I don't often play along with sketch challenges (and you'll see my lack of experience soon), but when I saw the Paper Players Sketch Challenge I knew it was the perfect opportunity to use one of Gina K's Master Layout 11 dies which have been housed in my NBUS box for a very long time.
It's a "window die" with four sections so you can see why I was anxious to use it. However, I did not look at the sketch carefully enough, so the first card I made looks like this:
Not necessarily a bad card, but you can see that I totally ignored two major portions of the sketch. The second time around, I was much more careful, and I much prefer this card:
Most of the ingredients remained the same: Hawaiian Shores cardstock, white woodgrain cardstock, butterflies and leaves from Pinkfresh Studio's Fluttering Butterflies Washi tape and dies, and the beautiful patterned paper from Altenew, Gel Printing Soft Washes. Both sentiments were foiled in gold on white. The first sentiment came from Pinkfresh Studio's Favorite Things Sentiments, and the second from Spellbinders Betterpress Always and Forever.
I'm not likely to forget the need to commit all the parts of a sketch to my memory the next time, but it's nice to have two more cards in the stash. I'm sending the top card off to the Triple B Challenge: Birds, Blooms &/or Butterflies. Triple B always offers a gorgeous inspiration piece, but it's truly just that, and there's no requirement to follow the colors (as beautiful as they are for May)!
