Freshly Made Sketches #613

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #613!

Clean Team designer Kim Singdahlsen's fabulous sketch was a perfect opportunity to use a couple items picked up on a recent shopping trip with a couple crafty friends. I so miss the days of having several scrapbook and stamping stores within an easy drive and took full advantage of opportunity to see, touch and smell so many favorite products in real life before buying.

An older Poppystamps Holiday Mistletoe die, tied with sheer ribbon and finished with pearl berries, sits so prettily on the new Spellbinders Tufted 3D embossed panel. When I see a simple strip in a sketch, I poke through the patterned paper and washi stash. The new Teresa Collins washi was the perfect size and color to provide a sentiment and finish the design. It is wrapped all the way around the card front, providing a sentiment inside the card, too.

 

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

Happy Thanksgivings to our American friends and safe travels if you are on the road this week!

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Freshly Made Sketches #612

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #612!

The super talented Clean Team designer Linda Callahan has provided a fabulous, classic sketch for us this week! It was just perfect for pausing the Christmas card production and adding a much needed masculine birthday card to my stash.

The Memory Box Graceful Stag Collage die is cut from a piece of holiday tartan paper that was trimmed to size first. It is adhered to a Sizzix 3D Leaf Pattern embossed panel and a second, darker green panel is embossed and staggered behind it.

The Poppystamps Birthday Blowout sentiment is stamped on a MFT Mod Rectangle die cut that is adhered to a second, slightly offset dark green die cut to finish this super simple design.

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

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Freshly Made Sketches #611

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #611!

This fabulous layered sketch from Clean Team designer Jen Mitchell had me pulling out the Memory Box Star of Wonder die while I let a few ideas roll around in my head. My plan to use metallic gold paper disappeared when I started playing with a holographic silver star washi. 

The washi is adhered to white cardstock scraps before the star and fishtail flag are die cut.  A very deep blue Indigo cardstock is used for the card base and the rounded edge panel. This smaller panel is embossed with stars.

An Ali Edwards December Daily 2019 Christmas Phrases sentiment is silver embossed on a white panel before the edges are inked.

There is an extra special challenge to getting a good photo that balances the dark texture on the deep blue panel with bright shine of the washi.

I hope you check out the amazing Clean Team cards, along with another Challenge #600 winner and guest design this week, Laurie Unger, and play along with us this week at Freshly Made Sketches!

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie