Special Saturday Sketch Challenge at Paper Craft Planet

It's time for a new sketch challenge at Paper Craft Planet. This week, we are thrilled to have MyGrafico sponsor our sketch challenge and offer a fun prize. While you don't have to use any particular stamp sets or products to win the sketch challenge, MyGrafico wanted you to be able to play along. To celebrate National Scrapbook Day, they are offering 40% off all digital downloads until May 3rd! They also have two really great sets that you can download for FREE! (Here are the freebies: Baby Silhouettes and Vases and Flowers.) Plus, if you play along during this week's sketch challenge, you can win the Butterfly Garden set!

Check out this amazing sketch by Melanie Muenchinger!

Want to play along? Create a card using Melanie's sketch and then upload it onto PCP. Use the tag: sk050209 That's all there is to it!

Here's my version of the sketch using one of the butterfly stamps from the Butterfly Garden set. I created a 4 1/4" square card with pretty spring colors. The card base is Papertrey Ink's Sweet Blush cardstock, covered with sparkly patterned paper from a K & Company paper pad.

I resized one of the butterfly images just a bit to fit the circle opening in my image panel. I used a Nestabilities die to cut out the circle frame and also to create the very narrow scalloped circle frame to surround the opening.

The butterfly was printed on white cardstock and colored with Copic markers. I covered it with a light coating of Pink Shimmerz paint.

To add a little more dimension, I printed the butterfly image again, this time on a piece of vellum. I cut around the image, then attached it to the colored image with some glue (I like to use a Sakura Quickie Glue Pen when I do this). I added a simple sentiment from the Verve Stamps Circular Sayings set to complete the card.

To get you excited, the rest of our DT is showcasing the sketch challenge prize set Butterfly Garden. Check out their blogs sometime today to see what they made :)

Melanie Muechinger

Lynn Mercurio

Adela Rossol

Kim Burmeister

Wendy Price

Jen Tapler

Tammy Hershberger

Diana Gibbs

Erika Martin

Jessica Fick

Sankari Wegman

Susanna Boyd

Check out our sketch challenge entries for this week

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