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Freshly Made Sketches #561

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It’s time for a new sketch challenge over at Freshly Made Sketches. This week our sketch has been designed by our wonderfully creative team member, Linda Callahan!

Take a look at her fab sketch:

The card I created features striped DSP from the Perfectly Penciled DSP pack. I always love a black and white striped DSP. Any colour that you add to it just pops!

The images I’ve added to my are from the Splendid Thoughts Stamp Set. The leaves have been coloured with my Smoky Slate Blends. The leafy stems have been coloured with the Highland Heather Blends. I always take a Color Lifter to take away some of the colour to create a lighter shade as I get more definition between the light and dark blends. All images were fussy cut out and layered over rectangles of Basic White Cardstock shaded with the Light Pool Party Blend.

Three Matte Dots were added in an off centre triangle. The sentiment diecut I have used was cut with the Sending Dies and I’ve heat embossed a sentiment from the matching Sending Smiles Stamp Set on Basic Black Cardstock.

The team at Freshly Made Sketches have created awesome projects that will no doubt inspire you. Head over to the challenge and see what they’ve created.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle

Just Add Ink #627

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It’s time for a new challenge at Just Add Ink. This week our challenge for you is to:

I chose night and silhouette for my card.

To create the background of my card I took a Blending Brush and the following ink colours:

  • – Tahitian Tide
  • Orchid Oasis
  • Starry Sky

After my background was blended, I took the White Craft Stampin’ Ink Refill bottle and added some ink to a block. I then took my Water Painter and flicked some ink onto the blended background. This created a starry background on the night scene.

The lighthouse I added to the card was cut with the Lighthouse Dies. The clouds were then cut from clouds dies in the Lighthouse Dies set. To create a more realistic scene, I added some trees cut with the Majestic Mountain Dies. Each of trees were daubed around the edges with Basic Gray Ink.

Some Linen Thread and a sentiment finished off the card.

The team at Just Add Ink have created awesome cards. Make sure you head over to the challenge and see what they’ve created.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle

Freshly Made Sketches #559

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It’s time for a new sketch challenge over at Freshly Made Sketches. This week our sketch hostess is the wonderfully creative Jennifer Timko. Make sure you head over to her blog and see all the gorgeousness she creates.

The card I created features a retired Stampin’ Up! stamp set that I will never part with. It’s called Dressed To Impress. I adore all of the images in this set. I coloured up the perfume bottle, lipstick and flowers with a combination of blends and fussy cut them out.

The background cardstock has been embossed with the Timeworn Type 3D Embossing Folder and layered over a piece of Basic Cardstock. These layers have been adhered to a Pool Party card base.

A circle die cut, cut with the Stylish Shapes Dies, was added and all of my images and Silver Foil leaves were adhered down once I was happy with the placement of them.

The Freshly Made Sketches team have created awesome cards with the sketch. Head over to the challenge to see what they’ve created.

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Cheers

Narelle

Global Design Project #364

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I had a play in my craft room this afternoon and created a card to play along with the latest challenge at Global Design Project Challenge.

Their challenge this week is a CASE challenge. They’ve given us the challenge to cASE the following gorge card from Madeleine Mrotzek.

I absolutely adore her card! For my take on her card, I combined images and dies from the Sending Smiles Bundle. I’ve inked up flowers in the rainbow of colours and cut them out. I then inked up the stems and fussy cut them out also.

The diecut sentiment was already cut out and sitting on my desk. However, I lost the dot so instead of cutting up another one, I added a matt dot to add to the “I”. I chose a stamped sentiment that combines perfectly with the diecut and adhered them down.

To finish off my card, I added three Brushed Brass Butterflies to dance amongst the flowers.

Here’s my card:

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Cheers

Narelle

Just Add Ink #625

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There’s a new challenge for you to play along with over at Just Add Ink. This week our challenge for you is to:

How pretty is this inspiration pic?

Stampin’ Up! have given me the perfect DSP to colour and fussy cut out for this challenge. This DSP is from a pack called Abigail Rose. The ledger print DSP is also from this pack. I roughed up the edges of this DSP as well as added Crumb Cake Ink around the edges to give it a worn look. The Basic White Cardstock piece behind the DSP has been embossed with the Timeworn Type 3D Embossing Folder and also given the worn and torn edges.

Under the flower images, I added diecuts that I had sitting on my desk and a bow made with the Gold and Satin Edged Ribbon. My favourite sentiment from the Cottage Rose Stamp Set was added to finish off the card.

The team have created awesome cards for this challenge, so make sure you head over to the challenge and see what they’ve created.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle

Freshly Made Sketches #557

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It’s time for a new sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches. This week our sketch hostess is the wonderfully talented Judy Rozema.

The card I created features leaf-y mages from the Splendid Thoughts Stamp Set. Each of the leaves have been coloured with the Parakeet Party Blends. After I was happy with the shading, I then fussy cut each of them out.

I then shaded the background Basic White Cardstock with Parakeet Party Ink and a Blending Brush. On this shaded background, I added a strip of black and white striped DSP. This DSP is from the Perfectly Penciled DSP pack.

After I stuck this DSP down, I felt my card needed something, so I coloured up some White Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon with a Parakeet Party Blend and added a bow across the card. I then cut up a Basic Black Cardstock pot from the Splendid Stems Dies and arranged my leaves until I was happy with them.

I fussy cut a sentiment out and raised it up with Dimensionals amongst the leaves and added three Black Matt Dots to the card. Basic Black Cardstock adhered between the Basic White Cardstock and the Parakeet Party card base make this combo a new fav of mine.

The team over at Freshly Made Sketches have created awesome cards that will no doubt inspire you. Head over to the challenge and see what they’ve created.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle

Just Add Ink #623

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It’s Friday so that means a new challenge to play along with over at Just Add Ink. This week is a colour challenge week. Take a look at the colours we have for you:

I combined these colours to create a Christmas card using two stamp sets – Jingle, Jingle, Jingle and Trees for Sale Stamp Set.

The torn notebook edged cardstock was created using a die from the Blossoming Happiness Dies. I love a torn and worn edge to give my cards texture.

The team have created awesome cards with this weeks challenge colours. Head over to the challenge and see what they’ve created.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle

Freshly Made Sketches #555

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There’s a new sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches to play along with. This weeks sketch designer is me! I’ve come up with the following sketch for you all.

My initial sketch pretty much had a shape in every corner, but I tamed it and left only two shapes. My card however, is filled with details.

I love the dramatic-ness of black, white and yellow together. My card was designed around the diecut sentiment. This die is from the Sending Dies. You can purchase the dies separately or as part of the Sending Smiles Bundle.

The flowers I’ve coloured up are from the Happiness Abound Stamp Set. Each of the flowers have been coloured with a combination of every yellow blend that I own and fussy cut out. The leaves that I have tucked under each of the blooms has been fussy cut from the Perfectly Penciled DSP.

The yellow DSP I’ve layered over the Basic Black Cardstock is from the Hues of Happiness DSP. The circle diecut notebook type paper is from the Abigail Rose DSP. I really have given my card a mix of DSPs, images and sentiments!

Hope you get a chance to play along with the sketch. Make sure you head over to Freshly Made Sketches and see what they team have created.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle

Global Design Project Challenge #360 & TGIF Challenge #386

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I’ve created a card today that I’m entering in to two challenges – the CASE challenge at Global Design Project and the theme challenge at TGIF. Here are their challenge pics:

The card I created features an oldie but a goodie stamp set – Free As a Bird. Love this stamp set and the cute little bird images. The birds have been coloured with the following blends – Pool Party and Crumb Cake. The flowers were given a light colour with my Highland Heather Blends. The leaves have beens haded with the Mint Macaron Blends.

The background cardstock was shaded with with a Blending Brush, an Artistic Mix Decorative Mask and Pool Party Ink. I also took the Light Bermuda Bay Blend and flicked the nib against the lid to add some ink splatters.

The big leaf I added is from the Leaf Label and Amber Gem Combo pack. The leaf has been embossed with the Timeworn Type 3D Embossing Folder. I then took a dauber and Crumb Cake Ink and daubed around the edges of the leaf. I roughed up the leaf and added it beneath my birds.

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Narelle

Just Add Ink #621

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We have a new challenge for you to play along with at Just Add Ink. This week our challenge is a sketch challenge. Here’s our sketch:

I saw the sketch and instantly thought of hippos! The hippos I’ve used are from the Hippest Hippos Stamp Set. I’ve coloured them with a variety of colours – Pool Party, Pale Papaya and Highland Heather Blends. Each hippo is layered over a circle punch in the same colour they were coloured with.

The circles sit on a Basic White Cardstock base that has been shaded with Pool Party Ink over an Artistic Mix Decorative Mask.

Once I adhered everything down, I felt the card needed a little something extra, so I stamped some leaves and flowers from the Cottage Rose Stamp Set. The leaves were coloured with my Pool Party Blends and the flowers with a combination of Flirty Flamingo and So Saffron Blends. Each of these leaves and flowers were fussy cut out and placed around the hippos.

Three Basic Rhinestone Jewels were added for that bit of bling I like.

The team have created awesome cards with this weeks sketch. Make sure you head over to Just Add Ink and see what they’ve created.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle