Freshly Made Sketches #420

Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #420!

We have another great sketch from Jen Timko to inspire us this week! I am determined to improve my Copic marker skills this year, so pulled out a sweet Pretty Pink Posh Floral Heart stamp set for the circle element in the design.

I kept my card super simple, just adding a stamped sentiment directly to the panel.

I hope you can join us this week at Freshly Made Sketches!

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Freshly Made Sketches #419

Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #419!

The asymetrical panel in Lee Ann's fun sketch this week had me reaching for the PTI Tipped Top dies along with my new rainbow dies from The Stamp Market to make a fun Valentine that is not too lovey-dovey.

For a little extra interest and texture, a couple of the rainbow bands are popped up with foam adhesive and the rest adhered directly on the heart embossed panel. The MFT Essential Sentiments sentiment flag is added next and then the PTI open heart die cut to finish the card.

Check out the fabulous cards from the Clean Team and join in the fun this week at Freshly Made Sketches!

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

CASology Challenge 360: CRYSTAL

Welcome to CASology!

When I saw the cue word this week, I flashed back to childhood Saturday morning chores that included dusting a crystal chandelier and couldn't move past that image. I was sure I had a chandelier stamp somewhere in my collection although nothing surfaced. What I did find was a piece of an old transparency and perfect MFT Make A Wish sentiment to create this shaker birthday card.

I can't tell you how thrilled I was that the MFT Color Drops dies allowed me to highlight a single chandelier and create the yellow frame. The shaker is filled with a super reflective, course glitter.

The design team has some amazing cards for this challenge!

Deepti Stephens

Deidre Payne

Jacquie Southas (you are here)

Jen Wills

Joyce Mehrberg

Karen Haman

Melissa Chipperfield 

Milka Gubo

Nancy Elrick

Sandie Munro

Sue Symens

Guest Designer: Jan C.!

Sponsor: STAMPlorations!

We are looking forward to seeing how CHANDELIER inspires you - just remember to keep it Clean & Simple! This is a two week challenge, so you have until 9 AM Monday, February 3rd (CMT) to link your card to the CASology blog.

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Freshly Made Sketches #418

Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches!

I am so excited to see what you do with the sketch I designed this week! My original idea was to use the big panel for an oversized sentiment, but then I saw new The Stamp Market Oh So Lovely stamps and dies and had to have them. Not only did I have to have them, I had to play with them immediately and love the way this bouquet fits on the curved edge panel.

The flowers were stamped in various shades of pink with a touch of Nuvo drops added to the centers. While they dried, the die cut greenery and PTI Tiny Tag with an Avery Elle Thanks a Bunch sentiment were wrapped and tied with bright pink twine and popped up on the panel. Once dry, the flowers were tucked and layered to create the bouquet. 

I hope you check out the beautiful cards from the Clean Team this week and have time to play along with us at Freshly Made Sketches!

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Twofer Card Challenge #23: Hearts Guest Designer

Twofer Card Challenge #23: Hearts!

After winning the Unconventional category for Twofer Challenge #22: Sweets, Darnell invited me to Guest Design along with the fabulous Twofer Design Team for the January challenge. Not only is this the first challenge for the new year (and possibly a new decade depending on where you land in that debate), it is the 2nd Blogaversary of the challenge, which means PRIZES! Please check out Twofer Card Challenge for all the details!!

I scrolled through any and everything heart related on my Evernote inventory a few times before narrowing my supplies down to the Papertrey Ink From the Heart dies and My Favorite Things Essential Sentiments stamps to create Valentine and Thank You cards for the challenge.

I've wanted to use the Queen & Co toppings in a shaker card for a while, so used three of the dies to create a trio of windows for the pink, red and white toppings.

A white embossed sentiment on a bright pink banner is all that is needed to finish this one.

It was the sentiment that caught my eye and had me playing with a few different ideas using gold paper and inks for a Thank You card.

I wasn't getting the look I wanted until I remembered an older Papertrey Ink stamp set and was thrilled to see this design come together once I inked the large Brushed Off brush stroke with Versamark and heat embossed it in the luscious Ranger gold embossing powder. 

The medium heart is die cut from the gold "paint" and layered with the medium die cut heart leftover from the Valentine card, then popped back into place and the sentiment strip added above it.

I am excited to see what you create this month!

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Freshly Made Sketches #417

Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #417!

I hope you had a great break and are as excited as I am to get back into a regular crafting routine. The first sketch for the New Year is from the talented Judy Rozema! With Christmas behind us, I'm ready to move onto Valentine's Day cards.

The MFT Abstract Heart die is cut from three different colored cardstock scraps and reassembled using the red outline as a base before being popped up on a white square panel. The panel is adhered to a heart embossed panel and card base before the selectively colored PTI Choose Joy sentiment is added.  This is one of those cards that took more time to think about what I wanted to do than to actually put it together.

The Clean Team has fabulous cards waiting to inspire you at Freshly Made Sketches. I hope you are able to play along with us this week!

I'm also linking this card to Time Out Challenge #152, inspired by the heart plate and the lovely white on white brick texture of the fireplace, which lead to my embossed heart background.

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

CASology Challenge #359: REPEAT

Welcome to CASology Challenge #359!

Are you ready for a new year of crafting fun?! There are so many ways to use this cue word from repeating an image, sentiment or even previous design to being inspired by repeat events (birthdays, anniversaries, etc). I didn't get any further than this cute sentiment from a new to me stamp company, Paper Rose Studio from Australia.

The image was stamped first and then the sentiment masked to stamp in the two colors. A rainbow of Copic markers provided the color. A super quick and easy card!

The new year brings a couple changes to the design team: Janet Ribet is stepping down and Deepti Stephens and Sandie Munro joining us. I hope you will stop by to say hi!

Deepti Stephens

Deidre Payne

Jacquie Southas (you are here)

Jen Wills

Joyce Mehrberg

Karen Haman

Melissa Chipperfield 

Milka Gubo

Nancy Elrick

Sandie Munro

Sue Symens

Guest Designer: Claire!

We are looking forward to seeing how REPEAT inspires you - just remember to keep it Clean & Simple! This is a two week challenge, so you have until 9 AM Monday, January 20th (CMT) to link your card to the CASology blog.

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie