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Freshly Made Sketches #582

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Hey Everyone

It’s Wednesday, so that means there’s a new sketch to play along with at Freshly Made Sketches. Our sketch designer this week is Karren Johnson. Karren is the Queen of backgrounds and never seems to use the same stamp set twice – her whole house must be full of them!

Take a look at her awesome sketch:

I wanted to ink up the Nested Friends Stamp Set another time before it retires. I used the marker direct to stamp technique for the nest image. I applied Evening Evergreen and Early Espresso ink to the stamp, huffed on it with my breath and stamped it on Basic White Cardstock. I did the same with the branches and then fussy cut all images out.

The birds were stamped in Black Memento Ink and coloured quite quickly with Pool Party and Soft Suede Blends. These little cuties were also fussy cut out.

The circle of DSP I’ve added is from the Abigail Rose DSP pack. I am really going to miss this DSP! I added a sentiment from the Nested Friends Stamp Set and matted it with a torn piece of Coastal Cabana Cardstock.

I was actually going to leave the background all white, but decided it was a little too stark, so I added flicks of my dark Basic Gray Blend and then Pearls to finish it off.

The team have created wonderful cards using Karren’s sketch. Make sure you head over to Freshly Made Sketches and see what they’ve created.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle

Nested Friends Card

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I had a busy weekend and only managed a smidge of time in my craft room today. I received my preorder from the Stampin’ Up! January – April 2023 Mini Catalogue and the Nested Friends Stamp Set was the first to receive ink.

I was drawn to this stamp set because of the artwork in the images. The birds and branch are great for colouring. I watercoloured these images and fussy cut them out. The choice of colour for the birds was chosen after I’d picked the DSP I added. The Coastal Cabana piece of DSP is from the Sale-A-Bration Catalogue – available to customers to order from 5th January. This pack of DSP is called Dandy Designs. This pack can be yours when you spend $180 or more during Sale-A-Bration time. The ledger type DSP I’ve also added is from the Abigail Rose DSP pack. I also added a circle diecut of Kraft Cardstock to my layers and added torn Kraft Cardstock edges to the ledger DSP.

Here’s what I created:

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle