Hello and welcome to my first post as a design team member for Make the Cards Challenge! Today we are starting with our very first challenge, and will be posting a new challenge every Monday.

For challenge #1 we have a sketch challenge, and the link up for it will be open until Saturday (1/30). Each week we will choose a winner who will be asked to be the featured creator for the following week’s challenge.

The image I used is from a background stamp made by Stampendous. I colored just one part of it with Copic markers, then die cut the image with a scalloped square. A little trick that gives an image like this the look of dimension is to color a soft gray around it, that works to “push” the background down, while making the petals appear to be raised.

Please check out all the details for this new challenge and see the wonderful inspiration that the rest of the design team has made. You can visit by clicking here or on the image below!