Freshly Made Sketches #700!

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #700!

Freshly Made Sketches is celebrating a big milestone this week with the 700th challenge and 14 years of inspiration!!!! The sketch is a throwback to FMS14 and was designed by the challenge creator, Lesley Croghan. Although I stepped down from the Clean Team a few months ago, I am thrilled to be invited to play along with them this week!

The aqua and gray squares were die cut and adhered in their grid with washi tape to keep the edges clean as Tim Holtz Distress Snowfall Grit Paste was applied with a Taylored Expressions Breezy Stencil. While it dried to a translucent, frosty finish the Poppystamps Birthday Blowout sentiment was heated embossed in Liquid Platinum onto a oval piece of vellum.  

The the MFT Fab Foliage and Wild Greenery dies are attached along their spines to the gray tiles and then the sentiment oval slipped into place amongst the leaves.

For a little extra fun, Clean Team designers are posting the first card they created to play along with Freshly Made Sketches. For me, it was for FMS117 way back in December 2013!

My card is also being entered in Seize the Birthday #311 No Flowers challenge.

I hope you check out the amazing Clean Team designs at Freshly Made Sketches and play along with us this week!

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Freshly Made Sketches #686

 Freshly Made Sketches #686

Hi - it's been a while since I made a card, but I couldn't resist Clean Team Designer Kim Singdahlsen's fabulous sketch this week at Freshly Made Sketches!

My retired professional forester father probably gets too many cards with tree, forest and woodgrain elements, but they do always make me think of him.

For this Father's Day card, the Tim Holtz Sizzix Forest Shadow tree die is used to cut a set of green trees and then to cut a white stitched rectangle. The MFT sentiment is stamped on the bottom of the white panel first, then the trees embossed with a Sizzix 3D Leaf pattern and the layers assembled.

It feels great to be creating! Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Freshly Made Sketches #679!

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #679!

Clean Team designer Karren Johnson has given us a fabulous sketch this week! I had The Stamp Market Bitty Bunny die sitting on my desk and kept thinking the fishtail tip reminded me of the bunny ears. It took far too long for the lightbulb to go off and me to realize if I flipped the sketch, I could make a fun Easter card.

The flag became a bunny by adding an oval die cut body stamped with a PTI Simply Spring Borders sentiment to the head.  The big bunny is overseeing several of the Simply Spring bunnies hunting for Easter eggs on the gingham hillside. ETA Or maybe they are putting out the eggs for a children's hunt Easter morning.

I hope you check out the amazing Clean Team designs and play along with us at Freshly Made Sketches this week!

I have been so privileged to work with these creative and inspiring artists for several years, but I am stepping down to concentrate on a working my way through a big pile of abandoned craft projects along with a health challenge.

Thanks, as always, for stopping by,

Jacquie