Freshly Made Sketches #589

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It’s Wednesday, so that means a new sketch challenge to play along with at Freshly Made Sketches. This week our sketch has been designed by Linda Callahan. Linda’s card are always perfect with the best images and matching sentiments. Even though I had Linda’s sketch in front of me, I kinda stuck the middle strip under the circle – but I figure it was close enough – and hope she forgives me….

The stamp set I’ve decorated my card with is called Beauty of the Deep Stamp Set. I’ve also used die cuts from the matching Beauty of the Deep Dies. I created a sort of port hole by using circle dies and small dots cut with one of my expired tag punches. This little circle is the hole that was cut out of the top of the tag. I added this blue strip of DSP from the Countryside Inn DSP pack because it felt a bit nautical to me with the stripes.

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

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Cheers

Narelle

Global Design Project #396

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This weeks challenge at Global Design Project is a CASE The Designer Challenge.The challenge they have given us in to CASE Krista’s gorgeous card – take a look at her card:

I’ve had the Little Dreamers Stamp Set sitting unlinked for a couple of weeks. The matching dies were also sitting unused so I rectified this today with a CASE of Krista’s card. The clouds and moon dies in the Little Dreamers Dies were the starting point to my card as they were similar to her card.

The little elephant was stamped in Black Memento Ink and coloured with my Gray Granite Blends. It was then cut it out with the matching die.

The Basic Gray circle die cut has been given a little bit of interest with the 3 star stamp from the Little Dreamers Stamp Set.

Once I started layered, I felt my card needed a little more detail -because why not really? After searching through my stash, I found this tree die from the Rhino Ready Dies. This tree die was cut with Smoky Slate and Pretty Peacock Cardstocks.

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Narelle

Freshly Made Sketches #588

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Welcome to the newest sketch challenge at Freshly Made Sketches. This week our sketch has been designed by the super talented Jen Mitchell.

Take a look at her cool sketch.

I’ve gone with a birthday card with balloons and big birthday sentiment.

I started this card by choosing the Gold Celebrations Speciality Designer Series Paper and cut it on the diagonal to fit across the card. The gold on this vellum like paper had me reaching for Wild Wheat and Pebbled Path Inks for my balloons. These balloons have been stamped from the Beautiful Balloons Stamp Set.

The sentiment was stamped in Pebbled Path Ink. The sentiment is from the Biggest Wish Stamp Set.I love the size of these sentiments in this stamp set and I also love that they are a mix of solid and script fonts.

The team at Freshly Made Sketches have created awesome cards. Head over to the challenge and see what they have created.

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Cheers

Narelle

Freshly Made Sketches #587

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Welcome to another Wednesday and another new sketch challenge at Freshly Made Sketches. This week our sketch has been brought to us by Jennifer Timko. Jen is an amazing crafter who always makes me say wow!

Here’s her fab sketch:

I reached for my new Colour & Contour Stamp Set that had yet to see ink for this card. I took my colour inspiration from my new Countryside Inn DSP. I kept everything blue from my flowers to the masked background.

The team have created wonderful projects that you will want to check out. Make sure you head over to Freshly Made Sketches and see what they’ve created.

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Narelle

Freshly Made Sketches #586

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We have a new sketch challlenge over at Freshly Made Sketches. This week our sketch has been design by the wonderfully talented Jacquie Southas.

I recently got the Zoo Crew DSP pack. I love the cute little images on all of the papers, so I decided to use two of them on my card. I fussy cut these images out and added them to my card. This DSP is perfect to add straight to your card as they are already coloured and cute as can be.The strip of DSP that was added to my card is also from the Zoo Crew DSP and the little balloons I’ve added have been cut with the Zany Zoo Dies.

The sentiment I’ve added to my card is from the Biggest Wish Stamp Set. I love the size of the sentiments in this stamp set and I know I will use them quite a bit.

Here’s the card I created:

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

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Cheers

Narelle

Just Add Ink #652

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There’s a new challenge to play along with at Just Add Ink. This week is a sketch challenge. Take a look at the sketch we have for you to play with:

For this card I reached for an oldie, but a goodie stamp set called Artistically Inked. This stamp set has matching dies called Artistic Dies.

I created an ombre panel of cardstock to layer my flowers on. I then layered this over the card base which has been given detail with my Artistic Mix Decorative Masks and ink splatters.

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Narelle

Freshly Made Sketches #585

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Love Wednesday’s as that means a new challenge at Freshly Made Sketches. This week our sketch has been designed by the wonderfully talented Judy Rozema. Take a look at her cool sketch:

For some reason the strips in the sketch had me wanting to use the Seaside Bay Stamp Set and matching Seaside Bay Dies.

I started by stamping a couple of birds from the Seaside Bay Stamp Set and coloured them with my Boho Blue Blends and Light Night of Navy Blends. I then stamped the oyster shell image and lightly coloured it with the Ivory Blend. I then took the Color Lifter and removed quite a bit of the ink.

I then took some Crumb Cake Cardstock and the oyster shell die to cut the shell. I then took a Blending Brush and Crumb Cake Ink and added touches of ink to the edges of the die cut. I took the small shell die and Basic White Cardstock and cut out the shell. I also added touches of Crumb Cake Ink to the edges of this shell.

There are leafy dies in the Seaside Bay Dies, but they are a little smaller than what I wanted for my card, so I took my scissors and created my own.

Once all my fancy fits were done, I layered them all on strips of Boho Blue Cardstock. I took some Linen Thread that I twisted and added to my layers. It felt a bit clean, so I covered up my images with paper, took my Light Night of Navy Blend and flicked ink splatters over the cardstock.

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

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Cheers

Narelle

Freshly Made Sketches #584

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It’s new sketch challenge time at Freshly Made Sketches. This week our sketch hostess is the wonderfully talented Linda Callahan.

A new catalogue means I have so many choices for sets to use on my cards. The stamp set I’ve inked up for the first time for this card is called the Cheerful Daisies Stamp Set. This set has two stamps for each daisy – one for the outline and one can be inked up to colour the flower. Instead of using the second stamp, I coloured my daisies with my Daffodil Delight Blends. For the centre of the flowers, I took my Light Smoky Slate Blend and added shadows to create depth.

The leaves are also from the Cheerful Daisies Stamp Set. They have been stamped with Garden Green Ink. I stamped the leaf on to Basic White Cardstock and then stamped the leaf again without inking up the stamp. This gave me a lighter shade of green for some of the leaves. All images were fussy cut out.

The team have created awesome cards. Make sure you head over to Freshly Made Sketches to see what they have created.

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Cheers

Narelle

Just Add Ink #650

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

For this challenge I searched for the biggest sentiment I have in my craft room. The dies I’ve used are called the Love For You Dies. I’ve paired them with flowers and leaves from the Cottage Rose Stamp Set. The pretty DSP I’ve added to my card is from the Abigail Rose DSP pack.

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

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Cheers

Narelle

Freshly Made Sketches #583

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It’s my turn to be sketch hostess at Freshly Made Sketches this week. As always I’ve left my sketch until the last minute and have come up with the following rushed sketch:

It’s been a while since I made a baby card, so I used this weeks sketch to create one with the Elephant Parade Stamp Set. I love these lil cutie images from the stamp set! I’ve paired them with the Brilliant Rainbow Dies and added balloons for a bit of fun.

Make sure you head over to Freshly Made Sketches and see what the team have created.

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Cheers

Narelle