Paper Craft Planet Sketch Challenge

Here's my sample for this week's sketch challenge at Paper Craft Planet. I love sketch challenges and I was thrilled to find out that this was one of the things that Susanna had planned for the site. Each Saturday, you'll find a new sketch posted in the Sketch Challenge Group. When you upload your card to Paper Craft Planet, be sure to use the keyword SK110808 so your card will get into this week's gallery. As an added bonus, this week's challenge has a great prize package donated by Sakura. A random winner will be selected on Friday, November 14.

My card uses the Snow Flurry set from Kitchen Sink Stamps. The large snowflake image is stamped in Baja Breeze ink. I covered it with Versamark, then with Iridescent Ice embossing powder and heat embossed it for lots of sparkle (which doesn't really show in the photo . . .). And, for just a little more sparkle, I added some rhinestones to the center and points of the snowflake image.

I picked the colors for the card to match the fun holiday/winter designer papers from the Be Merry line from My Mind's Eye. I picked up these papers from i {heart} papers. I stitched them together using my sewing machine.

The sentiment is from another KSS set, Never a Loss 4 Words. It's kind of a nice, neutral sentiment for a winter themed card. I stamped it in Riding Hood Red ink, then added a rhinestone to the right edge as an embellishment. I used some silver metallic ribbon (also from IHP) from under the sentiment panel to the left edge of the card as one final sparkly, shimmery detail.

Materials Used:
Snow Flurry stamp set (Kitchen Sink Stamps); My Mind's Eye Be Merry patterned papers, May Arts solid metallic silver ribbon (i {heart} papers); Baja Breeze and Riding Hood Red Classic inks, Baja Breeze, Riding Hood Red, and Whisper White cardstock, Versamark, Iridescent Ice embossing powder, dimensionals (Stampin' Up!); circle, petite scalloped circle, and oval dies (Nestabilities); small rhinestones (Walmart); large self-adhesive rhinestone (Michaels)