Second Week of 2010 Challenge - Card Sketch Challenge

Written and Created by PaperCraftCentral Susan

Details for the Second Week of 2010 Challenge

For the Second Week of 2010 Challenge the task was to make a card based on my sketch below.

This is a challenge that may teach you how to use Card Sketches and help you with your creative mojo. No matter when this challenge was created, the techniques and fun is still the same!

You could use whatever colours, papers, stamps  and/or embellishments you liked. You could make it for any occasion you wished. All you had to do was to show me a card based on the sketch, using the items you already had in your crafty stash.

That's all!

And if you did make a card, you could have won a special little RAK from me. Scroll down to find out what the RAK was and who won. It added to the fun of creating something new at the time. Why not promise yourself a little reward if you complete this challenge, since the original RAK has already been won?

To inspire you I had already made a card with the sketch and had used some of the new stamps from the then upcoming Sale-A-Bration catalogue.

For the main embellishment, I stamped out the main image in two different colours, then punched out the different elements of it and put them back together using the two different colours.

You can do this too if you have circle punches or Stampin' Cut and Emboss Machine dies to fit such a circle embellishment.You could also use a circle punch to get this same effect.

Then I popped up the centre pieces with some Stampin' Dimensionals.

You may wonder how I made the top section of the card?

I used my brayer and an ink pad for that. I tore a piece of scrap paper to make a mask, then laid that down on the card. I brayered over the torn bit of my mask and the top of the card.

If you would like to see how this type of masking is done, I demonstrate the technique on my Reflections Card page.

Don't be afraid to experiment with the sketch a little. Your card doesn't have to wind up being an exact copy of my sketch. My intent is simply to inspire you to make a card this week that is based on the sketch, not necessarily copying it exactly. Sketches are for inspiration, after all.

Now it's your turn. Go ahead and make a card. And be sure to show me what you have made, OK? I'd love to see what you do with the Challenge sketch, anytime.

Don't be afraid to change the sketch to portrait mode if you like that better, or flip it to be a mirror image or even turn it upside down.

If you like what you make with this sketch, try making more cards using different colours, images or even using pretty designer series paper.

Make the sketch into whatever card you want it to be.

Oh I had better not forget about the little RAK I gave out in 2010. This week the last person to upload an entry (before midnight on Sunday 31st January Eastern Standard Time) received a handmade greeting card from me as a prize. I hope they enjoyed it!

And now I hope you enjoy the sketch challenge.

And if you want to see some more card sketch ideas. try browsing through the Stampin' Up! Annual catalogue for inspiration, or go to Page Maps for Cardmakers online. They aren't adding any new sketches there but the archives of their previous card sketches are very useful.

I hope you will share your card or cards with me. Take a picture and tell me how you went using a card sketch. 

You could then be published on PaperCraftCentral.com! You could share what you did with friends and family that way, without paying any postage costs.

And it will last a long time online too. As long as PaperCraftCentral.com exists.

Don't forget there are quite a few other challenges you can try out on the Creative Challenges page! Try them out with a crafty friend and see how your two projects turn out. Usually, they turn out different even if you use the same materials and colours! There are no rights and wrongs in crafting, only in knowing if you like something or not.

Or you could try something else that is new to you:

• Using Origami in your cardmaking projects
• Make a mini album
• Try your hand at making an Explosion Box Album
• Make a handmade gift box
• Make some gift tags with your scraps

If you have another idea in mind, try searching papercraftcentral to see if there is any information here already that could help you out.

And that about wraps it up for the Second Week of 2010 Challenge.