Freshly Made Sketches #663

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #663!

Awesome Clean Team designer, Jen Mitchell, is behind our fabulous sketch this week! I'm pretty sure it is because I've been on the hunt for a new belt that I immediately saw the sketch as a belt buckle and couldn't unsee it, so took a bit of creative liberty with the sketch for my design. I was kind of excited to play with older supplies after deciding to create a knit Santa suit.

A 4x11" piece of red cardstock is scored at 4 and 8 inches from the left to create the card base, with the left and right panels overlapping for a gatefold. The two side pieces were then embossed with a Lifestyle Crafts knit texture for a bit of interest.  Again digging into older supplies, a large scalloped border die trims the front side panel so that you can see the right side of his suit when the card is closed. The right panel hidden underneath the closed left panel is also given the same scalloped finish.

A square frame die is used to cut the glitter paper buckle and a stitched die is used for the belt. I debated leaving off a sentiment but in the end decided to add the sweet heat embossed Kerri Bradford Bundled Up sentiment.

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

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Freshly Made Sketches #662

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #662!

Our talented challenge leader, Jen Timko, has given us a fun landscape sketch to work with this week. I've been sorting and purging in the office and came across a set of die cuts made when crafting with a friend a couple years ago. Yes, you read that right, and they immediately went on my desk in the "use these" pile. I knew as soon as I saw the landscape orientation one of these Middle Eastern cityscape die cuts would be perfect.

A panel is inked with shades of blue and the Mama Elephant Merry Christmas Wishes sentiment and Poppystamps Believe stars are heat embossed in gold before adding the cityscape die cut. I really wish I knew the brand to share for the die cuts. If you recognize, please let me know!

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 #661

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #661!

I'm excited to be hosting the challenge this week! My sketch was created around a Tim Holtz Bowtie die I have had sitting unused for at least a year. Remember, you can use the sketch as a background element or the main image of your design. I saw a wrapped gift first, but also think it would be fun to play with plaids or use the three smaller pieces to frame something in the largest panel. I can't wait to see the gallery fill with your creative ideas!

A piece of designer paper is used to provide a gift wrapped base for the aqua bow. As I was putting the bow together, a snowflake die cut kept calling to be used and adds a bit of interest to the design. The last step was to make a tag with the liquid platinum embossed MFT sentiment and Avery Elle die. It was tied off with dark gray twine and slipped under the bow layers.

 

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

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Freshly Made Sketches #660

Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #660!

 

Clean Team designer Judy Rozema is the creative mind behind a fabulous sketch this week! I pulled out my Savvy Deer Head die almost immediately and then was a little stumped on what to do with the lovely scroll element in the sketch.

It was a slow work in progress but I love the final design! For fun and in a little nod to the elegant scroll, the deer was cut from glitter paper before being mounted on a woodgrain embossed oval panel. A number of leaves were cut from various shades of green cardstock and layered at the bottom of the oval. The heat embossed MFT Bitty Holiday Wishes sentiment finishes 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 #659

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #659!

Clean Team member Amy O'Neill is the talented designer behind this great sketch! There are so many images and shapes that could be used in place of the circles. I literally went in circles through my balloon, star and ornament images before settling on this sweet line of baubles.

The Lawn Fawn Simply Celebrate Winter image is colored with Copic markers and coated with clear Nuvo drops to mimic the shine of glass ornaments. This slim strip is popped up over a panel stamped with a Lawn Fawn Deck the Halls sentiment and embossed with a Sizzix 3D Leaf Pattern folder. A few leafy die cuts add a bit more texture and detail to the design.

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

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Freshly Made Sketches #658

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #658!

I love that there are so many ways to use the trio of panels in Clean Team designer Narelle Farrugia's fabulous sketch! I decided to layer rectangles with snowflakes and place a large sentiment die cut over it all.

All the snowflakes are cut from a heavy vellum and scattered over the rectangles before the layered PTI Christmas Cheer sentiment is added. A few snowflake sequins finish the design with a bit of sparkle.

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

Freshly Made Sketches #657

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #657!

Fall leaves and colors were calling to me this week and I took advantage of the amazing Clean Team designer, Karren Johnson's sketch to play with embossed texture and pretty patterned paper.

I was originally planning to replace the tag with just one of the Lawn Fawn Stitched Leaves before deciding to give it a bit more presence with an MFT Blueprint Tag. A little twine added more texture and interest to the design.

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

Freshly Made Sketches #656

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #656!

Our sketch this week is from Clean Team designer, CéciIe Ribon, the queen of elegant and whimsical designs. I had an immediate idea for the center rectangle element and am pretty pleased with the way it turned out.

An older MFT Christmas Text background is stamped with Versamark ink and heat embossed with clear embossing powder on a white panel. Light green ink is blended over a rectangle area of the text so that the words pop. An MFT Joy die is cut from green and white cardstock, layered and adhered onto the center of the inked area.

A few Paper Smooches Holly die cuts and red glitter enamel dots finish 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 #655

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #655!

Clean Team designer Jennifer Brum has given us a super sweet sketch the week! I pulled out a number of border stamps and Copic markers before deciding to go with the pumpkins from an older Pretty Pink Posh Fall Borders stamp set.

After coloring the pumpkins, they are fussy cut leaving one off on the end to fit the space. The Concord & 9th Lace Leaf sentiment is stamped on the blue gingham panel next, then lengths of green and beige twine are adhered along the back of the pumpkins. Finally, the pumpkins are popped up on the stamped panel.

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

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Freshly Made Sketches #654

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #654!

How fun is this great sketch from Clean Team Designer Jen Mitchell! I was going back and forth between party hats and trees for the triangle shapes. As you can see, trees won this week.

I cut and layered the Tim Holtz Sizzix Forest Shadows dies, trimming them to replicate the triangle shape and fit on an Ellen Hutson Abstract Mountain cover plate. The front trees were cut from a left over embossed panel giving a little extra texture.

The sentiment is pieced together from a couple of Kerri Bradford stamp sets: GreaterYellowstone and Uncharted Territory.

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

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Freshly Made Sketches #653

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #653!

I was so excited to see Clean Team Designer, Kim Singdahlsen's fabulous sketch this week! As the owner of far too many oversized sentiment stamps and dies, the biggest challenge was deciding which one to use.

It wasn't long before a sentiment from Mama Elephant Peace on Earth stamp set made it to the top of my pile.

Layers of pink ink are painted, splattered and blotted on a piece of watercolor paper before the sentiment is stamped with Versamark ink and heat embossed with Ranger gold embossing powder. A scatter of sequins adds a bit more "bright" to the design.

The finished panel is mounted on gold cardstock and popped up on the card base.

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

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Freshly Made Sketches #652

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #652!

What a fun sketch Clean Team Designer, Linda Callahan, has given us this week! I had no shortage of ideas, but did have a shortage of time which ruled out a couple options. 

A favorite older Memory Box Sussex Snowflake die provided the circular element and is layered with a Mama Elephant Jingle Greetings sentiment white embossed on vellum. Glitter and soft texture are provided by a strip of Lawn Fawn Pixie Dust paper and the soft aqua fiber. 

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 #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

Freshly Made Sketches #647

 Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #647!

I saw a quilt in super talented Clean Team Designer Karren Johnson's fabulous sketch this week so that had me poking through my stash of patterned paper pads. Wanting something bright and happy, I paired a couple of Jen Hadfield pieces with a green gingham from My Favorite Things.

The papers were cut with stitched rectangle dies with the intention to adjust them to fit together to replicate the sketch. When I laid them out, I liked the way they overlapped and decided to adher them in place as is.

The Ellen Hutson Oval Hoops die is cut from Lawn Fawn woodgrain paper and adhered over an oval based stamped with an Avery Elle Sending You sentiment. This sentiment hoop is popped up over the rectangle pieces. A scatter of sequins finish off the design.

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

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie