Freshly Made Sketches #605

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There’s a new sketch for you to play along with at Freshly Made Sketches. This week our sketch has been designed by Karren Johnson. Karren has a designed a fab sketch as well as a gorgeous creation to inspire you.

The card I created features images from the Seaside Bay Stamp Set. The grassy stems are from the Rhino Ready Stamp Set. I added shell die cuts from the Seaside Bay Dies. I added textured and a watercoloured background.

The team have created awesome projects with this weeks sketch. Make sure you head over to the challenge and see what they’ve created.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle

Just Add Ink #668

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This weeks challenge at Just Add Ink is to create a project using the following:

I’m on a masculine card roll at the moment. Although this could be a feminine card too i think. I watercolored some Fluid 100 Watercolour Paper with Crumb Cake Ink. I then tore it in to strips and layered them across my card. I then coloured the shells, from the Seaside Bay Stamp Set. I then stamped some leafy stem images from the Beauty of the Deep Stamp Set and fussy cut them out. To add more detail, I cut some coral from the matching Beauty of the Deep Dies and added them to my card. The coral has been cut with Wild Wheat Cardstock, one of my favourite colours atm. I love adding Linen Thread to my oceanic card – not sure if you’ve noticed this….? It feels like I use it all the time, but it just works.

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

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

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.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle

Freshly Made Sketches #569

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Our newest sketch at Freshly Made Sketches has been designed by the fabulous Jacquie Southas. Make sure you head over to her blog and see the gorgeous creations she designs.

I decided to create another scenic background using the pencil to watercolour technique. After applying colour, I took an Aqua Painter and moved around the ink. I then tore strips and adhered them in layers on my card.

I’ve combined images from two different stamp sets. The lighthouse images is from the Lighthouse Point Stamp Set. The little birds are from the Seaside Bay Stamp Set. To create the shells, I watercoloured some Crumb Cake Ink on to the watercolour paper and waited for it to dry. I then took the small shell die from the Seaside Dies and cut out two shells. To add definition to the shell, I took my brown watercolour pencil and drew lines in the crease lines left by the die.

The grassy stems were also created by applying a green watercolour pencil on watercolour paper and used my Aqua Painter to move the colour around. After the paper was dry, I took the grassy die from the Seaside Dies and cut out three stems.

All of my images were then layered together and a sentiment was added.

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

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Narelle