Paper Craft Planet Sketch and Celebration

If you haven’t stopped by Paper Craft Planet in a while, you want to make sure to make a visit soon. We’re 5 weeks in to a special partnership with Stampendous, Tsukineko, and Creative Impressions that’s bringing you Back to Basics, a 12 week stamping class with lots of inspiration and fabulous prizes. You don’t want to miss out! Each week has a different focus and a challenge, too. If you participate in the challenge, you’ll have the opportunity to win a generous prize package.

PCP is also celebrating World Cardmaking Day today with a Group Hop, starting today at 9:00 am EST and wrapping up at 10:00 pm EST. A different group will host each hour. There will be challenges, games, prizes, and lots of fun, so be sure to check in. You can find information about the lineup here.

And, it’s also time for this week’s sketch challenge. I’m the hostess for this week’s challenge and I have a sketch that I’ve been playing around with this week to share with you. If you stopped by earlier this week, you saw this card using the sketch. I liked how it turned out, so I thought I'd use it for the sketch for this week's challenge.

Here's another version of the sketch. It’s an anniversary card for a couple celebrating their 69th—yes, that’s right!—wedding anniversary. I used the elegant bride and groom image from Gina K’s Heartfelt Hits 1 set as the focal image on my card. It’s stamped in black ink on shimmery white cardstock and colored just a bit with Copic markers.

I used the Morocco Lace border punch along the bottom edge of the silver panel. It seemed like a nice match for the image. The sentiment is stamped above the decorative edge. I found that VersaFine ink works nicely on a shimmery paper like this one. I tried my Memento ink first and it looked kind of washed out. I added a pair of self adhesive pearls to the left edge of the panel. The card is so shimmery and elegant IRL--the photo doesn't do it justice!

If you play along, be sure to use the keyword sk100309 when you upload to the PCP gallery so I can add it to the album with the other cards from this week's challenge.

Materials Used:
Heartfelt Hits 1 stamp set (Gina K Designs); Tuxedo Black ink (Memento); Onyx Black ink (VersaFine); markers (Copic); Pink Pirouette, Basic Gray, and Shimmery White cardstock, gray taffeta ribbon, silver cord (Stampin’ Up!); Morocco Lace border punch (EK Success); silver paper (Target); button (Papertrey Ink); self-adhesive pearls (KaiserCraft)