Freshly Made Sketches #408

Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #408!

This versatile sketch comes to us from Clean Team Designer Jennifer Timko! I have been playing around with The Stamp Market Love & Cookies stamps and dies and decided the rectangular panel would become a cookie gift box.

The cookies were all stamped, cut and colored with Copic markers. The blue circles were then stamped and heat embossed with a snowflake and all the cookies coated with Glossy Accents to give them a royal icing finish with micro bead "nonpareils" added to the stars and trees.

A couple of layers of the MFT frame create the edge of the gift box and tissue paper is added to the center with the cookies layered on top.

With this stamp set out, I decided to play along with the Twofer Card Challenge #21: Sweets, and used the star cookie to make a card to go along with a new baby gift. The baby we were eagerly anticipating a couple of weeks ago has arrived and is a boy!

The star is stamped, clear embossed on watercolor paper, colored with Zig markers and then die cut.  A panel is also lightly watercolored before the MFT Beautiful Baby sentiment is added along with a scatter of star confetti under the popped up die cuts.

Here is a look at the two cards together.

The Clean Team has fabulous cards this week! Make sure you check them out at Freshly Made Sketches and join in on the challenge.

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Freshly Made Sketches #407

Welcome To Freshly Made Sketches #407!

The talented Lee Ann Barrett designed a fabulous sketch for us this week! I played with a few stamp sets before settling on PTI Spruce & Sprigs for the greenery and Lawn Fawn Deck the Halls for the sentiment.

The white panel is embossed with a Tim Holtz Holly embossing folder for interest and texture before the die cuts are layered and the sentiment popped up over them.

Check out all the amazing Clean Team cards and play along with us this week!

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

CASology Challenge 354: FOG

Welcome to Week 354 at CASology!

The first thing that came to my mind with FOG as our cue word was vellum, as it mimics the translucent nature of fog, which led to cutting a pair of Concord & 9th Give Thanks vellum die cuts.

The die cuts are placed over and under an MFT sentiment strip and finished with a trio of enamel dots.

Check out the design team cards for more great ideas!

Deidre Payne

Jacquie Southas (you are here)

Janet Ribet  

Jen Wills

Joyce Mehrberg

Karen Haman

Melissa Chipperfield 

Milka Gubo

Nancy Elrick

Sue Symens

Sponsor: STAMPlorations!

We are looking forward to seeing how FOG inspires you - just remember to keep it Clean & Simple! We are back to a THREE WEEK CHALLENGE, so you have until 9 AM Monday, Nov 4th (CMT) to link your card to the CASology blog.

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie