leafy branch by Stampin’ Up.

I personally think that a plain bow looks naked. To cover it’s nakedness I added a tiny punched butterfly punch (Martha Stewart) right in the center. I punched it out of matching DSP and then colored the polka dots with the glitter pen.

The butterfly circles are actually 2 circles in various sizes and then a butterfly mounted in the center of each. I loosely scribbled the glitter pen over the wings and then added 2 mini 1/2 pearls to each.

Here you can see that I stamped the bird in black ink onto patterned DSP. I fussy glued 3 bird punches together to make a study base then glued the pattered stamped piece to the top of the stack of punches. I wish I had done that for the bird wing as well. I again scribbled the glitter pen to highlight, added some red colored pencil to the beak and down the tummy and lastly highlighted the beak and what would you call it, it’s warble? with crystal effects.

My swap card is now drying and will be ready to go when my swap partner is assigned.