Freshly Made Sketches #435

Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #435!

I loved the clean lines of Kim's great sketch this week and knew it would be perfect for a Father's Day card. This needs to get in the mail quickly as it took five weeks for my dad's birthday card to arrive last month!?

The Stamp Market Skinny Upper Alphabet die cuts are paired with MFT All About Dad sentiments for this card. The Stamp Market 1/2 inch Quick Strips are a little wider than the sketch to comfortably fit the heat embossed sentiment.

The Clean Team has terrific cards this week. I hope you check them out and join us!

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

CASology Challenge #368: PLANT

Welcome to CASology Challenge #368!

Any plant idea works for this week, but with my husband adding fruit trees and planting away in the vegetable garden, I started thinking about growing pineapples which led to my card design.

The Lawn Fawn Aloha stamp set has a sweet pineapple and perfect sentiment for these Stay Home times where I'm pining away for so many family and friends. The pineapple is stamped, colored with Copic markers and fussy cut before being added to the panel. A trio of enamel dots adds interest as does tilting the panel on the yellow card base.

The design team has fabulous cards this week!

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: Vicky!

Sponsor: STAMPlorations!

We are looking forward to seeing how PLANT inspires you - just remember to keep it Clean & Simple! This is a two week challenge, so you have until 9 AM Monday, May 25th (CMT) to link your card to the CASology blog.

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie

Freshly Made Sketches #434

Welcome to Freshly Made Sketches #434!

Do you have favorite dies that you go back to again and again? The Poppystamps Boddington Tree Border die is one of mine. I love it's clean and modern lines and thought it would be a nice fit for this great sketch from Linda Callahan.

A rectangle stencil is used to ink the blue sky and then the green grass panels first before adhering a five tree portion of the die cut. A few of the tree sections are removed to let the blue sky peek through and a Hero Arts To Seize of Not To Seize sentiment added to finish this card.

The Clean Team has terrific designs to inspire you this week! I hope you will play along.

Thanks for stopping by,

Jacquie