Freshly Made Sketches #724

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It’s already Wednesday again so that means it’s times for a new sketch challenge at Freshly Made Sketches. This week our sketch hostess is my Canadian walker friend Jennifer Brum. Jen creates gorgeous cards that are just as awesome as her sketches!

I went florals. Mainly because the flower images kinda matched the circles on Jen’s sketch. Circles ,who by the way, Jen used to not love on sketches….The flowers I’ve stamped up and coloured in are from the Simply Beautiful Stamp Set. I let the flowers shine on the card and only gave the background a tad of background stamping and shading to the white cardstock. The stamping was created with a script stamp from the Element of Text Stamp Set. You can slightly see the script peaking on each side of the images.

Here’s the card that I created using her sketch:

The team at Freshly Made Sketches have created awesome inspiration for you. Make sure yo head over to the challenge and see what they’ve created.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle

Just Add Ink #779

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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 for you to start your cards off with:

I haven’t had a chance to play with the Fragrant Layers Stamp Set yet so I used this sketch challenge to use it for the first time. I coloured up the flowers with a combination of blends and watercolor pencils and fussy cut the images out. I then added some diecuts from the Natures Symphony Dies to add extra details to the card. The square piece of white cardstock in the background has been stamped with the Lasting Linen Stamp in Crump Cake. I love this stamp as is acts like DSP when you stamp it in a colour to match your colour scheme. I then added a Linen Thread bow and some Basic Rhinestones and a sentiment.

The team at Just Add Ink have created awesome inspiration for you. Make sure you head over to the challenge and see what the team have created for you.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle

Freshly Made Sketches #723

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The newest sketch challenge is here to play along with at Freshly made Sketches. This week our sketch hostess is the wonderfully talented Verena Shapiro. Take a look at her fab sketch:

The card I created features mostly diecuts from the Gears and Textures Dies from Stampin’ Up!. I added some background stamping from the matching Gears and Textures Stamp Set for that bit of grunginess to the card also as I like lots of details for my masculine cards.

The team have created awesome projects. Make sure you pop over to the challenge and see what they’ve created.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle

Freshly Made Sketches #722

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There’s a new sketch to play along with at Freshly Made Sketches. This week our sketch hostess is the wonderfully talented Kim Singdahlsen

Take a look at her fab sketch:

I needed a baby card so I used Kim’s sketch to created a sweet baby card using the retired Stampin’ Up! Fable Friends Stamp Set. Nothing say baby card like this stamp set I reckon!

The team have created wonderful inspiration for you, so make sure you head over to Freshly Made Sketches and see what the team have created.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle

Just Add Ink #778

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It’s Friday, so we have a new challenge for you to play along with at Just Add Ink. This week our challenge for you is to:

From this pic I chose to use both the theme from the inspiration pic and the colours from the colour combination provided. Because sometimes I just like to challenge myself.

The images I’ve stamped and coloured are from the Shell Collecting Stamp Set. I started with three shells and that felt a bit bare, so I kept adding them until I ended up with six of them on my card. To the cluster of shells, I added some coral. These have been cut with a retired die and trimmed the complete diecut to layer amongst the shells. To the background, I randomly stamped a starfish stamp in Crumb Cake Ink on the Crumb Cake Cardstock to act like of a kind of DSP.

The team have created awesome and varied projects using the inspo pic and colours. Make sure you head over to the challenge and see what they’ve created.

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheers

Narelle

Freshly Made Sketches #721

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There is a new sketch challenge for you to play along with at Freshly Made Sketches. This week our sketch hostess is the wonderfully talented Jen Mitchell.

The card i have created features blooms from the Simply Beautiful Stamp Set, because you know I have to have a flower stamp set that i can colour. I’ve used all of my yellow blends for these flowers and my Old Olive Blends for the leaves and fussy cut them all out. For a little extra detail, I die cut some leaves in Old Olive Cardstock witth the Natures Symphony Dies and added them to my card. I created a black and white faux DSP strip by cutting black and white strips of cardstock and adhered them on an offcut strip of cardstock and layered it on the card base. The card base was stamped with ones of the ink splatters stamp from the Gears and Textures Stamp Set. By adding these splatters, I think it softens the background a little with all that white space.

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

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle

Freshly Made Sketches #720

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Oops, forgot to post this on time for the current challenge at Freshly Made Sketches. My mind has been all over the place….

Take a look at the fab sketch Jen Timko created for you to play along with:

I created a quick and easy masculine card using diecuts from the Gears and Textures Dies. I also used the matching stamp to create some interest in the background.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle

Just Add Ink #777

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Welcome to the first challenge at Just Add Ink for 2026. Our challenge for you is to:

Our first challenge as always is a blog hop, so make sure you grab a cuppa and visit the design teams blogs and check out what we have designed for this challenge.

I chose a summery beachy theme for my birthday card. As soon as I saw the Shell Collecting Stamp Set from the Stampin’ Up! January-April 2026 Mini Catalogue I knew I had to get it as I love a shell stamp set. I kept a very neutral colour scheme and added some Irregular Weave Trim to the layers. I also added a piece of Country Woods DSP as it worked with the neutral theme I was going for. The coral die cuts I’ve added were created with the retired Ocean Friends Dies as the shells felt a bit bare without the coral.

The next blog to visit on our hop is the super talented Nikki Spencer. Click here or on the button below to take you to her blog:

If you get lost along the way or wish to start the hop again, you can click here to take you back to the Just Add Ink Challenge.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle

Freshly Made Sketches #719

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We have a new sketch for you to play along with at Freshly Made Sketches. This week our sketch hostess is the fabulously talented Judy Rozema.

I have stamped up the flowers and leaves from the Simply Beautiful Stamp Set and only coloured the leaves with my blends. For the flowers I only flicked ink onto the flowers and fussy cut them out. I took inspiration from the Lovely Blossoms DSP fas he flowers on the papers were left uncoloured and I liked this effect. The DSP I’ve used in the background is also from this pack.

The team have created awesome projects that will inspire you. Make sure you head over to the challenge and see what they’ve created.

Thanks

Narelle

Just Add Ink #776

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Welcome to the last challenge at Just Add Ink for 2025. This challenge is perfect for those who are wanting to finish off those last minute Christmas cards.

I had thought about including all of the elements of the challenge for my card, but I got too lazy and only ended up adding three of them – trees, stripes and twine.

I’ve added trees stamped from the Ornamental Christmas Stamp Set and paper from the matching Modern Christmas Designer Series Paper pack. I then added a double bow made with the Black and White and Gold Bakers Twine. This was tucked under the layers and adhered with a glue dot.

The team have created wonderful inspo for you, so make sure you head over to the challenge and see what they’ve created. We’d love for you to play along with us.

Wishing you all a safe festive season – see you again in 2026!

Thanks for stopping by

Cheers

Narelle