Here’s a recent card that I taught in my classes which is taken from a sketch challenge.

The challenge is to take an idea or sample from the Stampin’ Up! catalogue and use it as inspiration for your card. Here is the idea…

If you visit CASE-ing Tuesday Sketches you will be able to see more and take part in the current challenges.

My finished card was inspired from one made by Jolanda Johnstone. If you visit the CASE-ing Tuesday Sketches you will see her card and find that I have changed mine up quite a bit from her original design. I kept the sponging elements, on the background and butterflies as I thought the casual colouring of the sponging worked well with the sketched look of these stamps. I wouldn’t want to colour these butterflies too precisely and lose that casual sketched look.

I decided to do something different for the inside of my card and I made a simple pop up card.

This is done on a insert card which is slightly smaller than the base card. I folded my insert card in half and made a pencil mark 4 cm mark on either side of the fold line at the top and another 4.5 cm down on the fold line. Then I scored down both sides to make the angled pop out piece. I added some butterflies to the left hand side. When the card is open the butterflies pop up but they fold back down when the card is closed.