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Freshly Made Sketches #546

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

Once upon a time, I hoarded my designer series paper as I didn’t want to waste it. With all the gorgeous images Stampin’ Up! have printed on their papers, I don’t hesitate to fussy cut them or die cut them to add to my cards.

The flowers and leaves I’ve used on my card are from the Wonderful World Designer Series Paper pack. You can get this DSP free as part of the Wonderful World Bundle by spending $180 AU during Sale-A-Bration. The DSP circles I’ve added to the background is also from this pack.

To add a little bit of ribbon interest, I took some Natural Ribbon Trim and cut it down the centre. I then folded it back on itself and stapled one end to the Basic White Cardstock. The other end is tied with a Linen Thread bow.

The sentiment I’ve added to my card is from the Season of Chic Stamp Set. I chose this sentiment as it fit the best with my layout.

The Clean Team have created awesome projects for you to look at, make sure you head over to the challenge and check them out.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle

Freshly Made Sketches #545

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Are you ready for a new sketch challenge at Freshly Made Sketches? I am, because it’s my turn to be sketch hostess! I’ve created the following sketch for you as the starting point to your creations.

As usual when I design a sketch I have absolutely no idea what I’m going to create. After playing around with the Jingle Jingle Jingle Stamp Set for about an hour, I gave up on it and went with these cute-as hippos from the Hippest Hippos Stamp Set. The even come with matching dies, called Hippos Dies, and can be yours during Sale-A-Bration when you spend $180 (AU)!

The first hippo has been coloured with the Pale Papaya Blends and the tummy and snout lightly watercoloured with Smoky Slate Ink. The second hippo has been coloured with my Smoky Slate Blends, Polished Pink Blends and watercoloured tummy and snout. The third hippo has been coloured with the Pool Party Blends and watercoloured tummy and snout.

The boat, waves, grass and flowers were all die cut with dies from the Hippo Dies. There are so many cool dies in this set that you can use – they seriously are incredibly versatile and cute as can be!

The designer series paper in the background was added because it pairs with the pink in the tutu of the hippo. This DSP is from the Wonderful World Designer Series Paper Pack. This pack is part of the Wonderful World Bundle (comprising of DSP & Wonderful World Stamp Set)- also available during Sale-A-Bration when you spend $180 (AU).

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

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle

Freshly Made Sketches #540

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We have a new sketch for you to play along with at Freshly Made Sketches. This weeks sketch has been designed by the wonderfully creative Jen Mitchell. Make sure you pop over to her blog and check out her creations.

The card I’ve created features the Wild & Sweet Stamp Set from Stampin’ Up!. The koala has been lightly coloured with my Smoky Slate Blends.

After I placed my koala on the card, I realised it was lacking in details, so I added some trees from the retired Rooted In Nature Stamp Set. These trees have been created by using the marker directly to the stamp technique. Before stamping I huffed on the stamp to add moisture and applied the image to cardstock. Once I repeated this process, I fussy cut the trees and placed them on my card.

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

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle

Freshly Made Sketches #537

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Welcome to my blog and another sketch challenge to play along with at Freshly Made Sketches. This week our sketch has been designed by Judy Rozema

The banner on Judy’s sketch had me thinking nautical. Which had me reaching for my Friends Are Like Seashells Stamp Set. The DSP banner I’ve added to my card is from the Sun Prints Designer Series Paper pack. I cut this piece on my paper trimmer roughly measured to look like the sketch. The colours for the shells was then taken from the DSP.

The large shell was coloured with Smoky Slate and Balmy Blue Blends. The medium sized shell was coloured with Crumb Cake and Soft Suede Blends and the small round shell with the Balmy Blue Blends. All three were then given glitter with the Wink of Stella Glitter Pen.

Once all of the shells were coloured, I added a strip of Night of Navy Cardstock and a sentiment from the Friends Are Like Seashells Stamp Set. To finish off my card, I added some Linen Thread and three Iridescent Basic Pearls.

The team have created awesome cards. Make sure you pop over to Freshly Made Sketches and see what they’ve created.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle

Freshly Made Sketches #534

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Welcome to Wednesday and a new sketch challenge at Freshly Made Sketches. This week our sketch has been designed by the wonderfully creative Cecile Ribon.

I adore all of Cecile’s sketches. They’re always super creative and really get me thinking. The Mountain Air Stamp Set came to mind when I saw her sketch, I’ve created a mountain scene and layered some fussy cut trees with a sentiment.

Some fussy cut clouds, also from the Mountain Air Stamp Set, were added just because I could. Both clouds were raised with dimensional and surrounded by stamped bird images.

To make my scene pop, I matted the cardstock with Basic Gray Cardstock and layered it on a Smoky Slate card base.

The girls at Freshly Made Sketches have created awesome cards. Make sure you pop over to the challenge and see what they’ve created.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle

Freshly Made Sketches #529

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It’s time for a new sketch challenge at Freshly Made Sketches. This week our sketch has been designed by the wonderfully talented Jennifer Timko. Take a look at her fab sketch:

I can’t tell you how much I love the Friends Are Like Seashells Stamp Set. You probably know how much with how many times I’ve used it!

The shells I’ve added to my card have been lightly coloured with the Pool Party, Bermuda Bay and Crumb Cake Blends. The leafy vines have been stamped in Bermuda Bay Ink and fussy cut out.

The cardstock colours I’ve used are Pool Party and Crumb Cake. I love these combo of colours for oceanic card. I took some Crumb Cake Twine and tied a knot and adhered over the Crumb Cake Cardstock strips of card i layered to the Whisper White Cardstock. I’ve torn some Crumb Cake Cardstock and added to each side of a Whisper White Cardstock panel that was shaded some with Pool Party Ink and a Blending Brush.

We would love it if you could play along. Head over to Freshly Made Sketches and take a look at the wonderful inspiration our design team have created for you.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle

Freshly Made Sketches #516

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We have a new challenge over at Freshly Made Sketches for you to play along with. This week is our last challenge before Christmas, so the perfect opportunity for you to get those last minute cards designed and sent out. This week it’s my turn to design the sketch – here’s the sketch I created for the challenge:

I recently purchased the Brilliant Rainbow Dies. These dies will be available in January-June 2022 Mini Catalogue. I created the rainbow with Vellum Cardstock. The clouds, also from the Brilliant Rainbow Dies, have been strategically placed to hide the Glue Dots I stuck the vellum down with.

The lighthouse, from the Sailing Home Stamp Set also hides the Glue Dots. The lighthouse has been coloured with my Cherry Cobbler Blends and quite a bit of Colour Lifter usage as well.

The Basic White Cardstock circle has been embossed with the Hive 3D Embossing Folder – another goodie available from the new Mini Catalogue.

I had almost adhered everything down when I decided to lift it all and add some Pool Party Ink to the background with the Blending Brush – just to give it some colour.

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

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle

Freshly Made Sketches #513

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Welcome to my blog and another sketch challenge at Freshly Made Sketches. This week our sketch designer is our uber talented cardmaker and mountain walker Jen Brum!

It’s been a few weeks since I’ve inked up the Friends Are Like Seashells Stamp Set. You all know how much I love it, but I’ve been playing with new products and also completing some Christmas cards.

My shells have been coloured with a combination of Bermuda Bay and Rich Razzleberry Blends. I then chose my DSP and cardstock to match these colours.

The background was given Pool Party Ink with the Blending Brush and then stamped with the ink splatters stamp from the Friends Are Like Seashells Stamp Set.

Here’s my card:

The team 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

Freshly Made Sketches #512

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There’s a new sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches for you to play along with. This week our sketch has been designed by the super talented Kim Singdahlsen.

The inspiration and starting point for this card came from the tree that Kim added to the sketch. Straight away I decided the tree die cut made with the Majestic Mountain Dies would work well. Initially I was thinking that I would make a Christmas card but decided to change it up and go with a baby card instead.

I haven’t made a baby card in ages, so I took out the Count On Me Stamp Set and coloured up this very cute bear image with Crumb Cake Blends. My Color Lifter got a real workout so that my bear ended up with a watercoloured look. The heart was coloured with the Bermuda Bay Blends. Again the heart got a workout with the Color Lifter.

Looking for DSP with matching tones to my tree and heart, I found these pieces of DSP from the Penguin Playmates DSP pack. This DSP was available for a short time during Sale-A-Bration, but is now retired. I matted both pieces with Soft Succulent Cardstock.

I added a White Crinkled Seam Binding ow and three Elegant Faceted Gems to the Basic White Cardstock. I also added some Sahara Sand Ink shading to the background with the Blending Brush.

The team at Freshly Made Sketches have created wonderful cards with this weeks sketch. Make sure you head over to Freshly Made Sketches and see what they’ve created.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle

Freshly Made Sketches #511

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There’s a new sketch to play along with at Freshly Made Sketches. This week our sketch has been designed by the wonderfully talented Linda Callahan.

Take a look a her fabulous sketch:

I had these pinecones already stamped laying on my desk. Love using up discarded images from other projects. However, using up these two pinecones, didn’t make a dent in the amount of stuff that is waiting to be used up! These leaf and pinecone images are from the Christmas Season Stamp Set. The pinecones are stamped in Soft Suede and Sahara Sand Inks. The leaves have been stamped in Evening Evergreen Ink.

The texture that I’ve given my Sahara Sand Cardstock is from the Painted Texture 3D Embossing Folder. I wanted a detailed background beneath the images. I created this by taking my Light Pale Papaya Blend and added colour to the cardstock. I then decided I wanted some matching ribbon. I didn’t have one on hand, so I took the same blend and White Crinkled Seam Binding and gave it colour.

To tie in more of the Pale Papaya, I added a torn offcut of Pale Papaya Cardstock under the sentiment. I then added three Basic Rhinestones for the bling I wanted for my Christmas card.

Here’s my card

The girls at Freshly Made Sketches have created wonderful cards using this sketch. Make sure you head over to the challenge and see what they’ve created.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle