Freshly Made Sketches #513

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #513!

Clean Team designer Jennifer Brum is the creative genius behind the sketch this week! There are so many great images that are perfect for the circle element, especially if you are knee deep in holiday cards like me.

The MFT Snow Globe sentiment is stamped on the white panel first, then snow embossed and cut with a wonky stitched rectangle die. 

The bird pair from MFT Tweet Holidays stamp set is perfect for the circle element. The image is colored with Copic markers, fussy cut and popped up over a black sentiment strip. 

The Clean Team has fabulous designs this week. I hope you check them out and play along with us at Freshly Made Sketches this week.

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Freshly Made Sketches #512

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #512!

Clean Team designer Kim Singdahlsen has given us the sweetest sketch this week! I pulled out the smaller  Memory Box Star of Wonder die to use for the tree element and thought about what I wanted to do with the horizontal lines for a few days. 

I have a bowl on my desk that holds little stars left over from other projects and realized there was enough gold shimmer bits to create an anchoring line for the big star.  I'd already watercolored the splash of purpley blue sky to back the big star so ran a light touch of color to add a couple horizontal lines. Once the panel was dry, the PTI December Typed Words sentiment is split between the top two lines and the metallic gold star popped up last.

The Clean Team has amazing cards this week. Check them out at Freshly Made Sketches and play along with us!

Thanks for stopping,

Jacquie

Freshly Made Sketches #511

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #511!

Clean Team designer Linda Callahan has given us a super sketch to work with this week! I decided to pair the negative space of a Memory Box Snowflake Joy die cut with patterned paper to make a my center panel. 

The Joy panel is popped up over the pretty plaid and then the full snowflake die cut is popped back into the opening. A Kerri Bradford Studios Wonderland sentiment is heat embossed on a scrap of red paper from the same paper pad to add a little extra layer and interest to the design.

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

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Freshly Made Sketches #510

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #510!

The fabulous Jen Mitchell designed our sketch this week and a quick glance through my stamps had me reaching for the Pretty Pink Posh Winter Wreath as the circle element.

Somehow I ended up coloring a nontraditional Christmas rainbow of colors with Copic markers, so went with my favorite aqua cardstock for the horizontal band. The heat embossed sentiment fits perfectly in the middle of the wreath.

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

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

CASology Challenge #397

 Welcome to CASology Challenge #397!

We have a fun new word for you to play with this month! 

I went looking for an older Teresa Collins paper pad that I knew had rows of the prettiest red typewriters and paired it with an MFT Well Hello sentiment.

We have a couple changes on the CASology Design Team, with Milka moving on and Åsa joining us.

Åsa Johannson

Deidre Payne

Jacquie Southas (you are here)

Jen Wills

Joyce Mehrberg

Melissa Chipperfield 

Nancy Elrick

Sandie Munro

Sue Symens

Guest Designer: Claire!

 

We are looking forward to seeing how TYPE inspires you - just remember to keep it Clean & Simple! This is a month long challenge, so you have until 9 AM Monday, December 6th (CMT) to link your card to the CASology blog.

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie