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Freshly Made Sketches#594

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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.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle

Just Add Ink #660

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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.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle