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Just Add Ink #727

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Ready for a new challenge at Just Add Ink? I am! This week our challenge is a sketch challenge:

I used this weeks sketch to create a festive card for my stash. I’ve inked up the Peaceful Evergreens Stamp Set and stamped the trees in Garden Green and Wild Wheat Inks. I love how Wild Wheat looks liike gold. Because of the goldish tones of the ink, I added a strip of DSP from the Season of Green and Gold Specialty Designer Series Paper pack.

To the cluster of trees, I added a reindeer that has been coloured with my blends. This reindeer is from the Reindeer Fun Stamp Set.

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Cheers

Narelle

Freshly Made Sketches #660

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Newest sketch at Freshly Made Sketches is here for you to play along with. This week Judy Rozema is our sketch hostess. Take a look at her fabulous creations on her blog by clicking here:

I coloured up some bird images from the Winterly Tree Tops Stamp Set and layered them over an oval diecut made with Country Woods DSP. I then stamped up some leaves from the Golden Greenery Stamp Set and fussy cut them out. I added some discarded diecuts leaves, made with the Golden Greenery Dies, just because I had them sitting there and they worked well with the colour combo I was going for.

The team have created wonderful cards that will inspire you, so make sure you head over to the challenge and see what they’ve created.

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Cheers

Narelle

Freshly Made Sketches #657

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You ready for a new sketch challenge at Freshly Made Sketches?

This week our sketch hostess is Karren Johnson – a neighbour of mine from across the water. Karren’s sketch is just fab and so easy to create a project with.

i put my Golden Greenery Bundle to work on this card. But it also features the pretty Season of Green and Gold Specialty Designer Series Paper.

The team have created awesome projects. Make sure you head over to Freshly Made Sketches and see what they’ve created.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle

Just Add Ink #721

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It’s Friday, so that means we have a new challenge for you to play along with over at Just Add Ink. This week our challenge is an inspiration picture challenge. I just love the colours in these pics.

I’ve combined a couple of stamp sets here – the Sentimental Wishes Stamp Set and the retired Notes of Nature Stamp Set. The Notes of Nature stamps gave me the typed background that were in some of the photos.

I then stamped the images from the Sentimental Wishes Stamp Set and lightly coloured them with a combination of my brown and ivory blends. Each of the images were fussy cut out and layered over the stamped background.

I then chose a piece of Nests of Winter DSP as it matched the neutral tones I was going for.

Make sure you head over to Just Add Ink and see what the team have created.

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Cheers

Narelle

Freshly Made Sketches #655

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It’s time for a new challenge at Freshly Made Sketches. Our sketch hostess for this weeks challenge is Jen Mitchell. I just love her sketch as much as I love her creations.

It’s definitely beginning to look like Christmas with this card. These tree images and sentiment are from Peaceful Evergreens Stamp Set. I love fussy cutting and felt they would look good fussy cut out and raised up with Dimensionals. I’ve stamped them in a combination of Basic Gray, Coastal Cabana and Smoky Slate. The background was given a winter-y feel by stamping the ink splatters/snow like stamp from the same stamp set. I then took a Blending Brush and Pool Party Ink and shaded the Basic White Cardstock. To tie it all together I took a piece of DSP from the Nests of Winter Designer Series Paper pack and added this to my card. Bling is a must, so I added some Adhesive Backed Sparkle Gems. Finally a sentiment was added, also from the Peaceful Evergreens Stamp Set.

The team have created gorgeous projects with this weeks sketch. Make sure you head over to Freshly Made Sketches and see what they’ve created.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle

Freshly Made Sketches #652

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It’s Wednesday, so that’s means we have a new challenge for you to play along with at Freshly Made Sketches. This weeks sketch hostess is the fabulously talented Linda Callahan.

Take a look at her fab sketch:

I received some new goodies recently. The products I’ve features on my card are from the Snowy Scenes Suite. I’ve used images from the Snow Wonder Stamp Set as well as images and papers from the Snow Scene Designer Series Paper.

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Narelle

Freshly Made Sketches #649

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This weeks challenge at Freshly Made Sketches has been designed by Amy O’Neill. Amy’s creations are always fantastic and full of fab colours.

When you’re time poor, you can’t go past Stampin’ Up!s fabulous designer series papers. I love that they have perfectly coloured images ready to be fussy cut out. This week I have chosen some new to me DSP called Nest of Winter DSP.

I fussy these images out and fussy cut some extra foliage to fill the space on my .card The DSP i”ve used under my images is also from the same pack.

Alli really had to do then was add a diecut and a sentiment. Oh and some shading to the background – coz i love me a bit of shading.

The team have created awesome inspiration for you all. Make sure you head over to Freshly Made Sketches and see what they’ve created. Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle

Just Add Ink #711

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Friday means a new challenge at Just Add Ink to play along with. This week our challenge for you is to :

Two Christmas cards in two days means I’m on a role!. Again I’ve used products from the Season of Green and Gold Suite. The papers are from the Season of Green and Gold DSP pack. I took the Golden Greenery Dies and diecut the leaves from the papers in this pack. They have been raised with dimensionals as I like height to my cards.

I created a tag that I scored on my paper trimmer and made creases. This has been tied on with gold trim. To add the red element to my card, I stamped up two bells from the Golden Greenery Stamp Set and fussy cut them out.

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Cheers

Narelle

Freshly Made Sketches #645

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Tis time for a new sketch challenge at Freslhly Made Sketches. This week our sketch hostess is our very crafty friend Jennifer Brum. I love everything about her card as much as her sketch.

I think this is my first festive card for this year. Thought it was about time to get started. I’ve used a combination of things from the Season of Green and Gold Suite – Season of Green and Gold DSP,, Golden Greenery Dies and Greetings of the Season Bundle. I’ve added texture by embossing the background cardstock with the Cane Weave 3D Embossing Folder.

The team at Freshly Made Sketches have created wonderful cards for you to be inspired by. Make sure you head over to Freshly Made Sketches and see what they’ve created.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle

Freshly Made Sketches #606

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It’s time for a new sketch challenge at Freshly Made Sketches. This week it’s my turn to design the sketch. Here’s the sketch I designed for you to play along with:

I received the Merriest Trees Bundle recently and decided this challenge was the one to give the products a run.

I stamped one of the trees from the Merriest Trees Stamp Set in Bubble Bath and Fresh Freesia Inks. The second tree was stamped in Pebbled Path Ink. Both of these trees were cut with the Merriest Tree Dies.

The sentiment from the stamp set was stamped and die cut out with a tree die for something different.

To a little bling to the tree, I took Gold Foil Carstock and cut rows of fights and adhered them to the pink tree.

I then stamped up a combination of the present images from the same stamp set and cut them out with the matching dies.

I took my new Abundant Beauty Decorative Masks, some Bubble Bath Ink and a Blending Brush and shaded the background to add a snowflaked background.

The team have created cards that make my sketch look awesome! Head over to Freshly Made Sketches and see what they’ve created.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle