UK Stampers Forum – greeting card swap & Martin’s sketch challenge

The fabulous Martin has decided to share a sketch daily on his socials and so I took the first of those sketches he created on 1st January and made a card which is actually one I will swap as part of the UK Stampers Forum swap.

This is the card I made.

I followed the sketch reasonably closely…

Obviously the sentiment I had to play around with slightly and moved the horizontal strip up to accommodate the Happy die cut above the Birthday die cut.

I also added an extra layer of cardstock to bring the dark purple out in the papers more.

I used old making cards magazine papers (yes I am trying to use them even outside of the first of the month challenge) and the feathers inspired me to get my old waffle flower feathers stamp set out for the focal feature.

I wasn’t keen on the feathers on the circle on their own though so grabbed an Alpaca Pals stamp to add the white heat embossed squiggle circle onto the pink die cut.

That worked well in giving the feathers somewhere to sit.

I added the sentiment and then had some circle die cuts sitting in a pot in a purple colour that I thought worked well.

I distressed the edge of the pink layer of cardstock to expose the white and then made the card blank out of another purple cardstock – so it’s a very pink and purple card in the end!

Loved using the sketch – no way I will be able to do all 365 but it was fun to get one done now and we will see how many others I manage over the course of his (insane) challenge of one whole year of sketches! Good luck Martin!

Happy crafting!

Catherine