Freshly Made Sketches #651

Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #651!

Our super talented Clean Team leader, Jen Timko, is behind the fun asymmetrical sketch this week! I went through so many ideas and thought I'd settled on feathers and a sympathy card, when I came across the Papertrey Ink Leaf Silhouette dies (yup, I tag and use them as feathers as well as leaves) and switched to a masculine leaning birthday card.

The large die is cut several times to give me options for color blocking the finished leaf. An older PTI Birthday Bash sentiment is stamped on a piece of patterned paper, die cut and inked to blend better with the other colors. The design didn't feel finished until a few stitched leaves leftover from another project were layered under the large focal point leaf.

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

I'm linking this card to Seize the Birthday #290 challenge in the Anything Goes category.

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Freshly Made Sketches #650

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #650!

Our fabulous sketch this week is from the super talented Clean Team Designer, Judy Rozema! There are so many ways to go with this trio of horizontal panels and I ended up combining two ideas. The first was using an ombre color block and the second was to take advantage of a never before used  MFT  Tri-Frame Cover Up die. 

The MFT Cloud stencil is used to ink clouds onto a white panel in an ombre pattern and then cut with the tri-frame die.  A second frame die is cut and the outline only is adhered to a white panel. The white heat embossed MFT Deepest Sympathy sentiment is added to darkest blue inked panel before all three ombre pieces are popped up over the openings in the white frame.

A white Penny Black Bashful Flower die cut is draped over the three panels to finish the design.

I hope you check out the terrific Clean Team designs at Freshly Made Sketches this week!

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Freshly Made Sketches #649

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #649!

I adore this fabulous sketch from Clean Team designer, Amy O'Neill! The horizontal strips had me looking through my washi collections, especially the growing number of Christmas themed washi that I just can't seem to resist.

It was the fun musical Santa tape that made the cut first and then a couple more tapes from the same Simple Stories Simple Vintage Dear Santa set were added to complete the horizontal element. The tapes were adhered to white cardstock and overlapped before being adhered to the snowflake embossed panel.

A snowflake die cut is embellished with Baker's Twine and a trio of jingle bells before being popped up on the panel to finish the design.

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 #648

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #648!

So many ideas were spinning in my head for this fabulous sketch from the queen of layered designs, Narelle Farrugia! The butterflies won out as I decided to make a brighter than normal (for me) sympathy card.

Each butterfly is made up by stacking two Poppystamps Cheviot Butterfly die cuts with a Poppystamps Delaney Butterfly die cut. The vellum Cheviots are colored with Copic markers for a rainbow effect and topped with the white Delaney butterflies. 

A panel is embossed with the Lifestyle Crafts large dot embossing folder and the MFT From All of Us sentiment strip added along the bottom first, then three white Cheviot butterflies are adhered to the panel. The colored butterflies are adhered in the center only with a glue dot so the wings can lift.

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

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie