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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

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 #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 #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

Freshly Made Sketches #711

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We have a new challenge for you to play along with over at Freshly Made Sketches. This week is a sketch challenge designed by the wonderfully talented Kim Singdahlsen.

The Lovely Florals Stamp Set has been sitting uninked on my desk so I brought it out and gave it some love. I paired it with the bright and sunny Daffodil Delight Cardstock and a piece of Floral Delight Designer Series Paper.

To add some interest to the Basic White background, I took a stamp from the Elements of Text Stamp and randomly stamped it in Smoky Slate Ink and flicked some Dark Smoky Slate Blend also.

To add even more yellow I added some yellow ribbon that I had sitting as an offcut on my desk that I was glad to use this up instead of it going to waste.

The team have created a whole heap of awesome. So make sure you head over to Freshly Made Sketches and see what the team have created.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle

Freshly Made Sketches #707

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Welcome to the newest sketch challenge we have for you to play along with at Freshly Made Sketches. This week our sketch designer is the wonderfully talented Judy Rozema

I have flipped Judy’s sketch to fit the dino theme i created. I have come up with this card for a special great niece whose 3rd birthday is coming up as she is addicted to dinosaurs at the moment. I have coloured up images from the Darling Dinos Stamp Set from Stampin’ Up! and added some trees from a retired set that I can’t quite remember the name of atm… Hope she likes it as I had fun creating it for her.

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

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle

Freshly Made Sketches #706

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It’s time for the latest sketch challenge at Freshly Made Sketches. Take a look at the sketch we have for you to play along with.

I used my Notes and Totes Dies for this card as well the the palm tree dies from the Beach Day Dies because it fit with the beachy theme I was going for with the lotion, sunnies and shell diecuts.

Make sure you head over to Freshly Made Sketches and see what they team have creatd.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle

Freshly Made Sketches #701

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Welcome to the newest challenge at Freshly Made Sketches. This week our sketch hostess is Jen Brum. Gee I love her sketch as much as I love her!

I instantly thought of a line up of tools when i saw her sketch, so I brought out the Trusty Tools Stamp Set and gave the images some colour and fussy cut them out. I initially layered them to the Basic White Cardstock background and thought it looked a little bland, so I took out the Trusty Tools Dies and diecut the background with the tool plate type die and added some holes to the cardstock. I then flicked some ink over the cardstock as well to dirty it up. From the dies, I then diecut some screws and added them to the mix. Some retired thread was added, just because I could – details are always hard to add for masculine cards.

The team have created wonderful cards for this challenge. Make sure you head over to the challenge and see what they’ve created.

thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle

Freshly Made Sketches #700

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Welcome to our 700th sketch challenge at Freshly Made Sketches!!!!!!! How exciting is that? I played along with the very first challenge at Freshly Made Sketches and I was lucky enough to be chosen to be on the design team from the 76th challenge. Unfortunately my blog when awol for that time, so I can’t find my original post to link to…. But here is a photo of that card I made for my first DT assignment – which btw, I am not loving in 2025… Do you all look back and cards from years ago and say “yeah, nah – I’m not a fan of it anymore?”

The Design Team have decided to re-create cards for this weeks challenge from the very first sketech challenge at FMS. Take a look at the sketch and the card I created for it below.

The Charming Day Stamp Set and Dies got a work out for this card with the background Elements of Text and Corrugated 3D Embossing Folder.

The design team have created wonderful cards for this weeks challenge. We hope you can join us in our 700th sketch challenge!

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle

Freshly Made Sketches #699

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It’s time for the 699th challenge at Freshly Made Sketches. That’s alot of sketch challenges! Make sure you come back next week for our big 700th sketch! For this weeks challenge our designer is one fabulous card maker – Verena Shapiro. Take a look at her sketch:

I combined Pool Party and Pecan Pie for this card, plus a piece of stripey Smoky Slate DSP in the background,

For the circle component, I fussy cut some organic circles and stamped the Basic White Cardstock with a script stamp from Elements of Text Stamp Set. The gorgeous flowers and leaves images are from the Charming Day Stamp Set. I added colour to the leaves and flowers with Crumb Cake and Pool Party Blends. I then cut some Pecan Pie Cardstock leafy diecuts made with the Charming Day Dies.

I love what the team have created with this weeks sketch. Make sure you head over to the challenge and see what they design team have created.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle