We have a new sketch for you all to play along with over at Freshly Made Sketches. This week our sketch hostess is the wonderfully talented Amy O’Neill. Make sure you head over to her blog and see her stunning creations.
I’ve found the combo of Wild Wheat and Basic Black is quite striking, so I’ve used this for my card today.Suppose any colour with black comes across as striking.
I’ve used products from the Gorgeously Made Bundle. Really loving the background script stamp.You will probably see it feature on a lot of my cards.
Make sure you check out all the design team cards by heading over to Freshly Made Sketches.
Take a look at the fab challenge they have for us to play along with:
I haven’t used the Irresistible Blooms Stamp Set for a while, so it got a workout on my card today. I’ve been very drawn to blue lately as you might be able to tell…. I added some leaf diecuts cut with the Textured Floral Dies.The flowers and leaves were placed over a shaded and inked background. The background script stamp is from the Gorgeously Made Stamp Set.
This weeks sketch at Freshly Made Sketches has been designed by me! I create a sketch at the last minute always with no idea what I stamp set or colours I’m going to use, but in the end it usually comes together.
My stamp set of choice was the Perched in a Tree Stamp Set. I used this set mainly because it was sitting on my desk from a card I’d made on the same day as this one. All of my recent cards were made a few weeks ago before my latest round of hand surgery.
This stamp set features a pudgy little bird, ink splatters and a bare branch tree. I’ve used all of these images on my card. I kept my mostly black and white so that my yellow and grey bird pops.
The three leaf diecuts I’ve added to my card are from the Aspen Dies that coordinate with the stamp set. To tie in with the colour scheme, I heat embossed a sentiment on Basic Black Cardstock.
The team at Freshly Made Sketches have made my sketch look good with their gorgeous cards. Make sure you head over to Freshly Made Sketches and check out what they’ve created.
Loving this weeks sketch by Karren Johnson over at Freshly Made Sketches. I knew exactly which stamp set and colours I was going to use as soon as I saw it!
The stamp set that features on my card is a new-to-me one called – Gone Fishing Stamp Set. I’ve also paired it with the Gone Fishing Dies. The pieces of coral I have cut are from the Beauty of the Deep Dies. I like how these can work with my fish and sinker/floaty images.
Here’s my masculine fishy card:
The team at Freshly Made Sketches have created awesome cards. Make sure you head over to the challenge and see what they’ve created.
There’s a new challenge to play along with over at Just Add Ink. This week the challenge is to:
I’ve created a card with leaf inlays. The die set I’ve used for the leaves is called Aspen Dies. I used two of the dies to cut the die cuts out of my Basic White Cardstock. I then took a Blending Brushy and Balmy Blue Ink and added shading around the holes left from the dies. To add a little more interest to the cardstock, I flicked ink from a Dark Smoky Slate Blend over the shading.
I love a black and white DSP strip down the edge of cards. This DSP is from the Zoo Crew DSP pack. To this i added a thin strip of Crumb Cake Cardstock. Both of these were added to the decorated/diecut Cardstock. I then added dimensionals to this cardstock and adhered it to my card base. I then adhered the original leafy diecuts back in place but adhered them directly to the base card – while all the rest was raised.
I then sent about colouring this lil fatty bird with my Crumb Cake Blends. He is from the Perched in a Tree Stamp Set. The leaves I added behind him have been watercoloured on to Fluid 100 Watercolour Paper. I actually had these sitting from another project and instead of heaving them in the bin, I kept them for a project just like this one!
Make sure you head over to Just Add Ink and see what the team have created.
I’m a keeper of scraps and strips, so this challenge was easy for me. It’s a great challenge to use up all of those strips that I cut off my cardstock. I tore an edge off all of the strips and adhered them down in a pattern of Basic White Cardstock and Smoky Slate Cardstock.
I then added some flowers from the Textured Floral Stamp Set that were stamped in a combination of Pool Party Ink and Basic Gray Ink.
I then cut lots of leafy diecuts from the Textured Floral Dies and added them under the flowers. A sentiment was added as well as three sequins.
Kim’s sketch had me thinking baby card for some reason.The stamp set I’ve used for my card is called Little Dreamers. These little images are the cutest and ready for colouring. I’ve coloured the images with a combination of Smoky Slate and Gray Granite Blends. The star the lion is holding has been coloured with my Pool Party Blends.
The background Basic White Cardstock has been stamped with the stars stamp and Pool Party Ink. This gives a little interest to the background.
For the strips of cardstock, I have used Pool Party, Coastal Cabana and Pretty Peacock Cardstocks. The clouds have been cut out with the matching dies to the stamp set. These dies are called Little Dreamer Dies. The moon was also cut out with these dies.
The team have created awesome projects. Make sure you head over to Freshly Made Sketches and see what they’ve created.
I was able to play along with the latest colour challenge at Global Design Project today. This week their challenge colours are:
How pretty are they colours together?
My stamp set of choice was the Pansy Patch Stamp Set. My pansies have been stamped in a combination of all three colours for both the large and small pansies.
I added some die cuts that I had sitting on my desk from the Textured Floral Dies. I had them left over from other projects and I liked the Basic White Cardstock foliage behind the pansies.
The background was shaded with Azure Afternoon Ink, an Artistic Mix Decorative Mask and a Blending Brush.
There’s a new challenge over at Just Add Ink.This week is inspiration pic week. Take a look at the pic we have for you:
I was going to go with a sunset reflection type scene, but i couldn’t come up with anything that I liked, so I created a floral creation instead using the colours from the inspiration pic.
The pretty daisies I’ve used for my card are from the Cheerful Daisies Stamp Set. I’ve given them a quick colour with my blends.
The background was shaded and I then flicked ink over the shading.
Here’s my card:
Make sure you check out the wonderful cards the DT have created at Just Add Ink.
