Sketch Challenge with Butterfly Bijou

This week’s horizontal sketch challenge from the Paper Craft Crew (PCC422) looked really interesting so I decided to join in the fun. And I decided I’d join in the sketch challenge with Butterfly Bijou DSP as one of my elements. I really love this paper and totally see how it sold out before May 3rd. I’m sad that it’s not carrying over into the new Annual catalogue, but am still going to enjoy crafting with it while I can. Here’s the sketch that started it all..

From here I pulled out my Butterfly Bijou DSP and decided to go with a monochromatic look. So the colour of course came from the DSP design I chose… Calypso Coral. For the card base I went with Basic White to help the Calypso Coral pop.

Part of why I love the Butterfly Bijou DSP is because I LOVE butterflies. And so I used one of the butterflies from the coordinating Brilliant Wings dies for my “any shape”. This also sparked the idea to use the other side of the Calypso Coral DSP design for my circle on the sketch. I used the 2 1/4″ Circle Punch to punch out the area of the DSP that I wanted to use. I know it breaks up the monochromatic look I was going for a bit, but the paper is just so pretty.

The stamped images came from one of my favourite go to stamp sets; Beauty Abounds. (I’m so sad that this set is retiring) I debated about what image I wanted for this card. At first I thought of using the paint splatter image. But I ended up going with the flower and leaf image. This was a fun card to make! I really liked this sketch challenge with Butterfly Bijou. Here’s my card…

To check out all the cards for this week’s Paper Craft Crew Challenge, you should head over to their website. And if you want to check out one of my previous sketch challenges for the Paper Craft Crew, you can check that out here.